Saving the world, one communicant at a time...

Well, the bishops say it so it must be so...
CNS agrees that Marini II has indeed said that His Holiness will give the Blessed Sacrament on the tongue, to communicants who are kneeling, from now on at papal liturgies.
Will this matter?
Can "reverence" be legislated?
I believe our actions not only express our thoughts and feelings, they cause them.
(It's not only a loose moral climate that causes on-location romances...)
And I do not agree with Himself that we are fighting a losing battle against the the Forces of Dimness, (the unwitting foot-soldiers for Forces of Darkness,) or that we are trying to squeeze toothpaste back in to the tube.
I think a single person, a single incident can be so powerful a witness that the effects will be felt around the world for years to come.
I know post hoc, propter hoc is a fallacy, but I am simple as Fezzik, and things having gone wrong, we need to go back to the fork in the road at which things began going wrong.
Will that cure anything? "Save" anything?
No.
But it will give us a bit of solid ground on which to stand, while we contemplate how best to avoid the Fire Swamp, and Liturgists of Unusual Size, in our journey to the Kingdom.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20080626.htm
Vatican: Receiving Eucharist kneeling will be norm at papal liturgies
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling before the pope will become the norm at papal liturgies, said the Vatican's liturgist.
While current norms allow the faithful to receive the Eucharist in the hand while standing, Pope Benedict XVI has indicated a preference for the more traditional practice, said Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies.
Kneeling and receiving Communion on the tongue highlights "the truth of the real presence (of Christ) in the Eucharist, helps the devotion of the faithful and introduces the sense of mystery more easily," he said in a June 26 interview with the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
Pastorally speaking, he said "it is urgent to highlight and recover" these aspects of the sacredness and mystery of the Eucharist in modern times.
Generally at papal Masses, those receiving Communion from the pope stand and the majority choose to receive on the tongue.