THE VIRGIN CARED WITH CARE AND LOVE THAT NOT A DROP OF THE BLOOD OF HER SON, JESUS ​​CHRIST, GOD, WAS LOST, AND NOW THE CONSECRATED PARTICLES ARE ALLOWED TO FALL WITH COMMUNION IN THE HAND

 

Tertullian*: “…we take scrupulously care that nothing from the chalice or the bread may fall to the ground.”

Saint Hippolytus: “…each one be careful… that no fragment falls and is lost, because it is the Body of Christ that must be eaten by the faithful and not despised.”

Origen*: “With what caution and veneration, when you receive the Body of the Lord, you preserve it, so that nothing falls or anything of the consecrated gift is lost.”

Saint Cyril: “…receive it, taking care that nothing of it is lost, for tell me: if someone were to give you some gold filings, would you not guard them with all diligence, trying not to lose any of them?

Will you not, then, take much greater care that not a single crumb of what is more precious than gold and precious stones falls to you?”

THE VIRGIN MARY DURING THE FLAGELLATION OF HER SON JESUS ​​CHRIST, GOD.

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (visions and revelations): "When she came to, she saw the executioners carrying her Son away, torn to pieces. Jesus wiped his bloody eyes to see his Mother. She painfully raised her hands to him and followed with her eyes the bloody footprints of his feet. Then I saw Mary and Magdalene leave the people and approach the place of the scourging. Surrounded and hidden by the other women and other good people who gathered around, they threw themselves on the ground beside the pillar and with those cloths wiped away every drop they could find of the holy blood of Jesus."

*Even those who fell into error proclaimed respect and care for the consecrated particles.