'It was enough for them to see the Mass being performed.'---reason in mediaeval times for denying ordinary parishioners the Eucharist as frequently as the priests received it, and, I thought, condemned (mildly) as unfair.
Yet when I asked a Roman Catholic whether it was true the laiety could with modern approval receive communion only once a year, as in mediaeval times, he gave the mediaeval excuse as if it was still fresh: 'It was enough to see the Mass...'
Perhaps, being an Anglican, I've got it all wrong about the modern Roman Catholic church and what is still taught from mediaeval times.
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