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Not only was the Mass in English, celebrated by a priest facing the congregation, but at Communion time, the sacrament was distributed in both "species" (wine as well as bread) by ministers of both sexes--though some older parishioners, after receiving the consecrated wafer from priestly hands, avoided the female eucharistic minister (a laywoman) offering the chalice.
The Italian papers Friday fronted what they called a snub to Pope John Paul II by China, when it consecrated five "patriotic" Roman Catholic bishops in Beijing without his authorization.
Benedicto Cuesta among others, is that the range took its name from penitente chapels or shrines in its foothills consecrated to the Redeeming Blood of Christ at a time when in the Spanish empire such chapels were so numerous that Blood of Christ was practically synonymous with chapel .
It is a surprisingly modern structure in spite of its design, consecrated in 1913, over 400 years after the city was founded.
The policy of the Roman Catholic Church is that except in extreme circumstances, only Catholics (and sometimes Eastern Orthodox Christians) are invited to consume the consecrated bread and wine at a Catholic Mass.