For his part, Brother Josemaría, also from the Santa Bárbara church, indicated that on several occasions they have had to call the faithful to take communion in front of the priest, or to return the sacred form.
Father Nicolás Garzón warned that the person who steals a consecrated host and who commits desecration “is committing a serious, sacrilegious act, which carries with it the (penalty of) excommunication.”
It is not the first time that one of these cases has occurred in the center of Bogotá, so the priests have asked the faithful to pray and monitor the parishes to avoid another sacrilegious theft.