Pharisees

^"6 Now here, I tell you, is something greater than the Temple.
⁷ And if you had understood the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless.
⁸ For the Son of man is master of the Sabbath.'
⁹ He moved on from there and went to their synagogue;
¹⁰ now a man was there with a withered hand. They asked him, 'Is it permitted to cure somebody on the Sabbath day?' hoping for something to charge him with.
¹¹ But he said to them, 'If any one of you here had only one sheep and it fell down a hole on the Sabbath day, would he not get hold of it and lift it out?
¹² Now a man is far more important than a sheep, so it follows that it is permitted on the Sabbath day to do good.'
¹³ Then he said to the man, 'Stretch out your hand.' He stretched it out and his hand was restored, as sound as the other one.
¹⁴ At this the Pharisees went out and began to plot against him, discussing how to destroy him."

Mt 12: 6-14

The Pharisees are so conceited, their hearts are so full of themselves that there is no room left there to the Word of the Lord. Jesus talks about them, the control freak book worms of His time who claim blasphemy by wrongly applying the words of misunderstood texts in order to oppress righteous acts. They are masters of distorting the Word of God. The spiritual children of the Pharisees of our time try to oppress contemplative consumption of the Eucharistic Host by claiming deviation from the prescriptions in the liturgical books. They are also masters of distorting of what they read: they are riding on letters without understanding the Word!

Those who codified the regulations in the liturgical books wanted to prevent accidental misuse of the Sacred Host. Like children taking home the Host to granny or to a little sister who is ill. These things, even with good intention, simply cannot be done. That is why the books say the Host must be consumed immediately after receiving it into your palm. However codifiers never wanted to prevent small communities from administering the Host in the presence of an ordained presbyter, under well controlled circumstances. So the proper understanding should take into consideration the true intention of the codifier.

According to the intent of the codifier the contemplative consumption of the Host during Eucharistic celebrations is not in violation of the code, but it is a variation of the prescribed manner of distributing the Host. Of course, the liturgical books will be refined to reflect the true intent of the codifiers. It is just a matter of time. 

An analogy from science is the relation between the Newtonian and relativistic mechanics, the old and the new: the new relativistic equations describe correctly the behavior of objects moving with extremely large speed, while the old Newtonian framework applies to objects changing positions with regular speed. The new approach refines but does not override the old.

However, Pharisees never truly want to simply grasp and embrace the truth. The more important thing they want is proclaiming their own righteousness on the expense of Jesus Christ and his Church. I somehow cannot see much difference between these two generations of Pharisees, they all turn deaf ears to the Words of the Lord. They claim righteousness exclusively for themselves. But, in fact, their self-righteousness rings hollow as they drift apart from the Lord.