Can Nuns/Sisters touch and distribute Communion Hosts?

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Does the distribution of Holy Communion Hosts by sister/nuns legitimate under Church rule?
 
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How come distribution of Communion hosts by Eucharistic lay ministers not legitimate?
 
I read that Netherlands started these distribution by Eucharistic lay ministers in the 1960s without the official approval of the Church. Even Vatican II did not approve of it,
 
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Sisters, nuns, religious brothers, monks, deacons, lay people. All legitimate.
 
TheLittleLady said:
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Athrunzala:
distribution by Eucharistic lay ministers
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“Extraordinary Ministers of the Holy Eucharist” is the title used by the Church. EMHC is the abbreviation.
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I think you meant to say “Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion,” not “Eucharist.”
 
Yah. They have more authority to do it than lay people. As in if there is sister or nuns at mass they should be distributing before lay people are.
 
Prodigal1984 said:
Yah. They have more authority to do it than lay people. As in if there is sister or nuns at mass they should be distributing before lay people are.
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This part is not correct. Sisters/Nuns and laypersons are equal in this regard.

Everything else noted by the others above is accurate.
 
Mi_Rose said:
That is because nuns/sisters are laypeople.
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And also because EMHCs are commissioned by their bishop to function in that particular parish. Nuns/sisters don’t automatically bypass this training and commissioning just because they are nuns/sisters.
 
I would suspect that nuns in a cloistered environment aren’t subject to the training / commissioning requirements though.
 
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I would suspect that nuns in a cloistered environment aren’t subject to the training / commissioning requirements though.
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Oh, right, I was just assuming a misuse of the word., and we were talking about a parish situation.

OP, do you mean that some nuns you know who are cloistered, like Carmelites, for instance, have been told they cannot distribute Holy Communion even in their own chapel?
 
Prodigal1984 said:
Yah. They have more authority to do it than lay people. As in if there is sister or nuns at mass they should be distributing before lay people are.
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Like religious brothers and many monks, sisters and nuns are lay people.
 
Can the ordinary Baptized Catholics like my father and mother be called laypersons?
 
Athrunzala said:
Can the ordinary Baptized Catholics like my father and mother be called laypersons?
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Yes, because your mother is certainly not ordained Catholic clergy, and presumably neither is your father, unless he is a duly ordained Deacon.
 
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