Can you name be said when you're given communion?

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Joan_M said:
I am so sick of people using this foolishness to blow off a liturgical abuse. Find me any - just one - place in the rubrics, the GIRM where anything at all is forbidden. The rubrics (the words written in red) and the GIRM tell us what to do. They do not tell us what we should not do.

Whoever does this is wrong.
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Otherwise people will bring their dogs and cats to Church with them.
 
Joan_M said:
I am so sick of people using this foolishness to blow off a liturgical abuse. Find me any - just one - place in the rubrics, the GIRM where anything at all is forbidden. The rubrics (the words written in red) and the GIRM tell us what to do. They do not tell us what we should not do.

Whoever does this is wrong.
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The rubrics doesn’t say we should be friendly or compassionate. Should we avoid this? :cool:

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KatieD said:
I just started as an EMHC at my parish, and we received a memo from our Director of Liturgy telling us that we are to state the name of a person if we know it when giving them Holy Communion.
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Is Rome aware of this new pastoral need for Catholics?
 
JimR-OCDS said:
The rubrics doesn’t say we should be friendly or compassionate.
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I think they should. I see an awful lot of unfriendliness when people get into their cars and cut one another off in the parking lot after Mass. 😉
 
coeyannie said:
How about dump half of the EMHC, since they are not needed, nor are they “extraordinary”.
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I do think that Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are OVERUSED, in order to speed along the distribution of the Eucharist during Mass. Heaven forbid the Mass should last 5 mins more! This is considered abuse of this service by the GIRM.

However, in this case* extraordinary* is used in the sense that it is an **extra **minister to the ORDINARY Minister, which Is The Priest. In our language that seems odd, I know… we think of extraordinary as fantastic or something. But they do not mean that in this usage.
 
I have experienced this from priests and from EMHC’s. And have heard it from time to time. Usually the priest or deacon or EMHC is so pre-occupied with performing the ritual correctly that they don’t have time for this nicety.
 
Very interesting thread. Haven’t had communion for close to 30 years (and I’m still debating about returning to the Church), this name issue is a new one for me.

However, I do have a question. I read in one post where, if names are being used, and the priest or EMHC doesn’t know yours, you should ‘introduce’ yourself. Is that actually being done? :eek: Seems to me that distracts from the holiness of the moment.
 
Beachcomber said:
Very interesting thread. Haven’t had communion for close to 30 years (and I’m still debating about returning to the Church), this name issue is a new one for me.

However, I do have a question. I read in one post where, if names are being used, and the priest or EMHC doesn’t know yours, you should ‘introduce’ yourself. Is that actually being done? :eek: Seems to me that distracts from the holiness of the moment.
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I think that was for the Eastern Orthodox.
 
It’s really very simple. Having communion ministers use the names of people they know well enough to think they can or should use their first name, creates two classes of people: the named and the unnamed. This is utterly counter to Catholicism’s view of the equality of all who approach to receive

And no, those who object to this innovation aren’t “psychotic”, and they aren’t unworthy of Communion, despite Jim’s outrageous accusations and labels.
 
I think the best way to have the EMHC stop saying your name is to tell them it makes you uncomfortable, or better yet, tell the priest.
 
paramedicgirl said:
I think the best way to have the EMHC stop saying your name is to tell them it makes you uncomfortable, or better yet, tell the priest.
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Nah, tell them you decided to change your name to Kareem Abdul or something like that. That will at least get their attention. 😃
 
It has happened to me and I have no problem with it. Would Christ acknowledge someone by name? I think so. Why not an alter christus?
 
I don’t see anything wrong with it. I’ve visited parishes where priests have done this, and obviously they didn’t know my name since I was just a visitor. It didn’t bother me at all. I’m not a member of any parish, so I don’t expect priests to ask me who I am. This has been done in every Eastern church I’ve attended. I don’t have any strong feelings about it either way.
 
PoliSciProf said:
It has happened to me and I have no problem with it. Would Christ acknowledge someone by name? I think so. Why not an alter christus?
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If my name were “an alter christus”, I guess I wouldn’t have a problem either. Is that your confirmation name? 😃
 
The two classes of people issue is a distinction without a difference.
 
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