Communion at International Eucharistic Congress

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It’s not very Catholic at all 😦

I think there was a misprint somewhere. After day two of the coverage offered by EWTN, the “Eucharistic” Congress should have been named “Ecumenical” Congress.
 
TheDoctor said:
Does RS apply to all the rites or just the Latin ones? As it was only one EMHC I was wondering if self-intinction was permitted in Eastern Catholic rites and if the EMHC was an Eastern Catholic and if that could explain it (I am grasping at straws because I can’t believe an EMHC could not be trained that this if forbidden in the Latin Rite).
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It’ pretty much impossible for the laity to self intinct at a Byzantine liturgy. The Holy Eucharist is already intincted by the priest before it leaves the altar

Here is a nice video

youtube.com/watch?v=3NwDYCZgEag
 
ByzCathCantor said:
The laity never handle the Most Pure Body and Precious Blood in the Eastern Rites.

Further, while laymen can be appointed Extrardinary Ministers, it is rare in practice. I imagine even more rare in Ireland (although there are a growing number of Eastern Catholics in the country).

In this specific, visible instance, it should also be noted that the EMHC is standing next to a member of the clergy while this self-intinction is taking place.
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Thank you for the information on our Eastern Rite brothers and sisters.
 
Kevin812 said:
It’s not very Catholic at all 😦

I think there was a misprint somewhere. After day two of the coverage offered by EWTN, the “Eucharistic” Congress should have been named “Ecumenical” Congress.
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Ecumenism is one, very important, part of this year’s Congress…🙂
 
FAH said:
I watched the whole of the opening IEC Mass at home. For about 2 hours before Mass began there was a kind of concert and Mass eventually began. The Cardinal’s homily was good but there were many appalling things like self-intinction, the use of EMHCs when apparently 1/3 of the College of Cardinals was present and the bad vestments. You had to cringe when the “altar girls” processed around with their bowls of incense above their head, attired in bed sheets. And the emphasis was too much on our communion with one another. What about our God who feeds us with his very flesh!?

I was watching a video of the congress from 1932. What a far cry it is from what happened in Dublin on Sunday.
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I’m so glad this thread was started. I watched this on tv a couple nights ago and could not believe I was seeing the self intinction going on. Now I know I’m not losing my mind.
 
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