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At our chapel in school, we had to consume the hosts before the Easter holiday started, so I was asked to help consume the hosts, in the form of a communion service and then the distribution of the hosts. Having never been to one of these services I did not know what to expect, but was rather shocked to see that after the our Father, the female lay school chaplain did the whole ’ behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins…’ part of the mass while holding the host up like the priest. Is this normal and allowed, seems very priest like to me, but as I said I have never attended one of these before. Thanks in advance.
 
Providing that she is a commissioned EMHC, then yes it is allowed at a Communion service. It would not be allowed at Mass.
 
Hi Catholic Duck!
There is a specific “liturgy” that we have to follow starting with a penitential rite, gospel reading, The Our Father , distribution of Communion and dismissal. What your lay minister did was correct. God Bless!
 
Catholic_Duck said:
At our chapel in school, we had to consume the hosts before the Easter holiday started, so I was asked to help consume the hosts, in the form of a communion service and then the distribution of the hosts. Having never been to one of these services I did not know what to expect, but was rather shocked to see that after the our Father, the female lay school chaplain did the whole ’ behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins…’ part of the mass while holding the host up like the priest. Is this normal and allowed, seems very priest like to me, but as I said I have never attended one of these before. Thanks in advance.
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While technically correct I’m wondering why a man couldn’t have done it to avoid confusion…?
 
So what parts of the mass can be said outside of mass by a lay person in a service?
It seems odd.that a lay person can elevate the host like the priest does.
 
Catholic_Duck said:
So what parts of the mass can be said outside of mass by a lay person in a service?
It seems odd.that a lay person can elevate the host like the priest does.
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Basically the whole of the Liturgy of the Word (except “The Lord be with you”), the Our Father and the “Behold the Lamb of God”.
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
While technically correct I’m wondering why a man couldn’t have done it to avoid confusion…?
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Perhaps, as in many things concerning local Catholic parishes, there were no men to offer themselves for service.
 
Tim_D said:
Perhaps, as in many things concerning local Catholic parishes, there were no men to offer themselves for service.
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I ended up at one of those services once and as I wasn’t disposed properly to receive, I didn’t see the point of sticking around.
 
Catholic_Duck said:
So what parts of the mass can be said outside of mass by a lay person in a service?
It seems odd.that a lay person can elevate the host like the priest does.
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Let’s be clear. It was not a mass. You keep referring to it as a mass, as part of a mass, etc.

It is NOT a mass. it is a liturgy all its own.

No “parts of the mass” are “said outside of mass”. Outside of mass, it’s NOT MASS.

Prayers used in the liturgy of the mass are also used in other liturgies, including what is commonly referred to as “a communion service”. This liturgy has its own rubrics, and the leader of the service followed them.
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
While technically correct I’m wondering why a man couldn’t have done it to avoid confusion…?
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How would having a man avoid confusion? It would still be a Communion Service and the person elevating the Host, saying “Behold the Lamb of God…”, and self-communicating per the rubrics would still not be a priest.
 
so what is a communion service and how does it differ from the Mass?
 
Communion services are supposed to be used whenever there is no realistic possibility of the faithful attending Mass on that Sunday (not simply that no Mass is available within their parish that Sunday, but that there is no realistic prospect that the faithful could travel elsewhere to attend Mass). That is why this facility was introduced.
 
Brendan_64 said:
Communion services are supposed to be used whenever there is no realistic possibility of the faithful attending Mass on that Sunday (not simply that no Mass is available within their parish that Sunday, but that there is no realistic prospect that the faithful could travel elsewhere to attend Mass). That is why this facility was introduced.
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but almost everybody goes to church on Easter.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I thought the poster went to a communion service on Good Friday?
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No, he attended a Communion Service sometime before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (so Wednesday? Holy Thursday?). They did a Communion Service in order to consume all the Hosts that were in their school chapel’s Tabernacle, since it’s supposed to be empty for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper.
 
Phemie said:
Perhaps they were having a Mass of the Lord’s Supper in their school, or more likely, they didn’t want to have Hosts in the Tabernacle over the holidays when no one would be in school.
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But why couldn’t they be taken to a nearby church?
 
paperwight66 said:
But why couldn’t they be taken to a nearby church?
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That is a good question. But then the nearby church may have been in the same predicament of having to consume the Hosts. Perhaps she was doing what she was instructed to do by someone in authority over her.
 
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