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[TheMortenBay]

Advocating? Are you a bishop? A priest? Isn’t it a bishop’s job to decide what is fitting -or not- for his flock? Or do you mean you wrote to your bishop to give him your opinion .

Advocating my opinion, yes. Nope, not a Bishop. Not a priest either. Yes, it’s a Bishop’s job to care for the faithful. Of course it is. It’s his purview. Entirely. That doesn’t mean a Bishop can’t be wrong or that I can’t be right. But in the end it’s only a matter of opinion, and mine is that we should take greater care with the Eucharist at Mass. One difference between me and the Bishop, is that you are free to disregard my opinion.

 

[Diaconia]

It is typically easy to find a parish that distributes under both kinds.

The sign value is better under both kinds, but it is not required.

If it’s important to you, find a parish that does. All Eastern Catholic Churches do.

As a deacon, I always receive under both kinds, but even before Holy Orders I always preferred it, and never had trouble finding parishes that did so.

Deacon Christopher

 

[Gorgias]

this is false.

Neither, the priest nor the lay people partake of bread and wine.

Sure, but what he meant is likewise false: it’s not the case that the Precious Blood is (always) “reserved only for clergy” and “the lay people take only [Eucharistic] bread”.

Besides which, he mentioned that he heard this from an “anti-Catholic”, so it’s not surprising that they’d frame it up in that way…

The first thing that popped in my mind was the NASA acronym LEM for “Lunar Excursion Module”

And I thought of the acronym used around here for some parish employees: “Lay Ecclesial Minister”.