Daily Communion Services at Home?

[piusphilistine]

In the Jubilee year of 2000, my pastor at the time asked me to start leading some communion services for some incarcerated folks. I agreed as long as I was allowed to follow the Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass. He agreed.

To learn the ritual I conducted a daily communion service at my house, with just me in attendance. I stop by my parish on the way home and pick-up a consecrated host which I transport in a proper pyx and burse. Once home after washing my hands and donning an alb, I conduct the communion service strictly per the ritual and in a VERY reverent manner. I do this Monday through Friday – on the weekends I am able to go to Mass.

Originally I intended to do it for perhaps a month to learn the ritual. But after a month I decided to just continue and I have with the approval of my pastors. Yes, I would attend a Mass, a public communion service or even Liturgy of the Hours if one was in any way available to me, but none are.

This daily practice has provided the incentive for me to read and reflect on the daily Scripture readings, to pray, and to receive Holy Communion.

I have asked each of my pastors (3) since I started if it’s OK to continue. The first two simply said “that’s great – continue.” My current pastor was even more encouraging and asked if I would consider leading it at the parish instead of my house. As it is, he celebrates three daily Masses and just dosen’t have the time to celebrate a fourth.

I really don’t want to stop, but I’m a bit anxious about doing this five days a week in public. What do you all think?

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

If it has the approval of your pastor – and in fact is at his request – then I suppose it’s OK.

Personally, though, I think a communion service should be an occasional thing. If the parish already has three Masses a day, is there really a need for a communion service in addition to that? It would be different if you were going to a nursing home, jail, or some other place where there’s no priest. But why would someone want to attend a communion service if they have the opportunity to attend Mass instead?

I’ve led communion services and it’s something I love doing. But I wouldn’t consider doing it daily.

Frankly, I don’t understand the idea of private communion services either. Jesus said “where two or three are gathered” he is there. It seems like there should be a community aspect to it or there isn’t a point. I can’t imagine leading a communion service for myself alone.

 

[Walking_Home]

In the Jubilee year of 2000, my pastor at the time asked me to start leading some communion services for some incarcerated folks. I agreed as long as I was allowed to follow the Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass. He agreed.

To learn the ritual I conducted a daily communion service at my house, with just me in attendance. I stop by my parish on the way home and pick-up a consecrated host which I transport in a proper pyx and burse. Once home after washing my hands and donning an alb, I conduct the communion service strictly per the ritual and in a VERY reverent manner. I do this Monday through Friday – on the weekends I am able to go to Mass.

Originally I intended to do it for perhaps a month to learn the ritual. But after a month I decided to just continue and I have with the approval of my pastors. Yes, I would attend a Mass, a public communion service or even Liturgy of the Hours if one was in any way available to me, but none are.

This daily practice has provided the incentive for me to read and reflect on the daily Scripture readings, to pray, and to receive Holy Communion.

I have asked each of my pastors (3) since I started if it’s OK to continue. The first two simply said “that’s great – continue.” My current pastor was even more encouraging and asked if I would consider leading it at the parish instead of my house. As it is, he celebrates three daily Masses and just dosen’t have the time to celebrate a fourth.

I really don’t want to stop, but I’m a bit anxious about doing this five days a week in public. What do you all think?

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Taking into account the following—your home communion service may not be within the laws of the Church.

RS–166 pertains to communion services. If you already have Sunday Mass (with a priest) and 3 daily—can’t see how it would be justified — for you lead a communion service in addition to what your parish already offers.

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html

[132.] **No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, **or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

[166.] Likewise, especially if Holy Communion is distributed during such celebrations, the diocesan Bishop, to whose exclusive competence this matter pertains, must not easily grant permission for such celebrations to be held on weekdays, especially in places where it was possible or would be possible to have the celebration of Mass on the preceding or the following Sunday. Priests are therefore earnestly requested to celebrate Mass daily for the people in one of the churches entrusted to their care.

 

[benedictgal]

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Taking into account the following—your home communion service may not be within the laws of the Church.

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html

[132.] **No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, **or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

I would have to concur with Walking Home. Here is what Redemptionis Sacramentum says regarding the matter:

[165.] It is necessary to avoid any sort of confusion between this type of gathering and the celebration of theEucharist.271 The diocesan Bishops, therefore, should prudently discern whether Holy Communion ought to be distributed in these gatherings. The matter would appropriately be determined in view of a more ample co-ordination in the Bishops’ Conference, to be put into effect after the recognitio of the acts by the Apostolic See through the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. It will be preferable, moreover, when both a Priest and a Deacon are absent, that the various parts be distributed among several faithful rather than having a single lay member of the faithful direct the whole celebration alone. Nor is it ever appropriate to refer to any member of the lay faithful as “presiding” over the celebration.

[166.] Likewise, especially if Holy Communion is distributed during such celebrations, the diocesan Bishop, to whose exclusive competence this matter pertains, must not easily grant permission for such celebrations to be held on weekdays, especially in places where it was possible or would be possible to have the celebration of Mass on the preceding or the following Sunday. Priests are therefore earnestly requested to celebrate Mass daily for the people in one of the churches entrusted to their care.

Notice that the document doesn’t say anything about doing this at home. That is because this was never considered a viable option, unless, you are living in an area that is suffering from persecution making it next to impossible for the faithful to gather in Church. Regarding where such celebrations should take place, the GIRM (2002) does mention the following:

1. For the celebration of the Eucharist, the people of God normally are gathered together in a church or, if there is no church or if it is too small, then in another respectable place that is nonetheless worthy of so great a mystery. Churches, therefore, and other places should be suitable for carrying out the sacred action and for ensuring the active participation of the faithful.

Therefore, this would rule out having such a service in someone’s house. By the way, Walking Home, I didn’t mean to hijack your post. I’m still having some trouble with quotes. Mea culpa.

 

[piusphilistine]

If it has the approval of your pastor – and in fact is at his request – then I suppose it’s OK.

Personally, though, I think a communion service should be an occasional thing. ** If the parish already has three Masses a day**, is there really a need for a communion service in addition to that? It would be different if you were going to a nursing home, jail, or some other place where there’s no priest. But why would someone want to attend a communion service if they have the opportunity to attend Mass instead?

I’ve led communion services and it’s something I love doing. But I wouldn’t consider doing it daily.

Frankly, I don’t understand the idea of private communion services either. Jesus said “where two or three are gathered” he is there. It seems like there should be a community aspect to it or there isn’t a point. I can’t imagine leading a communion service for myself alone.

It has two. Morning and noon Masses. He rushes over to a second parish to celebrate another morning Mass.

 

[piusphilistine]

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Taking into account the following—your home communion service may not be within the laws of the Church.

RS–166 pertains to communion services. If you already have Sunday Mass (with a priest) and 3 daily—can’t see how it would be justified — for you lead a communion service in addition to what your parish already offers.

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html

[132.] **No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, **or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

[166.] Likewise, especially if Holy Communion is distributed during such celebrations, the diocesan Bishop, to whose exclusive competence this matter pertains, must not easily grant permission for such celebrations to be held on weekdays, especially in places where it was possible or would be possible to have the celebration of Mass on the preceding or the following Sunday. Priests are therefore earnestly requested to celebrate Mass daily for the people in one of the churches entrusted to their care.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking the Blessed Sacrament to my home as I have been doing. That much I am certain about. (The paragraph you cited does not apply in this case – I am not storing the Blessed Sacrament nor placing It on exposition.) There is absolutely no instruction from the Church that says a communion service must take place in a church, or that it cannot take place in a home.

The bottom line is that there are people like me who cannot attend Mass except at night M-F. If he stops one of the other Masses, an even greater number of people will miss Mass.

 

[benedictgal]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking the Blessed Sacrament to my home as I have been doing. The paragraph you cited does not apply in this case – I am not storing the Blessed Sacrament or placing It on exposition.

The bottom line is that there are people like me who cannot attend Mass except at night M-F. If he stops one of the other Masses, an even greater number of people will miss Mass.

There is something wrong. Unless you are the Bishop and happen to have a private chapel, your home is not the place for the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament.

The quotes that we have cited do apply in your case. Just where are you keeping the Blessed Sacrament overnight? Does everyone consume at these services? I do not mean to sound rude, but, not even priests can keep the Blessed Sacrament in their rectories. The Blessed Sacrament must remain in the Tabernacle.

 

[piusphilistine]

There is something wrong. Unless you are the Bishop and happen to have a private chapel, your home is not the place for the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament.

The quotes that we have cited do apply in your case. Just where are you keeping the Blessed Sacrament overnight? Does everyone consume at these services? I do not mean to sound rude, but, not even priests can keep the Blessed Sacrament in their rectories. The Blessed Sacrament must remain in the Tabernacle.

I am not reserving the Blessed Sacrament. There is nothing in my posting that suggests I am. It is terribly wrong of you to suggest I doing that.

Let me repeat verbatim, what I typed in the OP:

“I stop by my parish on the way home and pick-up a consecrated host which I transport in a proper pyx and burse. Once home after washing my hands and donning an alb, I conduct the communion service strictly per the ritual and in a VERY reverent manner.”

I do not reserve the Blessed Sacrament in my home.

And just so you know, priests, retired priests and even laymen DO LICITLY reserve the Blessed Sacrament in home chapels in specific cases with the formal permission of their local bishops.

Talk about non-issues. I should have never posted this question here.

 

[Walking_Home]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking the Blessed Sacrament to my home as I have been doing. That much I am certain about. (The paragraph you cited does not apply in this case – I am not storing the Blessed Sacrament nor placing It on exposition.) There is absolutely no instruction from the Church that says a communion service must take place in a church, or that it cannot take place in a home.

The bottom line is that there are people like me who cannot attend Mass except at night M-F. If he stops one of the other Masses, an even greater number of people will miss Mass.

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You are carrying the Host home are you not. RS–132 is clear on that matter. RS does state —no one is to carry the Host to his/her home. It really becomes irrelevent --if your purpose is a self-serve communion service.

 

[benedictgal]

I am not reserving the Blessed Sacrament. It is terribly wrong of you to suggest I am.

The way your post was written made it seem as though you were. Please don’t take offense at my assumption. My concern is that a person’s house is not the appropriate place for something like this. It does need to be done in a church. Please re-read the citations that we have posted. After all, you did ask questions regarding what you are doing.

Now, is it possible for you to attend Mass during your lunch hour or before you go to work? There have been days when I have had to juggle my schedule so that I won’t have to miss daily Mass. I usually go during my lunch hour; however, if I have a meeting or a work-related event, I’ll go earlier in the morning or after I get off work. Furthermore, on days that I have to travel (work-related), I’ll go to the earliest possible Mass and then hit the road. It is a sacrifice, but, I love going to daily Mass. Of course, when I’ve had the flu, I don’t go.

The only time that we’ve had Communion Services (lay-lead) are when our priests are on retreat. Even then, they are few and far between. If there is a Mass elsewhere, I’ll try to go there. However, I have led a couple of Communion Services in a pinch; but, these have been conducted in Church. I am curious about one thing. Do you not have a Deacon who can assist the priest? Even though the Deacon obviously cannot celebrate Mass, he would be the most appropriate minister for a Communion service. That is what our Cathedral used to have when the rector took the day off.

 

[piusphilistine]

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You are carrying the Host home are you not. RS–132 is clear on that matter. RS does state —no one is to carry the Host to his/her home. It really becomes irrelevent --if your purpose is a self-serve communion service.

You misinterpret. Horribly so.

Thank goodness that’s not what RS132 implies, else I could not have brought daily communion to ailing elders in the past – all with the approval of the Church.

 

[piusphilistine]

The way your post was written made it seem as though you were. Please don’t take offense at my assumption. My concern is that a person’s house is not the appropriate place for something like this. It does need to be done in a church. Please re-read the citations that we have posted. After all, you did ask questions regarding what you are doing.

Now, is it possible for you to attend Mass during your lunch hour or before you go to work? There have been days when I have had to juggle my schedule so that I won’t have to miss daily Mass. I usually go during my lunch hour; however, if I have a meeting or a work-related event, I’ll go earlier in the morning or after I get off work. Furthermore, on days that I have to travel (work-related), I’ll go to the earliest possible Mass and then hit the road. It is a sacrifice, but, I love going to daily Mass. Of course, when I’ve had the flu, I don’t go.

The only time that we’ve had Communion Services (lay-lead) are when our priests are on retreat. Even then, they are few and far between. If there is a Mass elsewhere, I’ll try to go there. However, I have led a couple of Communion Services in a pinch; but, these have been conducted in Church. I am curious about one thing. Do you not have a Deacon who can assist the priest? Even though the Deacon obviously cannot celebrate Mass, he would be the most appropriate minister for a Communion service. That is what our Cathedral used to have when the rector took the day off.

You are quite wrong. My description was crystal-clear. You created a red herring. It would be best if you just apologized for not being able to understand what I wrote – when it was written in a very clear manner.

Posting #2 provided some food for thought and I appreciate it. The rest…less said the better.

 

[Walking_Home]

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Originally Posted by Walking_Home
You are carrying the Host home are you not. RS–132 is clear on that matter. RS does state —no one is to carry the Host to his/her home. It really becomes irrelevent --if your purpose is a self-serve communion service.

You misinterpret. Horribly so.

Thank goodness that’s not what RS132 implies, else I could not have brought daily communion to ailing elders in the past – all with the approval of the Church.

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Really now—I misinterpret “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home”. By the way—you having your own self-serve communion service in your home and taking communion to other people are two different things.

 

[benedictgal]

I am afraid that you left yourself wide open by the simple fact of mentioning that you are doing this in your house. The references in Redemptionis Sacramentum (which was published in 2004, roughly four years after you began the practice) clearly state that you cannot take the Blessed Sacrament home, which, is, what you are doing, as you yourself said in your post:

To learn the ritual I conducted a daily communion service at my house, with just me in attendance. I stop by my parish on the way home and pick-up a consecrated host which I transport in a proper pyx and burse. Once home after washing my hands and donning an alb, I conduct the communion service strictly per the ritual and in a VERY reverent manner.

Although you are doing so in a VERY reverent manner, it still does not take away from the fact that this is not a licit practice. As I said in my earlier posts, the faithful living under severe and harsh persecution (Mexican revolution during the time of Blessed Miguel Pro) had no other recourse than to have the Mass celebrated clandestinely in private houses. Blessed Miguel Pro even had established Holy Communion stations where he could clandestinely administer the sacraments, always with the understanding that being caught was an automatic death sentence (which he ultimately suffered). The British martyrs during the Elizabethan regime also had to celebrate Mass clandestinely in people’s homes. These were very grave circumstances where people paid with their blood for the opportunity to receive Jesus. The situation you are describing is completely different.

Doing this service in Church is one thing. However, doing this at home is something entirely different and illicit. As far as priests keeping reserved Eucharist at home, I do not think that is allowed. Nonetheless, you have yet to produce liturgical documentation to back up your points. Even the book that you cited doesn’t call for the kind of service you have described. Even transitional deacons who are practicing how to correctly celebrate the Mass do so in Church.

By the way, for obvious reasons, a Communion Service for inmates is completely allowable, as it is impossible for these poor souls to leave jail. My parochial vicar serves as chaplain to one of the regional detention centers. In fact, I helped him plan triduum one year for the inmates, including the Washing of the Feet. Don’t get me wrong. It is very laudable and commendable for you to be ministering to the imprisoned and to the elderly and homebound. But, it still does not take away from the fact that services at home are simply not licit.

 

[piusphilistine]

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Really now—I misinterpret “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home”. By the way—you having your own self-serve communion service in your home and taking communion to other people are two different things.

That’s just plain silly. RS states “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home” specificially for reasons of reservation, exposition – or desecration.

You attempt to take the one sentance out of context and interpret it a literal sense? That’s ludicrous.

THEN you want to flip-flop and suggest it’s OK to take the Blessed Sacrament into one’s home because “self-serve communion service in your home and taking communion to other people are two different things.”

 

[Manfred]

In the Jubilee year of 2000, my pastor at the time asked me to start leading some communion services for some incarcerated folks. I agreed as long as I was allowed to follow the Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass. He agreed.

To learn the ritual I conducted a daily communion service at my house, with just me in attendance. I stop by my parish on the way home and pick-up a consecrated host which I transport in a proper pyx and burse. Once home after washing my hands and donning an alb, I conduct the communion service strictly per the ritual and in a VERY reverent manner. I do this Monday through Friday – on the weekends I am able to go to Mass.

Originally I intended to do it for perhaps a month to learn the ritual. But after a month I decided to just continue and I have with the approval of my pastors. Yes, I would attend a Mass, a public communion service or even Liturgy of the Hours if one was in any way available to me, but none are.

This daily practice has provided the incentive for me to read and reflect on the daily Scripture readings, to pray, and to receive Holy Communion.

I have asked each of my pastors (3) since I started if it’s OK to continue. The first two simply said “that’s great – continue.” My current pastor was even more encouraging and asked if I would consider leading it at the parish instead of my house. As it is, he celebrates three daily Masses and just dosen’t have the time to celebrate a fourth.

I really don’t want to stop, but I’m a bit anxious about doing this five days a week in public. What do you all think?

Just my two-cents: you used a consecrated Host to practice? This is something that not even seminarians do when they are learning how to celebrate Mass.

Then, you decided to continue this Communion service for one at your home because “this daily practice has provided the incentive for (you) to read and reflect on the daily Scripture readings, to pray, and to receive Holy Communion.” And your pastor(s) approved? How did he/they come to that conclusion?

The only thing that sounds “kosher” here is conducting the Communion service in public in a church when no priest/deacon os available for an extended period, say, a week, while the priests/deacon go on an annual retreat or something, or you’re in a “mission” parish, where one priest rotates his daily Mass at several geographically-separated parishes.

 

[Walking_Home]

That’s just plain silly. RS states “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home” specificially for reasons of reservation, exposition – or desecration.

You attempt to take the one sentance out of context and interpret it a literal sense? That’s ludicrous.

THEN you want to flip-flop and suggest it’s OK to take the Blessed Sacrament into one’s home because “self-serve communion service in your home and taking communion to other people are two different things.”

Quote=piusphilistine
You misinterpret. Horribly so.

Thank goodness that’s not what RS132 implies, else I could not have brought daily communion to ailing elders in the past – all with the approval of the Church.

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My, my piusphilistine—you talk about mis-interpretation. Don’t see the qualifier “specifically for reasons of reservation, exposition” attached to --No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home. Although sacrilege is mentioned in the next sentence —the first (taking the Eucharist home) stands on its own.

As to the flip-flop—seems that appies to you. The discussion focused on you taking the Eucharist home for a self-serve communion service vs. RS132—and you tried to deflect it by bringing in—you taking communion to ailing elders.

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

 

[benedictgal]

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My, my piusphilistine—you talk about mis-interpretation. Don’t see the qualifier “specifically for reasons of reservation, exposition” attached to --No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home. Although sacrilege is mentioned in the next sentence —the first (taking the Eucharist home) stands on its own.

As to the flip-flop—seems that appies to you. The discussion focused on you taking the Eucharist home for a self-serve communion service vs. RS132—and you tried to deflect it by bringing in—you taking communion to ailing elders.

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

And, this last part was written by, drumroll, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who also had a heavy hand in writing RS. Now, as Pope, he has made some very telling comments regarding instances regarding celebrations in the absence of the priest:

Sunday assemblies in the absence of a priest

1. Rediscovering the significance of the Sunday celebration for the life of Christians naturally leads to a consideration of the problem of those Christian communities which lack priests and where, consequently, it is not possible to celebrate Mass on the Lord’s Day. Here it should be stated that a wide variety of situations exists. The Synod recommended first that the faithful should go to one of the churches in their Diocese where the presence of a priest is assured, even when this demands a certain sacrifice. (211) Wherever great distances make it practically impossible to take part in the Sunday Eucharist, it is still important for Christian communities to gather together to praise the Lord and to commemorate the Day set apart for him. This needs, however, to be accompanied by an adequate instruction about the difference between Mass and Sunday assemblies in the absence of a priest. The Church’s pastoral care must be expressed in the latter case by ensuring that the liturgy of the word – led by a deacon or a community leader to whom this ministry has been duly entrusted by competent authority – is carried out according to a specific ritual prepared and approved for this purpose by the Bishops’ Conferences. (212) I reiterate that only Ordinaries may grant the faculty of distributing holy communion in such liturgies, taking account of the need for a certain selectiveness. Furthermore, care should be taken that these assemblies do not create confusion about the central role of the priest and the sacraments in the life of the Church. The importance of the role given to the laity, who should rightly be thanked for their generosity in the service of their communities, must never obscure the indispensable ministry of priests for the life of the Church. (213) Hence care must be taken to ensure that such assemblies in the absence of a priest do not encourage ecclesiological visions incompatible with the truth of the Gospel and the Church’s tradition. Rather, they should be privileged moments of prayer for God to send holy priests after His own heart. It is touching, in this regard, to read the words of Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 1979 about those places where the faithful, deprived of a priest by a dictatorial regime, would meet in a church or shrine, place on the altar a stole which they still kept and recite the prayers of the eucharistic liturgy, halting in silence “at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation,” as a sign of how “ardently they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.” (214) With this in mind, and considering the incomparable good which comes from the celebration of the Eucharist, I ask all priests to visit willingly and as often as possible the communities entrusted to their pastoral care, lest they remain too long without the sacrament of love.

Inamsuch as this applies mostly to Sunday, the same principal holds true for piusphilistine’s sitution.

 

[piusphilistine]

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My, my piusphilistine—you talk about mis-interpretation. Don’t see the qualifier “specifically for reasons of reservation, exposition” attached to --No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home. Although sacrilege is mentioned in the next sentence —the first (taking the Eucharist home) stands on its own.

As to the flip-flop—seems that appies to you. The discussion focused on you taking the Eucharist home for a self-serve communion service vs. RS132—and you tried to deflect it by bringing in—you taking communion to ailing elders.

[132.] No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[225]

This is indeed silly. If we accept your laughable interpretation, where does RS differentiate between a communion service in my house by me and giving loved ones communion, also in my house?

You were the one that suggests we should follow an out of context/literal interpretation of “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home.”

So if that applies to me conducting a communion service at my home without reserving or placing the Blessed Sacrament on exposition, how does it not apply to me when I was taking communion to loved ones in my same home? Using your spaghetti logic we could never take holy communion to anyone staying at our homes, even when approve by our pastors. How utterly rediculous.

Given your misinterpretation of RS, would it be OK to for me to conduct the daily communion service at my next door neighbor’s house with my pastor’s approval because it’s not at my own house?

Your interpretation is clearly wrong, but I just want to see you differentiate between the two, using RS to back-up your justification.

19 postings and only #2 is of value.

 

[benedictgal]

This is indeed silly. If we accept your laughable interpretation, where does RS differentiate between a communion service in my house by me and giving loved ones communion, also in my house?

You were the one that suggests we should follow an out of context/literal interpretation of “No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home.”

So if that applies to me conducting a communion service at my home without reserving or placing the Blessed Sacrament on exposition, how does it not apply to me when I was taking communion to loved ones in my same home?

Given your misinterpretation of RS, it would be OK to for me to

Your interpretation is clearly wrong, but I just want to see you differentiate between the two, using RS to back-up your justification.

There is nothing laughable here. It is, rather, lamentable, that you cannot differentiate between the two. You have not provided legitimate documentation to support the notion that what you are doing is, in fact, allowable. No one here is contending the fact that you are taking Holy Communion to the sick. That is an allowable practice.

However, to hold communion services in your home is not allowable. This must be done in a church, as indicated in the GIRM. It is most unfortunate that you are blinded by the error you are committing. Walking Home and I have provided you with the documentation. You have not provided any to substantiate your claim.

As Manfred noted in his post, not even transitional deacons who are practicing to celebrate Mass use a Consecrated Species. You cannot use the Holy Eucharist as a practice run for conducting a Communion Service. That is a serious abuse. You also cannot hide behind the approval of your pastors, who, perhaps, at the time, did not realize that what they were allowing was a reprobated practice, since RS wasn’t released until 2004. But, now that you are made aware that this is, in fact, not allowed, and you still persist because of either blind ignorance or pride because it is something that you seem to enjoy, the burden of proof is on your shoulders.

Don’t be angry at us because we answered your questions. After all, it was you who sought the advice. Just because what we are telling you, and what we are pointing out in the documents, doesn’t agree with the answer that you wanted, you can’t discount what is in black and white. You need to seriously pray over this matter and sleep on it. Right now, you are letting your feelings get the better of you and, perhaps you are upset because three of us have told you that you are wrong. The documents themselves do not back your actions.

You asked a question. In good conscience, I have answered it based on the documentation that the Church provides. No one is trying to attack you. However, you need to accept the very strong possibility that what you have been doing is an abuse. In charity, we are trying to help you. Why you cannot see that is a question that you must seriously ponder.