Do you avoid female Extraordinary Ministers Of the Holy Eucharist?

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I do not discriminate among EMHC. I guess you could say I discriminate against them. If at all possible, I will seek out the priest or deacon to receive from them.
 
Well, if she’s wearing a Tweety Bird sweat shirt and sweat pants and has her 4 year-old child clinging to her leg, I move over to the priest’s line for Holy Communion. Unfortunately this truely happened.
 
Boy, I thought I was the ONLY one who line jumped! It doesn’t matter if the EM is a male or female - their hands are not consecrated thus I almost always go with the Priest to receive communion on my tongue.

I say almost always because sometimes the Mass is packed and I’ll be on the wrong side. I feel you receive more graces through the Priest.
 
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Kyenta:
It doesn’t matter if the EM is a male or female - their hands are not consecrated thus I almost always go with the Priest to receive communion on my tongue. … I feel you receive more graces through the Priest.
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You have an incorrect understanding, and deny the authority of the Church to regulate matters of discipline. These are bigger issues than worrying about “whose hands are consecrated.”
 
Whats this line jumping stuff? That actually goes through your head? The sacred words have been said, you just said “Lord I am not worthy to receive you…” and the priest has just received and all you are thinking about is how to find a “better way” and leave everyone else second class? Go sit in the place where the Priest goes to, but dont go hopping around trying to gain any extras.

I agree 100% that women should not be up there, and I long for the day where EMHC are gone.
 
I have no problem with it. Considering the miraculous nature of the Eucharist, I scarcely am concerned about such matters. I do not buy the slippery slope arguement either. Women will never be priests. Period. We would have to worry about dogs flying around first.
 
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Kyenta:
Boy, I thought I was the ONLY one who line jumped! It doesn’t matter if the EM is a male or female - their hands are not consecrated thus I almost always go with the Priest to receive communion on my tongue.

I say almost always because sometimes the Mass is packed and I’ll be on the wrong side. I feel you receive more graces through the Priest.
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Please don’t try to be more Catholic than the Catholic Church.
 
As long as the individual has been commissioned to distribute Holy Communion, I will go to him or her regardless of gender.

But I will avoid an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion who seems not to know how to properly place the Host on my tongue. I don’t want him or her to place it barely at the tip of my tongue so that I have to reach up to prevent it falling and place it in my mouth with my hands. If I wanted to receive with my hands, I’d not be sticking out my tongue!

But Communion time is about WHO we are receiving, and not so much about from whom we are receiving, imho… If Jesus is willing to come to miserable old me, then who am I to say to dictate from whom He comes!!!

(That said, I think our parish does “overuse” emHC)
 
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snoopy:
Please don’t try to be more Catholic than the Catholic Church.
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EMCs are an example of the Catholic Church trying to be more protestant. :rolleyes:
 
I avoid EMHCs. I sit where I know I’ll be in line for reception from our Priest. I also receive on my tongue.
This is learned behavior because I was confirmed in a very liberal parish and was receiving from female EMHCs that I knew from discussion with them were supporters of abortion “rights”, female priests, etc. After discerning that I did not feel right about what was going on, I changed parishes, began receiving on the tongue and only from the Priest.
Call me what you will, I now feel closer to God.
 
I Would Like To Share With You My Experience As A Female Em. Our Priest Is Disabled And Is Unable To
Distribute Holy Communion. So We Have Em’s At
Our Masses. We Do Have A Deacon Who Is Always
At A Mass, But He Can Not Be At All Of Them.

As An Em, I Have Learned So Much This Year. It Is
My Joy To Be Able To Give Our Lord To His People
At Mass. I Can Not Describe The Reverence That
People Who Come Up To Me Show For Him. The Love In Their Eyes Is Inspiring. It Is Truly My Privledge To
Do This. I Did Not Want To At First, I Still Do Feel
“un Worthy”. Believe Me, I Do Not Have Any
Ambitions To Be A Priest, And I Do Not Even Begin To
Think That Women Should Be Ordained.

It Saddens Me To See How Some People Feel About
Em’s. Even Before I Became One, I Still Went To
Who Ever Was There. It Does Not Matter Who We
Receive Our Lord From, As Long As We Humbly
And Reverently Receive Him.
 
I don’t avoid female EMHC. I don’t have a choice anyway; up in the choir loft, we receive Communion from one of the two choir members who are EMHC – one man and one woman; they take turns serving. There’s no way to go downstairs to receive from the priest; it’s just too far away, and we’d never get back upstairs on time.

Besides, I agree with whoever said what we are receiving is more important than who we receive from.
 
Interesting. In all my vast experience with masses (4 total!), I have seen EM’s, and if I hadn’t have come here first to read lengthy lists of abuses, I would never have known there was anything wrong with it (there were only handfuls of people all the times I went - small parishes).

Anyway, at least one of the parishes, the women were dressed well, inconscipicous (or as much as you can be while standing up front) and quiet. It wouldn’t have bothered me to receive from them, I suppose, if I were able to receive the Eucharist.
 
I generally avoid EMHC’s in general, regardless of their sex. If I have the opportunity, I will choose to sit in a pew that will be ministered by a priest or deacon.
 
I agree with & do as stated in Brendan’s post.

I also forgot to say that I will not drink from the Cup, due to it being brought to & blessed at the altar in a glass carafe.

james
 
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Fox:
It is true that you do receive more graces from the ordained.
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The Grace of the Eucharist (and every other Sacrament) is inherent in the Sacrament itself, not in the Minister.

So the Minister is unimportant. It is however, a worthy thing to seek out an Ordinary Minister whenever possible.
 
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Brendan:
The Grace of the Eucharist (and every other Sacrament) is inherent in the Sacrament itself, not in the Minister.

So the Minister is unimportant. It is however, a worthy thing to seek out an Ordinary Minister whenever possible.
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:confused:

So I should go to confession and recieve the sacrament from aunt betty from down the street??

How 'bout when my daughter gets married, I can have her CCD teacher officiate instead of the priest???

When my newborn is to be baptized, I’ll let my mother do it??

:confused:
 
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