EMHC's: Extraordinary for a reason

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The GIRM for the US, and all of it’s rules have been approved by the Holy See.
So as long as that is being followed, all is good.
The GIRM also says that if both species are given there should be 2 cup ministers for every one bread minister. So that,could,easily mean that 10 people are required.

Why don’t we just let our Priests amd Bishops do their jobs? :roll_eyes:
 
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What does that have to do with observing the norms laid out by the Holy See regarding the use of EMHCs.
 
The GIRM has been approved by the Holy See.
Any priest/Bishop who is following the GIRM is following those directives.
 
Our 86 year old pastor always uses EMHC and sit during Communion with the permission of the bishop and the insistence of his doctor.
 
We always have them. I see no issues with it. They are trained and ‘ordained’ of sorts
 
I was not replying to you in particular. I think what happened was someone else posted while I was writing my post and the site thought I was replying to you.
 
Clear what up?

The norms of use of EMHC is decided by the Bishop for his diocece in accordance with the guidelines set out by the GIRM and any additional items attached to it as per the Bishop’s conference of a particular area, with the Holy See’s approval.

I really don’t care what the opinion of one particular Canon lawyer is.
 
Or the receive both species.
The GIRM for the US recommends 2 cup ministers for every one bread minister.
 
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In this case, the opinion of one bishop is irrelevant. The Holy See (a higher authority than a local ordinary) is extremely clear; to act in a manner contrary to the authentic interpretation of canon 910 is disrespectful to the authority of the Pope. All Catholics must submit to the Pope’s authority, and this most certainly includes bishops. The pope has universal jurisdiction over the whole Church (canons 331-333). Furthermore, the canon lawyer is not stating an opinion in the article, but is citing official Vatican documents.

Have you any sources to back up what you’re saying?
 
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14? You must attend a very large parish? We have two.
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I don’t mean to be unduly critical of my current parish. It is a good and active parish with good priests. Yes, it is a large parish with five weekend Masses. My former parish was about the same size with six weekend Masses. But I was somewhat startled at the number of EMHC’s. Each communion station has one person distributing the host and two holding the chalice. The priest and deacon also distribute communion. There are four or more communion lines, so that is 12 or more persons distributing communion. My previous parish never had more than four EMHC’s. Part of the solution for a very large congregation can be to distribute communion only under one species.
 
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If the Church had a lot more priests and deacons, this would become a nonissue.
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I wonder about this. Is the trend toward using many EMHC’s primarily driven by lack of priests, or is it driven mainly by a push for more lay participation in the liturgy? I see some very large parishes with a lot of EMHC’s and some very large parishes with not many EMHC’s.
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It’s clearly driven by the lack of priests. Hence the re-establishment of the Permanent Diaconate and it’s the main reason why there has been a drive to have more of laity involved with the liturgy.

It’s simply common sense, if there enough ordinary ministers to distribute Holy Communion to the Faithful, there would be less of a need for EMHCs.
 
And if there were a sufficient number of instituted lectors and instituted acolytes, would that similarly reduce the need for lay lectors and EMHC’s?
 
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