Eucharist Minister drops Communion and then

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She drops it giving it to a girl, picks it up puts it back in the ciborium, grabs another host, gives the girl communion and just keeps on going. What should she have done? When we served we always used patens. There were two altar servers and a girl there and no patens. The priest standing beside here didn’t even blink when she did this.
 
We were instructed to pick It up and set It aside. The Host would then be consumed after Communion had been distributed. If we spilled the Precious Blood (Never happened when I was at that parish.) we were to put a purificator over it.

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smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/17/17_1_12v.gif Yes!
I am an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion and you are expected to keep that Host aside or consume it yourself immediately.
Putting it back into the ciborium contaminates all the other Hosts and may bring them into contact with the profane.

On another thought. When the Sacred Host is accidently dropped do not the words of Sacred Scripture come into play?

“He will set His Angels charge over thee lest your foot hit a rock?” I believe that the Angels indeed catch the Sacred Host if it is accidently dropped. I am also a great believer in the idea that all crumbs of Sacred Host are caught too by Angels and returned to the ciborium if indeed they are not returned by the Priest or extraordinary Minister first.
 
I Was told the angels will pick them up also but I liek to keep them busy attacking Satan and keeping him out of the parish.
 
Bill_A said:
5 second rule. You pick it up and eat it yourself.
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Indeed.

“Setting it aside” is unacceptable. Consume it immediately.
 
Bill_A said:
5 second rule. You pick it up and eat it yourself.
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This is what I heard too, when i was a Eucharistic miniter, but I am not sure how much difference eixts between the different juristictions of dioscese.
 
The beauty of it was she just picked it up off the floor and threw it back into the ciborium and she didn’t even get red or blush in the face. I never saw anyone drop communion before, and I always sit up front and I was an altar-event engineer (altarboy) for 3 or 4 years.
 
:confused: I have seen the priest drop the sacred Host on the floor twice at daily Mass. One time he picked it up and gave it to the communicant, and the next time, the communicant picked it up and put it in his mouth. No one bothers to cover up the floor where the Host was dropped. Everyone continued to walk over the place where the Host was on the floor. It is really sickening. This priest is a newly ordained priest, older, but seems to be reverent and orthodox otherwise. I don’t get it.
 
When I receive communion I always check closely on my palm for crumbs, otherwise they would drop to the ground. Lately the hosts have been solid where I attend mass.
 
That’s why I receive Communion in the hand from EM’s who are very young, old, short or somewhat shaky (the older ones!). I prefer on the tongue, but I don’t want to risk the EM dropping the Host because they don’t know how to properly place it on the tongue. (and I’m tall so it makes it harder for short EMs) —KCT
 
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