Eucharistic ministers....oh boy

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Went to church last night, the extraordinary minister that gave me communion cracked some of Blessed Sacrament in half because he thought he would run out. I stopped giving out communion at mass because i just didn’t think i should be doing it and for personal reasons. Are they allowed to do this? Could it be considered sacrilege?
 
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Went to church last night, the extraordinary minister that gave me communion cracked some of Blessed Sacrament in half because he thought he would run out. I stopped giving out communion at mass because i just didn’t think i should be doing it and for personal reasons. Are they allowed to do this? Could it be considered sacrilege?
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I had a priest ask me to do that one time, because the crowd was bigger than we had anticipated. It’s not sacrilege; it’s just that more people came to the Mass than were expected.

Luckily I didn’t actually have to do it, since my line-up was relatively short.

It would have been worse :blush:for the EMHC to give blessings after he ran out of hosts, I expect.
 
I once had a mother ask if she could have “a little bit” to give to her toddler son. 🤷
 
I’ve seen a priest do this. Most hosts are pre-scored so they will break easily without shattering and leaving a lot of crumbs.

I couldn’t answer whether it’s “permitted” by the laity but I wouldn’t call it a sacrilege, either. You should have stopped and asked Father on the way out of Mass. If it’s wrong, he needs to know about it, and asking innocently is more charitable than hunting down references and demanding changes.
 
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Went to church last night, the extraordinary minister that gave me communion cracked some of Blessed Sacrament in half because he thought he would run out. I stopped giving out communion at mass because i just didn’t think i should be doing it and for personal reasons. Are they allowed to do this? Could it be considered sacrilege?
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It wasn’t sacriledge. People throw around the word sacrilege without understanding what it really means.

Sacriledge is the intentional profanation of something sacred. To commit sacriledge, one has to have the*** intent*** to profane something sacred. They have to want to profane the blessed sacrament and do so on purpose.

I seriously doubt that the EMHC intended to disrespect Jesus by fracturing the Eucharist. If they had meant to disrespect Jesus, they could have found a more effective way to do so than to fracture the Eucharistic species and continue to hand it out while saying, “Body of Christ”.

-Tim-
 
In this case the EMHC was doing exactly what he/she had to do to ensure the faithful received the Eucharist. Not sacrilege, but ministry!👍
 
People who bring the Eucharist to nursing homes often have to break off a small piece of the Host when an elderly or infirm person is unable to swallow an entire Host. Similarly, I have several times seen breaking of the Hosts at times like Easter or Christmas when the number of communicants exceeds the number of available consecrated Hosts.
 
As far as I know the GIRM only permits priests to fraction the hosts.
 
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Are you sure the use of the word “fractioning” makes sense in this situation?
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You are right: The GIRM #83 is describing the priest and deacon fractioning the one host together after the Rite of Peace.

Our diocesan norms explicitly state that EMHCs may fraction the host in order to minster communion to more of the faithful.
 
I wish posters would just go to their pastors with these questions before going to the internet. A quick conversation would normally solve the confusion immediately.
 
clem456 said:
I wish posters would just go to their pastors with these questions before going to the internet. A quick conversation would normally solve the confusion immediately.
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👍 Good point!

And even after getting the “advice” from here they should still check;)
 
clem456 said:
I wish posters would just go to their pastors with these questions before going to the internet. A quick conversation would normally solve the confusion immediately.
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Sometimes I feel that way, but then again, he might have the answer but the rest of us wouldn’t. And the forum would be a lot less lively if we only got to argue with trolls. 😛
 
Guys, we need more deacons 😃

(Don’t look at me, I’m still discerning :christmastree1:)
 
R_C said:
Guys, we need more deacons 😃

(Don’t look at me, I’m still discerning :christmastree1:)
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And if only priests and deacons distributed communion then the title of the thread would be, “Deacons as ordinary ministers of communion… oh boy”
  • The deacon’s hands are not consecrated.
  • The deacon’s hands are not purified at the lavabo.
  • Prior to deacons were not the ordinary ministers of communion. It’s an innovation.
  • The deacon might have had sex with his wife that morning.
St. Lawrence himself could be distributing communion and it wouldn’t matter. There will always be a complaint.

-Tim-
 
R_C said:
Guys, we need more deacons 😃

(Don’t look at me, I’m still discerning :christmastree1:)
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Same here. But as my occupation is my livelyhood i doubt that i would be able to perform as a deacon ought to.

Even a concencrated crumb is the whole of Christ.
 
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