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MartyrForJesus
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Wow. How many priests do you have at your parish?
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JGMendes4049
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But the Ordinary Minister of the Sacrament of Confirmation is any bishop, not just the diocesan bishop.
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NewEnglandPriest
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Well, if you have the people and the priests and all the required help, then go to it.
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Mrs_Sally
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Looks like there is a break after the 10:30 Mass to count the collection and put it away. But goodness! How busy your priests are! They must all take a nap right after lunch!
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thistle
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We have 3 priests but in our case EMHC’s really are necessary.
Our parish has 14,000 people and we have an average 80% Mass attendance. We have so many Masses in order to accommodate everyone.
Also on Holy Days of Obligation other than Sundays we have the Sunday Mass schedule so everyone can fulfill their obligation even if they are working.
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PA650
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Or these young men with potential vocations decided to pursue a vocation with a traditional society of the Church, which doesn’t indulge in the innovations so often found in the Ordinary Form celebration of Mass. Of course, I reside on the liberal West Coast, so the face of Catholicism is quite different than a more or less traditional Midwest of East Coast diocese.
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TheMc
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Let me go out on a limb here and point out that the traditional bishops/orders/societies are the ones getting all the vocations as of late.
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jpjd
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Doesn’t anybody else but me get tired of these EMHC threads? Same old tired arguments, same old tired responses. I move that any new threads on EMHCs be re-directed to this one and let’s save everybody a lot of time. 
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TheMc
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IDK, if you don’t like it, no one is holding a gun to your head to keep you in this very thread…Doesn’t anybody else but me get tired of these EMHC threads? Same old tired arguments, same old tired responses. I move that any new threads on EMHCs be re-directed to this one and let’s save everybody a lot of time.
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Brendan
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We have about 1200-1500 at each of our main Masses and two priests (and two deacons, those technically one is ‘retired’)
Our Mass schedule is as follows
Sat
4:30pm
6:30pm (EF Mass)
Sun
7:00am
9:30am
11:30am
1:30pm
6:30pm
8:30pm
We don’t use ministers who are not ordained.
Rather, we use prie dieu as a communion rail with 2-4 clergy ( see the ‘Communion Rail’ thread for more detail)
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thistle
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In our case there is only 15 minutes from the end of a Mass until the next one starts. In your case you have less Masses and a minimum of two hours between Masses. It is not possible for us to manage without EMHC’s.
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NewEnglandPriest
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Really? All the vocations? Funny, I seem to remember my diocese having seminarians…
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Brendan
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On the other hand, our parish doen’t use EMHC’s (or at least very rarely*)
And we’ve had 12 men ordained from our parish in the last 10 years.
And 1-2 men from our parish head into the seminary each recent year, so that trend will be continuning for awhile.
*- We do have a Chaldean SubDeacon in our parish who sometimes helps distribution Holy Communion if one of the priests or deacons is not present. In addition, our bishop askes that seminarians who are Instituted Acolytes assist with the distribtion of Holy Communion whenever possible. Our pastor complies with our bishop’s wishes when the seminarians are home.
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NewEnglandPriest
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Your parish apparently doesn’t have need of them.
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TheDoctor
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Because of the other commitments our Priests have (baptisms, home visits, etc.). Again, the time of the Mass and when and how many EMHC are not up to me but up to the Pastor. Since I don’t wear the collar or bear the responsibility I will go with and support his decision.
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GwenL
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And what does that have to do with my statement?
A man who decides to rejects Christ’s call to the priesthood because he sees women serving as EMHCs probably mis-heard that “call.”
I just don’t think a vocation to the priesthood is all so delicate that the view of five women in pantsuits could destroy the vocation.
Show me a "traditional bishop/order/society that doesn’t have EMHCs in a large parish setting. You’ll come up with FSSP and ICKSP for societies. Now show me the bishop.
I think that the supposition on many on the CAF boards is just hilarious. People talk about what destroys/subverts/ruins vocations to the priesthood, and claim that it’s female EMHCs, altar girls, females in the sanctuary, females in the sacristy, females apparently taking over the world. Get real. Men, authentic men of the type we need as priests, can work with women just fine and never worry about women taking over their roles. They aren’t so insecure in their manhood that women EMHCs worry them. Men that can’t work with women, we don’t need as priests.
The real destroyer of vocations is Satan, and he’s having great success with his most ingenious tool, contraception. That’s what destroys vocations.
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NewEnglandPriest
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While I understand your point in the abstract I would like to point out that Pope Saint Blessed Something infallibly declared that Cooties contracted from interaction with a girl is an impediment to holy orders.
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FrDavid96
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Is that a simple impediment or a dire impediment?While I understand your point in the abstract I would like to point out that Pope Saint Blessed Something infallibly declared that Cooties contracted from interaction with a girl is an impediment to holy orders.
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GwenL
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LOLWhile I understand your point in the abstract I would like to point out that Pope Saint Blessed Something infallibly declared that Cooties contracted from interaction with a girl is an impediment to holy orders.
Just what we need, right? Priests who have no idea how to interact with girls and women. That’s helpful! People seem to forget that priests have to minister to everybody, and have to interact with everybody. Girls and women look to spiritual and moral role models in strong, holy priests also.
It is just so exhausting to read about how delicate little boys are scared away from a vocation because a girl is serving at the altar, or a woman is serving as an Extraordinary minister. Wimpish boys that are scared by girls, we don’t need as priests.
Worse, this diverts attention from the real cause of the vocation crisis in the western world–the contraceptive mentality.
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Brendan
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Is our parish doing anything that other parishes cannot?
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