I'm a Little Uncomfortable

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My wife has become an ECHM for the purposes of visiting the sick and taking communion to them, which is cool. She’s going to be visiting an invalid in a couple days, and in preparations for that, she’s brought home the pyx with a consecrated host and put it in a prominent position in the living room.

Is that normal or acceptable? I’m just a little uptight about it.

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DaveBj:
My wife has become an ECHM for the purposes of visiting the sick and taking communion to them, which is cool. She’s going to be visiting an invalid in a couple days, and in preparations for that, she’s brought home the pyx with a consecrated host and put it in a prominent position in the living room.

Is that normal or acceptable? I’m just a little uptight about it.

DaveBj
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No, it is not acceptable. She is to go directly to the people to whom she is bringing communion, give them communion and return any unused hosts to the tabernacle. she should avoid undue loitering or talking while doing this ministry.

Deacon Ed
 
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DaveBj:
My wife has become an ECHM for the purposes of visiting the sick and taking communion to them, which is cool. She’s going to be visiting an invalid in a couple days, and in preparations for that, she’s brought home the pyx with a consecrated host and put it in a prominent position in the living room.

Is that normal or acceptable? I’m just a little uptight about it.

DaveBj
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No, wrong, even specifically forbidden by Canon Law I believe. The Blessed Sacrament must be returned to the Tabernacle at the parish church ASAP. No, sooner than ASAP!
 
Br. Rich SFO:
No, wrong, even specifically forbidden by Canon Law I believe. The Blessed Sacrament must be returned to the Tabernacle at the parish church ASAP. No, sooner than ASAP!
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That’s what I thought. Can you guide me to the specific paragraph in Canon Law so I can print it out and give it to her? (It’ll have to be tomorrow, because I’m about ready to leave for work, and she’s in bed sleeping off a migraine.)

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DaveBj:
That’s what I thought. Can you guide me to the specific paragraph in Canon Law so I can print it out and give it to her? (It’ll have to be tomorrow, because I’m about ready to leave for work, and she’s in bed sleeping off a migraine.)

DaveBj
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Who is with the Eucharist?

If no one is able to return the Blessed Sacrament to the tabernacle NOW. You must consume the host or hosts, NOW. Not later, not tomorrow!

I will find the passage for you but take care of the Blessed Sacrament first.

Canons 934 - 940 Specifically 936
 
From Redemptionis Sacramentum at usccb.org/liturgy/documents/instructioneng.htm#8

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No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

133. A Priest or Deacon, or an extraordinary minister who takes the Most Holy Eucharist when an ordained minister is absent or impeded in order to administer it as Communion for a sick person, should go insofar as possible directly from the place where the Sacrament is reserved to the sick person’s home, leaving aside any profane business so that any danger of profanation may be avoided and the greatest reverence for the Body of Christ may be ensured. Furthermore the Rite for the administration of Communion to the sick, as prescribed in the Roman Ritual, is always to be used. **
 
The situation is worse that I first thought. She explained to the priest that she was not going to be able to go to the second person’s house until this morning, and he told her to take it home and put it “in a place of honor.” :bigyikes:

I have Redemptionis Sacramentum on my laptop, and last night at work I cut out the sections on EMHCing and will print them out and give them to my wife. Apparently this is all a function of the level of orthodoxy and the level of training at this particular parish. She was concerned; she asked the top authority, and did exactly what he told her to do. She has been to the invalid’s house this morning and has given her Communion.

We’re both upset by this.

Bro Rich, I could not consume the Host; I am not a received Catholic yet. Thank you for the specific Canon Law citations. I don’t have that loaded onto my laptop yet, but I know where to get it; I will print those off as well.

I am having second thoughts, not about about converting, but about converting at this parish. It’s Benedictine, and I am going to ask a question on another forum about the various religious orders.

😦

DaveBj
 
“She has been to the invalid’s house this morning and has given her Communion.”

Thank you for replying back.

You or your wife have not committed any wrong in this since she was told to do this by the Pastor and did not know any better.
 
Don’t be upset. You did not know. Now you do and I know you will not let it happen again.
You were guided by the Holy Spirit to feel uneasy about the situation and then led to ask the question on what to do.
Your wife was misguided, not out of arrogance but more than likely out of ignorance.
The situation was put right so put your mind at ease and remember our God is full of gentleness and compassion.

God Bless you both for you concern.

Fergal
 
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DaveBj:
We’re both upset by this.
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I am having second thoughts, not about about converting, but about converting at this parish. It’s Benedictine, and I am going to ask a question on another forum about the various religious orders
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Do not put a blanket over the Benedictines because one of them gave bad advice once… even though it was undeniably *really *bad advice.

There is one Benedictine at issue here, and, it would seem, a single incident. Your wife should talk to the priest in question about the incident, telling him that she has learned that his advice to her is seriously outside of Canon Law, and how upset both of you are to have been put in the position you were. After the talk, then make your decision. Once she has had an opportunity to talk to the priest, your wife should write a rational letter outlining the facts of the matter to your bishop and the priest’s superior, so that the matter will be known by those whose business it is to know it. In this way, any pattern of abuse will come to be brought to their attention.

After that, avoid the sin of detraction and say nothing about it except to those who have reason to know it (e.g., the other Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist in your parish.).
 
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