Mailing the Eucharist for Sunday socially distant Mass

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Can the Catholic Church send it’s parishioners consecrated Eucharist through the postal service so everyone can partake during the streamed liturgy?

I saw this in an Episcopal group I’m in on Facebook, and wondered if it was applicable to the Catholic Church.
 
Absolutely not! That is a sacrilege!!! The eucharist is Jesus, body, blood, soul, and divinity. The eucharist must be treated reverently at all times. No putting Him in bags or mailing, etc. Gravely diabolical to do such a thing.
 
No, not at all.

Would you put Jesus in an Envelope? I wouldn’t.
 
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Episcopalian said:
Can the Catholic Church send it’s parishioners consecrated Eucharist through the postal service so everyone can partake during the streamed liturgy?

I saw this in an Episcopal group I’m in on Facebook, and wondered if it was applicable to the Catholic Church.
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Latin Canon Law
Can. 911 §1 The duty and right to bring the blessed Eucharist to the sick as Viaticum belongs to the parish priest, to assistant priests, to chaplains and, in respect of all who are in the house, to the community Superior in clerical religious institutes or societies of apostolic life.
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After church this morning our priest took my 5 year old and a couple others into his office and gave them unconsecrated hosts and they were chomping on them as snacks on the way out, the large ones. And he said “he can be a priest at home I gave him the large host that I use!” Is this ok??? I thought it made a huge mockery of everything
 
Saskachub said:
After church this morning our priest took my 5 year old and a couple others into his office and gave them unconsecrated hosts and they were chomping on them as snacks on the way out, the large ones. And he said “he can be a priest at home I gave him the large host that I use!” Is this ok??? I thought it made a huge mockery of everything
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It is not consecrated, but is very unwise to pass out unconsecrated hosts. Faithful Catholics always see any host they could find somewhere as consecrated. Give the kids wonder bread next time.
 
One would think even Episcopalians would have an issue with this…
 
Episcopalian said:
Can the Catholic Church send it’s parishioners consecrated Eucharist through the postal service so everyone can partake during the streamed liturgy?
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NO.

That would be sacrilegious and horrible. Worse than the Catholic churches that already tried to send Jesus home with parishioners hand-carried in baggies, envelopes, or plastic pyxes, and got told by their bishops to stop.

The Episcopalian “consecrated” Eucharist is not Jesus (unless somehow the priest consecrating it was ordained in the Catholic Church originally, or was ordained by a bishop who had been ordained Catholic originally), so we don’t have to worry about it, thank God.
 
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Yeah, I suppose you’re right. Didn’t want to be the one to say it, but.
 
Yep. And I’ll admit as a Protestant convert due to marriage there are still some things I waffle about and I was FLOORED. My cradle catholic wife thought it was just great until we got to the van and I shared my opinion.
 
Episcopalian said:
Can the Catholic Church send it’s parishioners consecrated Eucharist through the postal service so everyone can partake during the streamed liturgy?
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As a postal worker, I can assure you that – Even religious sensibilities aside – This would be an UNBELIEVABLY Bad Idea.

And: Yes, I have every intention to show up at my polling place in person on election day to cast my vote. Mail my ballot – ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
 
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Saskachub:
After church this morning our priest took my 5 year old and a couple others into his office and gave them unconsecrated hosts and they were chomping on them as snacks on the way out, the large ones. And he said “he can be a priest at home I gave him the large host that I use!” Is this ok??? I thought it made a huge mockery of everything
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It is not consecrated, but is very unwise to pass out unconsecrated hosts. Faithful Catholics always see any host they could find somewhere as consecrated. Give the kids wonder bread next time.
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In preparing my son for reverent reception of First Communion a few years ago, I actually took some slices of white bread (American-style, what Europeans call “toast” bread), pressed them out flat, and cut them out into host-sized circles with a bottle cap. Then we practiced “receiving” them on the tongue. Worked beautifully.

Parenthetically, this is the same basic thing that Western Rite Orthodox do, in creating flat wafers from leavened bread. It is as though they are “retrofitting” Orthodox eucharistic rubrics onto a Western template.
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And: Yes, I have every intention to show up at my polling place in person on election day to cast my vote. Mail my ballot – ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
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My state has an online tracking function for mail-in absentee ballots, such that you can track the ballot all the way to the point where it is logged in by the polling office and is actually ready to be counted. So on the off chance my mail-in ballot is lost, I can always make the trek into town, to cast an early ballot in person.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
My state has an online tracking function for mail-in absentee ballots, such that you can track the ballot all the way to the point where it is logged in by the polling office and is actually ready to be counted. So on the off chance my mail-in ballot is lost, I can always make the trek into town, to cast an early ballot in person.
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Same. I have no choice but to mail my ballot, since I don’t actually live in the state I’m registered, but I’m pretty confident I can verify it got where it’s supposed to go.
 
Have you ever seen how when the priest reserves some hosts to be sent to home bound people where he puts them.
The hosts are to be treated for what they are NOT as how they appear.
If the hosts were to fragment and some particles fell to the ground that is sacrilegious.
As others stated. Absolutely NOT!!

Peace!
 
No, no, no, and no!

Would it be acceptable to put a human in a crate and ship them via the mail or FedEx? Of course not!

So why on Earth would we ship/mail Our Lord Jesus Christ?!?!?!
 
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Saskachub said:
After church this morning our priest took my 5 year old and a couple others into his office and gave them unconsecrated hosts and they were chomping on them as snacks on the way out, the large ones. And he said “he can be a priest at home I gave him the large host that I use!” Is this ok??? I thought it made a huge mockery of everything
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This is depends on situation by situation.

With little kids, it’s ok if the goal is to prep them for Communion. Also, It’s ok for little boys to play “priest” at home and pretend to celebrate the Mass. It helps them to learn the Mass and hopefully can lead to vocations.

However, it wouldn’t be a good idea to give them to older kids or have girls play priest at home.
 
Back in the 1960s when my younger brother would play priest my mom would flatten marshmallows for hosts.
 
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