Mailing the Eucharist for Sunday socially distant Mass

[Katie777]

My kids used vanilla wafers

 

[JanR]

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

Definitely a mockery! Shame on that priest! Children should be taught early on that the sacred Eucharist must be treated reverently. It isn’t a cookie! Of course, it was unconsecrated, but it still gives the wrong impression, and the wrong idea.

 

[Saskachub]

Ya I kinda thought that just makes first communion less special if that became a habit. To the child it will look and taste the same as the after church snack. He’s great with the kids (there aren’t many kids there and he treats them like gold). He usually gives a sucker I was really stunned today

 

[QuillWriter]

My mother worked for the Postal Service for years and years before she died. She knew first hand just how careless the workers can be, throwing around packages, dropping and stepping on things, etc. Would you want that happening to Jesus? I sure wouldn’t!

Jesus isn’t some bauble you order off Amazon and have delivered to your house at your own convenience. He is our Lord, really and truly and substantially present, body, blood, soul, and divinity in the Eucharist. Assuming we’re in good enough health to do so, we should set aside the time in our schedules to go to Him, receiving Him with due reverence and awe.

 

[InThePew]

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

Aside from the irreverence of doing this, receiving the Eucharist is a human encounter since Christ shares our humanity and we’re called to share in his divinity. This is why, those taking communion to the sick and housebound aren’t supposed to just hand the pyx or even the host to the one receiving without saying any more than “the body of Christ”. It’s supposed to be about a personal (and in close, rather than exclusive) relationship with our Lord which is obviously lost without a human encounter.

 

[MrsAngelala]

I would say that’s a problem. At the church I grew up in, but after I left, they had for a short while a priest who handed out unconsecrated hosts to children and called them “potato chips.” It was only one of many issues, but he was there for I think less than a year. If something like this happened to my daughter, I would probably reach out to the bishop and ask him if my gut feeling about this was reasonable.

 

[amazingcatholic]

No way!!! That would be a sacrilege and is extremely disrespectful to our Lord.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

He was probably out of suckers and used unconsecrated wafers instead.

I agree it probably wasn’t the greatest thing to do, but unless he makes a point of handing out the wafers like “potato chips” as someone else said, I would let him slide on this one as long as the next time he’s back to candy.

 

[Xarto]

Obviously they cannot believe that it is the real body & blood of Christ or they wouldn’t do it.