Question about Extraordinary Eucharistic ministers

[Cajun_Papist]

Completely agree. If finishing the remainder makes the priest feel “drunk” and he doesn’t know the answer to the EMHC question, what has he been doing with leftovers before this “question” was posed to him?

He said his understanding was it was okay but he was going to do more research and find out for sure.

 

[Miserissima]

He said his understanding was it was okay but he was going to do more research and find out for sure.

There is a difference between what you just posted versus “I asked my Priest about it and said he really wasn’t sure.”

The latter sounds like he shrugged his shoulders and then have an excuse why he wouldn’t like to do it if he had to.

The former helps to give a lot of necessary context.,

 

[pianistclare]

There is a difference between what you just posted versus “I asked my Priest about it and said he really wasn’t sure.”

The latter sounds like he shrugged his shoulders and then have an excuse why he wouldn’t like to do it if he had to.

The former helps to give a lot of necessary context.,

Exactly.

 

[TimothyH]

There is no such thing as an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister.

The minister of the Eucharist is the person who celebrates Mass. That is always a priest or a bishop. The priest, even concelebrants, are always ordinary, never extraordinary.

The Minister of Communion is the person who distributes communion. A Deacon or a member of the laity may be ministers of communion but they are never ministers of the Eucharist.

-Tim-

 

[paperwight66]

Generally Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion cannot consume the remaining Precious Blood in their chalices.

From the 2010 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for Australia:

“284. … b. whatever may remain of the Blood of Christ is consumed at the altar by the Priest or the Deacon or the duly instituted acolyte who ministered the chalice.”

An exception is in the USA, if the diocesan bishop approves. This is because the Vatican has approved “Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America,” which includes:

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Not just in the USA. In the UK, EMHCs are instructed to empty chalices too.

Who knows, perhaps it is Australia that is the exception in NOT allowing it?