That practice is not wrong, it is absolutely FORBIDDEN!Hi y’all! My question here is that during the daily Mass, my priest distributes the Body of Christ by giving the first person the paten and that person takes a host and passes the paten to the next person. The same is done with the Blood of Christ. I read somewhere that this is wrong, but can’t find it. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I know that! That’s why I’ve stopped going. I presented this to the priest, but I don’t think he’s listening. I just want some document that proves my position.That practice is not wrong, it is absolutely FORBIDDEN!
You can find this prohibition in the GIRMHi y’all! My question here is that during the daily Mass, my priest distributes the Body of Christ by giving the first person the paten and that person takes a host and passes the paten to the next person. The same is done with the Blood of Christ. I read somewhere that this is wrong, but can’t find it. Any help is greatly appreciated!
- The priest then takes the paten or ciborium and goes to the communicants, who, as a rule, approach in a procession.
teeThe faithful are not permitted to take the consecrated bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them from one to another.
I have searched and searched and searched again through that site. The one place I didn’t think to look…
I know it’s in RS.I know that! That’s why I’ve stopped going. I presented this to the priest, but I don’t think he’s listening. I just want some document that proves my position.
I disagree as, I believe, does the GIRM emphasis added]:Let me through out a time where it may be acceptable.
If your parish uses Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist (and hopefully they use them sparingly) and they line up in the sanctuary to receive after Agnus Dei, then the priest may say “the body of Christ” to one and they may pass it down, each properly presenting the body of Christ by saying “the body of Christ” and giving them communion and passing the ciborium down the line.
This practice is licit,
- The priest may be assisted in the distribution of Communion by other priests who happen to be present. If such priests are not present and there is a very large number of communicants, the priest may call upon extraordinary ministers to assist him, e.g., duly instituted acolytes or even other faithful who have been deputed for this purpose. In case of necessity, the priest may depute suitable faithful for this single occasion.
teeThese ministers should not approach the altar before the priest has received Communion, and they are always to receive from the hands of the priest celebrant the vessel containing either species of the Most Holy Eucharist for distribution to the faithful.
That is not acceptable either. What would be is the priest or Deacon giving a EMHC Holy Communion and then handing that EMHC the ciborium, that ENHC could then give Holy Communion to the person next to them. But not give them the ciborium.Let me through out a time where it may be acceptable.
If your parish uses Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist (and hopefully they use them sparingly) and they line up in the sanctuary to receive after Agnus Dei, then the priest may say “the body of Christ” to one and they may pass it down, each properly presenting the body of Christ by saying “the body of Christ” and giving them communion and passing the ciborium down the line.
This practice is licit, but rather deficiant when it comes to the symbolism of receiving Christ from “Christ’s own hand”, that being the hand of the priest. Also, I would think it would be unneccesarily time consuming when the priest could simply distribute communion to the Extraordinary ministers and then hand out the ciboria.
Adam
I don’t know that even the deacon may hand vessels to the EMsHC, unless perhaps the priest celebrant has first handed them to the deacon (see citation of the GIRM above)?That is not acceptable either. What would be is the priest or Deacon giving a EMHC Holy Communion and then handing that EMHC the ciborium, that ENHC could then give Holy Communion to the person next to them. But not give them the ciborium.
I don’t think I’ve read anything in the rubrics to exclude the deacon’s giving the ciborium to extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. The deacon is an ordinary minister of Holy Communion, after all, though he may not self-communicate, of course.I don’t know that even the deacon may hand vessels to the EMsHC, unless perhaps the priest celebrant has first handed them to the deacon (see citation of the GIRM above)?
I’m told the reasoning behind this is that only the priest celebrant knows which vessels he intended to consecrate. Placement of vessels on the corporal can be a visible sign of his intention, but it is not required. The priest celebrant could consecrate one or more elements not on the corporal; Likewise he could exclude from his intention one or more vessels that are on the corporal.
tee
This occurs in the section “Mass without a deacon,” so when it says “from the hands of the priest celebrant,” I wonder whether it is meant to exclude a deacon.These ministers should not approach the altar before the priest has received Communion, and they are always to receive from the hands of the priest celebrant the vessel containing either species of the Most Holy Eucharist for distribution to the faithful.
- The priest may be assisted in the distribution of Communion by other priests who happen to be present. If such priests are not present and there is a very large number of communicants, the priest may call upon extraordinary ministers to assist him, e.g., duly instituted acolytes or even other faithful who have been deputed for this purpose. In case of necessity, the priest may depute suitable faithful for this single occasion.