Taking Hosts home if no daily Mass

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Can one receive extra Hosts if there’s no daily Mass and you’re only able to attend a weekend Mass?
 
No. Hosts usually aren’t to leave the church unless an EMHC is bringing it to the homebound.
 
NO!
Inquire if there is a Communion Service. Or go to another nearby parish.
 
No, if you mean that you would like to attend daily Mass and receive, but there is 'only" a weekend (Sat or Sun) Mass available to you.

First, it is not a requirement to receive communion at any given Mass (just to receive communion, in a state of grace, in the Easter season). So even if you attended daily Mass, you do not ‘have to’ receive communion at any of the Masses.

Second, the reception of our Lord ordinarily takes place in the setting of a liturgy (Mass, communion service) and the reception of the Eucharist “at home” i.e. outside liturgy is typically only for extraordinary (not ordinary) circumstances --being unable to get to Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation Mass (the times that one is required to attend) and having it brought to you by a priest, deacon, or an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, for example. Being unable to attend a daily Mass (a wonderful option, but not an obligation) is not an ‘extraordinary circumstance’ whereby a ordinary or extraordinary minister of Holy Communion would be required to bring you communion at your desire.

Third, if you cannot attend daily Mass and receive communion there, make a Spiritual Communion (during Sunday Mass on EWTN they always ‘speak’ the words for a Spiritual communion, and prayers for such can be found online).
Offer up your suffering (and it is suffering to wish that one could receive, but not be able to) for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, or in reparation for sins against the Holy Spirit, or for whatever you feel called by the Lord. .

God bless you.
 
As to why you can’t… at the least it would require self communication which only a priest or bishop may do.
 
“Absolutely not” was a sufficient answer. “Jesus is not a snack” is an uncharitable response, given the context of the OP’s question…
 
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Not really, The original question asks about “extra” Hosts. As if Jesus were a can of Pringles that one could grab a snack pack for.
 
[131.] Apart from the prescriptions of canon 934 § 1,

"It is forbidden to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in a place that is not subject in a secure way to the authority of the diocesan Bishop…

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html

Can. 934 §1. The Most Holy Eucharist:

1/ must be reserved in the cathedral church or its equivalent, in every parish church, and in a church or oratory connected to the house of a religious institute or society of apostolic life;

2/ can be reserved in the chapel of the bishop and, with the permission of the local ordinary, in other churches, oratories, and chapels.

Can. 935 No one is permitted to keep the Eucharist on one’s person or to carry it around, unless pastoral necessity urges it and the prescripts of the diocesan bishop are observed.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3C.HTM
 
First off … no. How would one do this anyway without committing sacrilege? Even a convent has to have special permission from the local bishop to have the Eucharist in reserve in a tabernacle.
 
However, for several centuries, it was a common practice. I am not suggesting that we revisit it, but it is not like this is something totally out of the ballpark as a question. Practice and law have changed and do not permit it; but not everyone is familiar with all of the laws.
 
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Can one receive extra Hosts if there’s no daily Mass and you’re only able to attend a weekend Mass?
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Many years ago my parish had a very serious and orthodox pastor. I could not make the daily Masses at 8:00 and noon because of my work schedule. I asked him if we could implement a Wednesday night Mass? I would arrange for everything (except the celebrant) from the reader to the server, to the setup, etc. He declined. So instead I would stop by church and pray in front of the tabernacle on Wednesdays in a completely deserted church (I have the combination.)

After 6 months or so he gave me a copy of the official ritual for “communion services” and invited me to conduct a communion service for myself when I came to pray on Wednesdays. Not doubting his orthodoxy I did for over 5 years until we got a new pastor. Every once in a while others would join the service – people that he specifically guided into the church. A few times a year he would instead celebrate the Mass for us.

It was the most intense prayer of my life. A completely silent church, a wonderful prayer order/formula (I would add a short reading from one of the Church Fathers) and the Blessed Sacrament. Certainly not the Mass, but something I am thankful I experienced.

Maybe you can ask your priest about holding a Mass once a week at night, or whenever you can make it?
 
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No, such would be an abuse.

Even “Extraordinary Ministers” MUST be approved by the Pastor
 
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No, such would be an abuse.

Even “Extraordinary Ministers” MUST be approved by the Pastor
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Actually they are commissioned by the local ordinary.
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In nearly 100% of cases, or pretty darn close to that, bishops depute that task to the pastors. It is the installed offices of Acolyte and Lector, which are restricted to men only, that must be installed by the bishop.
 
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In nearly 100% of cases, or pretty darn close to that, bishops depute that task to the pastors. It is the installed offices of Acolyte and Lector, which are restricted to men only, that must be installed by the bishop.
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Not around here…

Acolytes and lectors are not “installed.” They are permanently instituted.
 
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