Unconsecrated bread

[littleredflower]

Help.
Our parish has been basically closed except.for weddings and funerals. Some members are meeting in their homes to “break bread like in the bible” with plain bread on Sundays and receiving the Eucharist during the week at a liturgy and prayer service. I tried to tell them that it was consecrated when they met in the homes in the new testament but to no avail. What else can I say.

 

[whoisdiss]

Report it to your local Bishop.

 

[littleredflower]

Help.
Our parish has been basically closed except.for weddings and funerals. Some members are meeting in their homes to “break bread like in the bible” with plain bread on Sundays and receiving the Eucharist during the week at a liturgy and prayer service. I tried to tell them that it was consecrated when they met in the homes in the new testament but to no avail. What else can I say.

 

[pianistclare]

Well, it’s not consecrated if no priest is there…

Is a priest saying Mass for them in the homes?

 

[Sonny89]

Peace and all Good!

Help.
Our parish has been basically closed except.for weddings and funerals. Some members are meeting in their homes to “break bread like in the bible” with plain bread on Sundays and receiving the Eucharist during the week at a liturgy and prayer service. I tried to tell them that it was consecrated when they met in the homes in the new testament but to no avail. What else can I say.

For Transubstantiation and Consecration there needs to be a Priest or Bishop there. In the early Church in Acts, when they met in there homes for the breaking of bread & the preaching of the Word, they always had a Priest or Bishop there, in the person of one of Apostles or those ordained and appointed by them for this purpose, to carry out the Consecration and effect Transubstantiation so that the bread could become Christ’s Body.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Help.
Our parish has been basically closed except.for weddings and funerals. Some members are meeting in their homes to “break bread like in the bible” with plain bread on Sundays and receiving the Eucharist during the week at a liturgy and prayer service. I tried to tell them that it was consecrated when they met in the homes in the new testament but to no avail. What else can I say.

There is a physical building but people are meeting in their homes? Is there a priest there because that is the only way bread can be consecrated.

I think you need to clarify the situation. Are you in the US?

 

[PaulfromIowa]

Is there an actual Sunday Mass nearby? A layperson’s bread and wine service is certainly no substitute.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

I would tell the pastor what is going on.

 

[janeway529]

Help.
Our parish has been basically closed except.for weddings and funerals. Some members are meeting in their homes to “break bread like in the bible” with plain bread on Sundays and receiving the Eucharist during the week at a liturgy and prayer service. I tried to tell them that it was consecrated when they met in the homes in the new testament but to no avail. What else can I say.

Are you sure that some members aren’t meeting for prayer or bible study and then “breaking bread” (as in an actual meal)?

 

[LouisvilleRC]

Report it to your local Bishop.

I don’t know what you would report. If they want to do this they can. It’s their decision. As long as no one from the Diocese/Parish is promoting it I think that this is their business.

 

[LouisvilleRC]

There is a physical building but people are meeting in their homes? Is there a priest there because that is the only way bread can be consecrated.

I think you need to clarify the situation. Are you in the US?

I think I know what is going on. In some Diocese in the U.S.A. parishes have been closed/merged and have become “worship sites” for a parish. They usually only have funerals and weddings offered at these sites.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I think I know what is going on. In some Diocese in the U.S.A. parishes have been closed/merged and have become “worship sites” for a parish. They usually only have funerals and weddings offered at these sites.

When that happens aren’t the parishioners absorbed by a neighboring parish? Provided this is not a rural location. Still this breaking bread thing is puzzling. Early in my faith life I was part of a scripture and leadership training from a Catholic College in the NW. One of the instructors of the class created almost a cult like following and there were weird things done, including breaking of bread by the laity and speaking the words of consecration.

 

[LouisvilleRC]

When that happens aren’t the parishioners absorbed by a neighboring parish? Provided this is not a rural location. Still this breaking bread thing is puzzling. Early in my faith life I was part of a scripture and leadership training from a Catholic College in the NW. One of the instructors of the class created almost a cult like following and there were weird things done, including breaking of bread by the laity and speaking the words of consecration.

They are. Some people just have trouble letting their parish go. Trust me, I’ve seen plenty of lay consecration and co-consecration in the progressive Catholic circles my family runs in but it’s pretty rare for an event like this to happen in a mainstream parish.