[sinkspur]

Let me repeat: lay lectors, Eucharistic Ministers, communion in the hand, and under both kinds are common practice in the Lincoln diocese. If you'd like the name of a priest there who can verify this, I'll have to get his permission to send you his e-mail so you can contact him.

[wideawake]

Let me repeat: lay lectors, Eucharistic Ministers, communion in the hand, and under both kinds are common practice in the Lincoln diocese.

I'm not disputing that they are used in the Lincoln diocese.

What one will not see there are priests sitting on their duffs while only laity distribute communion, people passing the chalice around the pews, teens in bare-midriff outfits reading the Epistle, etc. as happens quite often in my diocese.

One will also see Masses in that diocese where a priest will do the readings and solely distribute Communion - as opposed to my diocese where a congregation of 20 people apparently necessitates two extraordinary Eucharistic ministers.