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To: Romulus

Too many younger Catholics, even my daughter who had an excellent Catholic high school education, persist in calling the Host the bread. When I correct her she informs me that the Eucharistic ministers in our parish, she is one as well, routinely refer to the Host as bread when deciding who does which assignment during Communion.


15 posted on 02/25/2008 7:01:14 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: xkaydet65
she informs me that the Eucharistic ministers in our parish, she is one as well, routinely refer to the Host as bread

Sigh. Her education may be excellent in other respects, but her formation as a Catholic is gravely deficient. She is not a "eucharistic minister". Only a priest is a minister of the eucharist. Your daughter is an "Extraordinary" (wink, wink) minister of Holy Communion. Her function has nothing whatever to do with the eucharistic, sacrificial core of the Mass, only with the functionary aspect of distributing the Blessed Sacrament. And you'll forgive my saying so, but she shouldn't be. She is being used by those who should know better, to disobey direct instructions from the Vatican about the rare occasions (never routine) when EMHCs are permissible. She is being used by "meal people" who assert the Blessed Sacrament is more about us and our fellowship than about the true, substantial presence of Christ. She is being used by those who certainly know better, to blur the unique priestly character, representing the Personhood of Christ as Divine Bridegroom and therefore inescapably Male. I don't mean to insult your daughter or give offense, but sacramentally speaking your daughter has been coaxed into transexualism.

The "school play" mentality of post Vatican II liturgy in which everyone is supposed to be made to feel important by being given little jobs to do lest anyone's feelings be hurt -- this has been one of the MOST damaging and destructive effects of the post Council rupture with tradition.

47 posted on 02/25/2008 9:31:43 AM PST by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: xkaydet65

NOT in my church.


55 posted on 02/25/2008 9:56:36 AM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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