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To: annalex

As a Lay Eucharistic Minister, in the side aisles, I will say — the people who come up to receive are SO reverential. I sometimes get choked up. It moves me, every time.


25 posted on 02/12/2010 6:30:09 PM PST by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: bboop
As a Lay Eucharistic Minister,(sic)

Incorrect. You are an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Common not a Eucharistic Minister. The only Eucharistic Minister(s) at Mass is(are) the celebrant(s).

1. The Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion

[154.] As has already been recalled, “the only minister who can confect the Sacrament of the Eucharist in persona Christi is a validly ordained Priest”.[254] Hence the name “minister of the Eucharist” belongs properly to the Priest alone. Moreover, also by reason of their sacred Ordination, the ordinary ministers of Holy Communion are the Bishop, the Priest and the Deacon,[255] to whom it belongs therefore to administer Holy Communion to the lay members of Christ’s faithful during the celebration of Mass. In this way their ministerial office in the Church is fully and accurately brought to light, and the sign value of the Sacrament is made complete.

I suggest you read all of Redemptionis Sacramentum.

34 posted on 02/13/2010 8:30:01 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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