Posted on 04/11/2012 5:08:39 PM PDT by Salvation
The Priest?
No, the people who help pass out communion.
but what I love is the constant bashing of what women do or don't do....
men used to fill the ranks of ushers,Knights of Columbus, the choir, etc...
men used to wear suits and ties to church...
men used to actually go to church...
but no, the important thing is women not wearing a hat....*sigh*
My wife has continued to wear her veil to mass for years. We moved 2 years ago, sold the house and rented to be closer to my office. Now we attend a very wealthy Parish and she feels somewhat “uncomfortable” wearing the veil. Wealthy people make us both rather uncomfortable and I’m surprised at how unfriendly they are.
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 Christs 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.
Although I detest man bashing, is a lot of it the fault of women?
I wish, too, that there were more men lectors, greeters, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion.
Woemn are really not supposed to be in the altar area.
I also do not like girls serving Mass.
I think a lot of liberal stuff slid through when Vatican II went through.
Watch as Pope Benedict cleans things up. Already Communion on the tongue is a norm in a couple of dioceses. Some churches have put the Communion rail back in too.
God bless.
There is only one Eucharistic minister at each Mass (the officiating priest) unless a church has a lot of priests or deacons on staff.
I think you are talking about lay people, and they are called “Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion.” The priest is the “ordinary” distributor of Holy Communion.
Additionally, women are not supposed to be in the altar area......watch as Pope Benedict cleans house!
Good for you!
If you want to see why we should not receive Communion in the hand, have someone put an unconsecrated host in your black-gloved hands.
When you pick it up, you will see all the particles left on your black-gloved hand.
Since it wouldn’t be too cool to be licking the particles of a CONSECRATED HOST, the actually body and blood of Christ, off ones hands, you will change to receiving Communion on your tongue.
Try it!
I hate dressing in a suit and tie, but I see the author’s point.
I was looking through an elderly CT relative’s scrapbook, and the photos of the procession in a traditional 1940s church were breathtaking.
It’s inarguable that much has been lost.
The woman "lay ministers" in my church walk right across the altar towards their various locations in the church after receiving their communion. They do it all the time.
Keep on believing what you want. If anything the Catholic church will become more welcoming to woman. This is 2012 after all.
Good to know that this is being requiried.
Indeed. If only we could keep more people out of church. That would be a success.
I heard of a church that offered wraparound skirts as well as shawlls to scantily dressed women.
I’d love to give one to a 40+ woman who wear skirt much too short for her.
Communal HPV-2 STD virus anyone?? The Priest is going to hit the saliva of someone sooner or later and pass it along.With 30%+ of people now having STD's especially among the younger set.
Same thing as people sipping from the communal wine glass and just wiping it off with a knapkin. Sickening.
Do you realize how easy it is to pass the STD HPV-2? Hint you can get it from just a slight kiss with no saliva.
I'm waiting for the class action laws suits when a group of people catch something through your old fashioned ways.
Hey, the hats were really tiny...I didn’t explain that. Sorry.
I think you are probably a much better parent than I ever was or ever will be.
Blessings
That woman should have gotten a wraparound skirt, huh? Unbelievable.
HPV-2 should read HSV-2
I have big straw hats! They would fall off when I tried to pick up the baby, or bash another choir member right in the glasses ...
I like to wear my headscarf when I go to Mass without all the children, especially in the winter when it’s drafty in the Redneck Evangelical Catholic Party Barn.
No, no one is saying that the really important thing is whether or not women wear hats and veils. This thread is a reaction to a rather nostalgic and admittedly unserious article Msr Pope wrote, in which he seems to pine for some of the cherished memories of his youth. It seems to hit a nerve with some people because the hat is a symbol of a bygone era in which certain standards, traditions, and duties were respected. There are many Catholics, many Protestants, and many other Freepers who are decidedly unhappy about the way tradition was swept away by liberalism during the sixties and seventies, and as part of an effort to prevent this process from going forward, or at least to slow it, we try to preserve tradition.
OK, everybody, you’ve had your effect on me. Tomorrow morning I’m wearing a pretty piece of lace veiling as a mantilla. It’s been sitting in my drawer since my mother gave it to me for some unknown purpose 30 years ago, and I might as well use it to show my solidarity with church tradition. So there. :-)
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