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To: A.A. Cunningham
The Priest?

No, the people who help pass out communion.

102 posted on 04/12/2012 10:14:51 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: trailhkr1
That would be an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion not a Eucharistic Minister.

Redemptionis Sacramentum

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.

105 posted on 04/12/2012 10:59:33 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: trailhkr1; A.A. Cunningham

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!


107 posted on 04/12/2012 11:05:59 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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