the following segment is interesting ..........
The New Norms for Holy Communion
The new official norms for the Communion Rite promise to bring new clarity to how the Church expects her sacraments to be observed.
The new Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR), the rules for celebration of Mass in the revised Roman Missal, had stressed the requirement that Eucharistic bread be unleavened.
The new US Norms for Communion in Both Kinds permit the use of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion when necessary:
When recourse is had to extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion ... their number should not be increased beyond what is required for the orderly and reverent distribution of the Body and Blood of the Lord. (Norms §28)
The norms do not discourage intinction:
In practice, the need to avoid obscuring the role of the priest and the deacon as the ordinary ministers of Holy Communion by an excessive use of extraordinary ministers might in some circumstances constitute a reason either for limiting the distribution of Holy Communion under both species or for using intinction instead of distributing the Precious Blood from the chalice. (Norms §24)
Extraordinary Ministers are not to assist at the fraction rite:
As the Agnus Dei or Lamb of God is begun, the bishop or priest alone, or with the assistance of the deacon, and if necessary of concelebrating priests, breaks the Eucharistic bread.
Other empty chalices and ciboria or patens are then brought to the altar if this is necessary. The deacon or priest places the consecrated bread in several ciboria or patens and, if necessary, pours the Precious Blood into enough additional chalices as are required for the distribution of Holy Communion. (Norms §37)
Only after the fraction rite do the extraordinary ministers approach the altar.
If extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion are required by pastoral need, they approach the altar as the priest receives Communion. After the priest has concluded his own Communion, he distributes Communion to the extraordinary ministers ... (Norms §38)
The procedure for the reception of Communion by extraordinary ministers follows the rules in the new IGMR:
The practice of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion waiting to receive Holy Communion until after the distribution of Holy Communion is not in accord with liturgical law. (Norms §39)
Contrary to Father Hovda's instructions:
The reverence due to the Precious Blood of the Lord demands that it be fully consumed after Communion is completed and never be poured into the ground or the sacrarium. (Norms §55)
Extraordinary ministers may consume what remains of the Blood of Christ if the diocesan bishop gives permission. (Norms §52) According to a letter from Cardinal Medina, this is permitted "given the grave and overriding need to safeguard the Precious Blood".
The Norms themselves make no provision for Extraordinary Ministers to purify the vessels; however, a separate decree from the Congregation states that
for grave pastoral reasons, the faculty may be given by the diocesan bishop to the priest celebrant to use the assistance, when necessary, even of extraordinary ministers in the cleansing of sacred vessels after the distribution of Communion has been completed in the celebration of Mass. This faculty is conceded for a period of three years as a dispensation from the norm of the Institutio Generalis, editio typica tertia of the Roman Missal.
In parishes where innovations for the celebration of Mass promoted by Hovda, Huck, Irwin, et al., have been practiced, people may need to be told that the Norms require (in the words of Father Hovda) "a radical break with our immediate past and our entrenched habits".
Some may find change difficult. Liturgists who relentlessly promoted schemes for "a radical relocation of the experience of transcendence" -- with its underlying defective sacramental theology -- may find it particularly difficult. But Catholics who long for more reverent worship will welcome the new norms that put the "experience of transcendence" back where it has always belonged.
In our parish, glass bowls constitute the ciboria. It is the priest who places the consecrated hosts in them. However, it is an extraordinary minister who pours the Precious Blood into glass chalices.
While I do not know this for a fact, I tend to believe that the glass "bowls" and "chalices" were purchased at the local A.C. Moore Craft Store. On more than one occasion, I have found our pastor shopping there.