Self-Service Communion

[Snowcatpa]

[color=purple] I recently attended a mass where the priest didn't have a Eucharistic Minister with him, so he give the Eucharist to those in attendence and if you wanted wine you went to the little side table and sort of served yourself. I would've thought he'd have just served the Eucharist and not the wine in that instance, like I've seen done at most other masses where there isn't a Eucharistic Minister.

It really didn't seem right to me...but that doesn't mean that it's not (I don't know everything ). Is it all right to have communion in that way? [/color]

[Cam42]

[quote name='Snowcatpa' date='Oct 7 2005, 09:36 AM'][color=purple] I recently attended a mass where the priest didn't have a Eucharistic Minister with him, so he give the Eucharist to those in attendence and if you wanted wine you went to the little side table and sort of served yourself. I would've thought he'd have just served the Eucharist and not the wine in that instance, like I've seen done at most other masses where there isn't a Eucharistic Minister.

It really didn't seem right to me...but that doesn't mean that it's not (I don't know everything  ). Is it all right to have communion in that way? [/color]
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Nope. It is not.

[quote name='Redmeptionis Sacramentum #94']It is not licit for the faithful “to take . . . by themselves . . . and, still less, to hand . . . from one to another” the sacred host or the sacred chalice.  Moreover, in this regard, the abuse is to be set aside whereby spouses administer Holy Communion to each other at a Nuptial Mass.[/quote]

[quote name='RS 184']Any Catholic, whether Priest or Deacon or lay member of Christ’s faithful, has the right to lodge a complaint regarding a liturgical abuse to the diocesan Bishop or the competent Ordinary equivalent to him in law, or to the Apostolic See on account of the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.  It is fitting, however, insofar as possible, that the report or complaint be submitted first to the diocesan Bishop. This is naturally to be done in truth and charity.[/quote]

I think that it is time for you to talk to your local Ordinary. That is a major abuse.