Proposal To Try To End Communion In The Hand

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='inunionwithrome' post='1872675' date='May 21 2009, 05:05 PM']In our parish since I serve as an EM, we were properly trained for when people receive on the tongue. There are a lot of retired people who grew up before Vatican II and that's the way things were done. But, it's cool. [/quote]
I wasn't really taught the specifics of it when I was an EMHC, I don't think. Though it's possible I was and just don't remember it, since I was pregnant at the time. Pregnancy brain.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='MissyP89' post='1871197' date='May 19 2009, 04:27 PM']And you are so right about EMs...a lot of them touch my mouth/face or look at me funny when I open my mouth. That's why I get in the priest's line. [/quote]
When I go to Latin Churches, which is not too often anymore, I never take communion from the extraordinary minister.

Edited May 21, 2009 by Apotheoun

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1872699' date='May 21 2009, 01:16 PM']When I go to Latin Churches, which is not too often anymore, I never take communion from the extraordinary minister.[/quote]

LOL, never come to my Church then...there is an older woman who is often at my Mass (I say "my" because I am a "regular" at the 12:15) who sits right up front. One Sunday the line (going down the center aisle there are two lines, and where we sit we are always in the right line) for the priest was "backing up" because no one was going to the extraordinary minister. Receiving from them does not bother me in the slightest so I should have gone to her, but I had this priest for Confession the day before and I just wanted to receive from him. I am about four people behind Father, and the woman I mentioned earlier grabs me by the arm and pushes me towards the minister. I made a thread about this awhile ago...I basically did not know how to react. I noticed this same woman two or three weeks ago, and she was literally directing people to the minister...as opposed to PRAYING after receiving, which is, you know, what you are SUPPOSED to do.

Anyway after reading what you said, I was trying to visualize how you would react to this particular woman, ROFL.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='HisChildForever' post='1872701' date='May 21 2009, 11:38 AM']I am about four people behind Father, and the woman I mentioned earlier grabs me by the arm and pushes me towards the minister. I made a thread about this awhile ago...I basically did not know how to react. I noticed this same woman two or three weeks ago, and she was literally directing people to the minister...as opposed to PRAYING after receiving, which is, you know, what you are SUPPOSED to do.

Anyway after reading what you said, I was trying to visualize how you would react to this particular woman, ROFL.[/quote]
I would move back to the priest's line. In my Church it is contrary to tradition for lay people to distribute communion.

[Resurrexi]

It's contrary to tradition in the Latin Church too.

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1872704' date='May 21 2009, 01:53 PM']I would move back to the priest's line. In my Church it is contrary to tradition for lay people to distribute communion.[/quote]

What a boring reaction. You would then have to cut in front of people to get back to the priest, unless you went all the way to the back of the line. And there would be some confusion from this, like you would be "fighting" against two merging groups coming towards you if the woman pulled you to the side lol.

Out of curiosity, if it was a sister helping the priests distribute, would you receive from her?

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='HisChildForever' post='1872707' date='May 21 2009, 11:57 AM']Out of curiosity, if it was a sister helping the priests distribute, would you receive from her?[/quote]
No. I would not. Bishops and priests -- because of the mystery of Holy Orders -- are configured to act in the person of Christ the head, and so they are the only ones who, in the tradition of my Church, are to distribute communion. In the Eastern Churches the only "extraordinary minister" of communion is a deacon. Religious and lay people do not distribute the mysteries in the Byzantine Churches.