That's just not true.We might as well ask the lay to celebrate Mass and hear confessions since the lack of clergy is the excuse.
We might as well ask the lay to celebrate Mass and hear confessions since the lack of clergy is the excuse.
To equate saying Mass, or hearing confessions to carrying a consecrated Host, under the supervision of a priest, to a sick person, is just, well, ludicrous.We might as well ask the lay to celebrate Mass and hear confessions since the lack of clergy is the excuse.
Shame on you for saying something so...so..well, unspeakable in this forum. You are free to have a preference for the clergy distributing the Eucharist. You are not free to deny Church history and state the demonstrable falsehood that allowing for EMHCs is somehow akin to asking laypeople to administer the Sacrament of Penance or celebrate the Mass. You know better. Do better.
If you have not noticed it was sarcasm, I in no way shape or form support such liberalism, neither do I as a Catholic support "EMHC" which I find to be a plain split from Roman Catholic tradition. I could not picture any Pre-V2 Popes ever accepting such a modernist practice, this is as bad as altar girls but "who am I to judge?"
To equate saying Mass, or hearing confessions to carrying a consecrated Host, under the supervision of a priest, to a sick person, is just, well, ludicrous.
By the way, anyone can hear a confession. In fact it's kind of a joke among newly ordained deacons.
To equate saying Mass, or hearing confessions to carrying a consecrated Host, under the supervision of a priest, to a sick person, is just, well, ludicrous.
By the way, anyone can hear a confession. In fact it's kind of a joke among newly ordained deacons.
I think he was trying to point out the ridiculous nature of the excuse of "well we should be allowed to do it because there is a priest shortage".
As far as hearing a confession, you are right in that anyone can hear one. Happens all the time in psychiatrist/psychologist's offices, to doctors, to bar tenders, in locker rooms, on TV (Dr. Phil and some of the other weird shows where people "air their dirty laundry" to the television audience) and just about any time people start to gossip with each other. The difference? In the Sacrament of Confession there aren't "brags"--the person accuses himself and asks for forgiveness...to God in the person of the priest. He also receives it and the grace to at least help the person not to sin again.
Well, how does the OP (whose avatar emblem says he is not Catholic) know anything about this going on?
Isn't the alternate to the Sacrament of Confession with a priest, confessing to the entire congregation? I think that'd take some huge balls to do...
Actually people do it all the time only they don't call it "Confession" and they aren't very humble. They brag about their antics in locker rooms or to their friends and neighbors, and they tell their deepest darkest secrets to psychologists/psychiatrists and sometimes to those awful shows like "Dr. Phil", those court television show like "Judge Judy", or "Divorce Court", and I even briefly saw one where couples would fight in front of an audience and the audience got to vote on fought best!
Thinking about this more, I read somewhere that a lay person can offer extreme unction to a dying person if a priest is not available. So it would make sense that a lay person can offer communion when a priest is not available. I guess I'd just prefer a priest, because they give me good spiritual guidance.
Isn't the alternate to the Sacrament of Confession with a priest, confessing to the entire congregation? I think that'd take some huge balls to do...