What do you think of receiving communion from a lay person. The RC church up the street has a lay person making house calls to offer communion. He says he was authorized by the church to do this.
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I'm fine about it. I brought communion to the homebound & sick. Priests & Deacons need the help. We cannot expect them to do everything & the people's needs be met as well.What do you think of receiving communion from a lay person. The RC church up the street has a lay person making house calls to offer communion. He says he was authorized by the church to do this.
If the Church says it is ok then it is fine.
Um, no. An EMHC is called, has a list & goes out to give communion to Catholics that cannot go to church.Are you saying some guy is coming door-to-door, offering to do the communion thing in your living room? And he doesn't know who may or may not be a Catholic, right?
This should raise a few Catholic eyebrows.
Well, how does the OP (whose avatar emblem says he is not Catholic) know anything about this going on?Um, no. An EMHC is called, has a list & goes out to give communion to Catholics that cannot go to church.
You should ask the OP. May be a Catholic not using the icon, the possibilities are endless in OBOB.Well, how does the OP (whose avatar emblem says he is not Catholic) know anything about this going on?
I'm not ok with it. Priests or deacons should be the stewards of the Eucharist bringing it to the faithful. Clergy. Period. In the early Church that was something deacons did as well as priests, but not lay folks.
Fortunately you don't make the rules for the Catholic Church.I'm not ok with it. Priests or deacons should be the stewards of the Eucharist bringing it to the faithful. Clergy. Period. In the early Church that was something deacons did as well as priests, but not lay folks.
gurneyhalleck1 said:I'm not ok with it. Priests or deacons should be the stewards of the Eucharist bringing it to the faithful. Clergy. Period. In the early Church that was something deacons did as well as priests, but not lay folks.
I don't think just any person can distribute the Eucharist. Only those who have been called by their Bishop/priest for the purpose. The Ministry is usually only for emergency reasons due to the extreme shortage of priests (and the ministry is usually for just a few years at a time) and there is training so that respect is always shown toward our Lord in the Eucharist. There are Church documents allowing for it.
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