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The term "Eucharistic Minister", or more properly a Lay Eucharistic Minister (LEM), denotes a lay person who assists the priest in administering the elements of Holy Communion, the consecrated bread and wine. [1] They may also take the sacrament to those who are ill, or otherwise unable to attend the church service.
An instituted acolyte is an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion by virtue of his institution. [7] Such acolytes are, in practice, seminarians or former seminarians, or those in deacon formation, although canon law allows the ministry to be conferred on any lay people, men or women, who have the age and qualifications that the episcopal conference is to lay down.
While bishops, priests and deacons are ordinary ministers of holy communion, [1] only someone who has been validly ordained as a priest is a minister of the Eucharist. [2] If a priest is, for some reason, debarred [3] and yet celebrates the Eucharist, he does so illicitly (i.e. against canon law), but the Eucharist is still valid.
Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]
In addition to his pastoral ministry, Champlin served as the Diocesan Director of Parish Life and Worship, and associate director in the Liturgy Secretariat for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC. [1] Champlin was an enthusiastic supporter of the institution of the ministry of Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion.
Catholic bishops are ordained in an unbroken line of apostolic succession back to the Twelve Apostles depicted in the Catholic Bible. The ceremony of Eucharist, which can only be confected by priests, in particular derives from the story of the Last Supper, when Jesus Christ distributed bread and wine in the presence of the Twelve Apostles, in ...
The Catholic League criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Friday for posting a video showing her feeding a Dorito to a podcaster, with the group accusing her of mocking the Eucharist.
The only ministers who can officiate at the Eucharist and consecrate the sacrament are ordained priests (either bishops or priestly presbyters) acting in the person of Christ ("in persona Christi"). In other words, the priest celebrant represents Jesus himself, who is the Head of the Church, and acts before God the Father in the name of the ...