EXTRAORDINARY EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

POST VATICAN II

Laymen and laywomen whose function is to distribute the Host in Communion

when there is a shortage of priests. Some Roman Catholic commentators are

complaining that even when there are available priest and deacons,

extraordinary eucharistic ministers are being used. This, of course, does

not affect the validity of the sacrament, but its being licit.

From AD LIMINA TALKS, Paul VI, page 41: "They are envisioned by the

Instruction IMMENSAE CARITATIS where there is a genuine lack of ministers."

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