electricdisk Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 (edited) Personally, I find this refreshing (in a way), but lo and behold, there are some people who seem to think they can act in place of the priest and they don't like it. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7538931.htm Jim Rosengarten gasped when he learned the Vatican wants him to stop calling himself a eucharistic minister. Rosengarten may still distribute communion to shut-ins and at Mass at St. Vincent's parish in Germantown, as he has done for years. But under the Roman Catholic Church's new guidelines for the celebration of Mass, the men and women who assist the priest this way are expected to henceforth use their proper titles. They are "extraordinary ministers of holy communion." "Oh, my God," Rosengarten exclaimed. "What a shame." Edited December 23, 2003 by electricdisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foundsheep Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Its about time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Thank God. I've noticed an uprise in orthodoxy in the Church lately, especially with young people. It's refreshing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 yep. We instituted these norms starting in this past September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geetarplayer Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Jim used the Lord's name in vain. -Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperdulia again Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 this article had me crackin' up y'all...american catholics are sad lazy disobedient people...we should trade with the anglicans, our heterodox psychos for their almost catholics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geetarplayer Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 I think it's dumb that feminists think the Catholic Church is oppressing them. -Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 think it's dumb that feminists think the Catholic Church is oppressing them. word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 The cynic in me says "why don't they just go become Episcopalians if they want feel-goody Catholic lite?" -- I get irritated by people that call themselves "Catholics" but enjoy the comforts of "do-it-yourself-religion" Some Anglicans/Episcopals call themselves Catholic, and I never understood that. *gotta stop before I sound too snotty* *I should eat, I'm being grumpy* :eat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinner Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 To the best of my knowledge the GIRM has always used the term "extraordinary ministers of holy communion." Some of us have been cringing in the pews for some time now. My Parish bulletin continues to use the term continuously. As it is now, I am praying and waiting........ as is usual with disobedience --give em an inch and they'll take a mile.... hopefully it is ignorance on the part of most; but there are the few that use small issues of disobedience to gain footholds for larger issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroX Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Sinner has a good point ( but a really scary avatar!) . Most of these "changes" are really what we should have been doing all along. It has never been OK for EEMs to break the bread, and our theology has never taught that the Priest and the congregation are one. Bah Humbug! peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_rev Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 We put the changes in effect in our dioceses in Advent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary's Knight, La Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 you could see virtually the whole parish isn't interested in loyalty to the church Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 While some members of St. Vincent's have welcomed the return to strict practice, or orthopraxy, others are very upset, according to Rosengarten, a history teacher at Central High School. A few even wept when the parish made the changes. Ummm, they wept? Something tells me these people need a life. About 25 members of the parish have begun protesting the Vatican's changes by wrapping purple stoles, or scarves, at the base of the sanctuary cross after communion. I wonder what kind of changes they would implement if they laid their sins at the foot of the cross rather than their clothes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 Yep. But you bet that thought never occurred to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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