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Rose of York	Saturday, 27. June 2009, 14:48
Administrator Posts: 14,558 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Penfold Saturday, 27. June 2009, 14:04 Rose of York Saturday, 27. June 2009, 11:09 On a slightly related topic, is this permissible: Lay led Exposition, when it is pre planned in advance that a lay person (who is an Extraordinary Minister) will place the consecrated host in the monstrance and put the monstrance on the altar for adoration. In that person's absence another EMHC will deputise. I feel uneasy about this. It is even announced it will be "led by Anthony". Code of Canon Law Can. 943 Quote: Can. 943 The minister of exposition of the blessed Sacrament and of the eucharistic blessing is a priest or deacon. In special circumstances the minister of exposition and deposition alone, but without the blessing, is an acolyte, and extraordinary minister of holy communion, or another person deputed by the local Ordinary, in accordance with the regulations of the diocesan Bishop. Is this a special circumstance: Priest has one church with two communities, he lives next door to his parish church, the other is eight miles away on the same trunk road (A class) as the presbytery, he goes there once a week to say Mass. Total combined Mass attendance about 100. Good road system, no sick parishioners living on wild inaccessible moorland or on offshore islands. The bishop said rural communities should open their churches for traditional devotions. Two lay people said they want weekly Exposition, they got it.
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