Holy Communion by mail ‘not canonical’

[Ray1]

"A FORMER Bishop of Sodor & Man, the Rt Revd Robert Paterson, has criticised parish priests in England who have been posting consecrated bread from the eucharist to parishioners during lockdown.

Writing in the Church Times online this week, Bishop Paterson said: “No doubt the motives were pastorally well-intentioned and sincere. . . Posting the sacrament, however, seems to me to breach a fundamental principle and pander to a deeply undesirable trend.”

Holy Communion by mail ‘not canonical’

Corporate nature of sacrament should be upheld, says bishop

www.churchtimes.co.uk

 

[Alpo2]

Has the priest been smoking something? Who would even think of something like that. Seems like something from a Monty Python sketch.

 

[Stephen Philips]

This situation is from the church of England. It would be unthinkable in Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy

 

[LizaSymonenko]

What if it got lost in the mail, ended up in the junk pile, fell onto the sidewalk and was trampled, got eaten by rats, etc. ...not to mention who opens the envelope how... and the crumbs and.... Oiiiii

 

[hecma925]

It's just bread.

 

[Asteriktos]

"Holy communion by mail Anglicans 'not canonical'"

 

[hecma925]

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