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Article: Vatican fine-tunes details of Mass.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2003
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Byline: David O'Reilly
PHILADELPHIA _ 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 Philadelphia's 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."
It was not the title's mouthful of syllables that ...