Is this right?
  • TLMlover
    Posts: 109
    Hi all,

    Today our two altar servers received Holy Communion by entering the Communion line and receiving after everyone else. I have never, ever seen this done before. When I commented about this to the one of the servers (68 years old), he said he was trained that way since he started serving as a child in the mid 1960s.

    This strikes me as very odd, especially because he was trained and started serving before the N.O. was invented.

    Am I wrong?

  • davido
    Posts: 1,181
    You’re not
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,063
    I have never seen that before. You are not wrong.
  • TLMlover
    Posts: 109
    Thank goodness. Just another N.O. insanity then. Sigh.
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 440
    Mid 1960s wasn't before the N.O. was invented, it was a period of liturgical transformations.

    Regarding this particular sign I admit I pretty much like it. It communicates a vision of the church I can relate to. A church which is intentionally flat and doesn't introduce unnecessary symbolic distinctions. No special place or time of communion separating the altar servers from the rest of the community, just the same single communion line for everyone.
  • TLMlover
    Posts: 109
    Ummm...
  • FSSPmusic
    Posts: 476
    Wuest, Matters Liturgical, 1959:

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    But of course there is the (to put it mildly...) unfortunate principle in the novus ordo that things aren't necessarily to be done the same way as in the old rite unless specifically stated.
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