What Good Is That, Simple Wafer?

My mother attends church seven days a week, Catholic Mass, but she would prefer in the extreme to receive the Most Holy Communion from the priest and only the priest - no extraordinary ministers and certainly no extraordinary ministers of the female variety for her.  During the week it's not an issue: the priest handles Communion for the smaller crowds.  But on Sundays, when there's a sizable turnout and extraordinary ministers are often employed, I have seen her walk the interior perimeter of a church in order to avoid one, to get to a priest no matter how far away.  Because, as is widely known, once an extraordinary minister (male or female) touches the Host, the effects of Transubstantiation are rendered null and void via a process called Immediate Negation (citation needed), the Host returning to simple wafer form.  And what good is that, simple wafer, when it's no longer the Body of Christ - when it's just a symbol of Christ's redemptive power, and nothing more?


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