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Yes, I think we cannot contribute to such a Protestantizing of the Catholic liturgy with altar girls or altar ladies and extraordinary ministries. This is not Catholic. It never happened that during Mass, when there is a priest, there are black people giving communion. This is not Catholic at all. It never happened in 2000 years.
When there is a priest, he must, even when it lasts one hour, show us this. I know Orthodox priests who distribute communion, and they distribute with a spoon. I know them; sometimes, alone, it takes 40 minutes, and the people have time. We have to take time for the Lord, for Holy Communion. Why run like a cafeteria service too quickly?
So this is wrong. We have to stop all extraordinary ministries. This is a Protestantizing style, and we cannot contribute to it. Therefore, avoid these methods if possible. Of course, when there are no other possibilities, you can go, but when you have the choice, do not go to such places and do not go to their venues, altar girls. That is not Catholic. That is Protestant style.
This is an implicit advance of feminism at the altar, aiming ultimately at female orders. In such Masses, we cannot contribute with our presence. Usually, when there are no other possibilities, then you can participate, but in choice, it should be better in other places where there is true Catholic practice with no altar girls and no female ministers, even in some kind of clergy like presentation, even though they are not ordained, but they are addressed as clergy already with cassock and surplice, these altar girls and lay ministers, like in a cafeteria service.
This is unworthy. It should never be done. Only lay people, I repeat, could give communion during persecution time, when there was an absolute absence of a priest who had left, maybe to give Holy Communion to dying persons and prisoners. So it was in the first centuries and in my time in the Soviet Union during persecution, but not during Holy Mass.
This is Protestant style. This undermines the uniqueness and essential difference between the ordained priesthood and lay people.