Pew-sitter Kelly Clark notices how impatient we can be about receiving Holy Communion, but figures that catering to this impatience by adding Extraordinary Ministers doesn’t really help. Comments continue over at Dom’s.
My seminarian friend Bro. Matt tells a story: he went to a weekday Mass once and found that he and two ladies were the whole congregation. The two were apparently parish regulars used to serving as EMEs, so at the usual time they went forward to the sanctuary, ostensibly to assist Father. The two ladies gave the Sacrament to each other, and the priest gave Holy Communion to Matt. He says in that Mass he was the Extraordinary Recipient of the Eucharist.