Services of the Word are no offence to God
SIR – In his letter (October 11) Donato Tallo terms the practice of Liturgies of the Word and Holy Communion a “serious blight on the Catholic Faith”.
In the parish that I attend on weekdays, Services of the Word and Holy Communion are held on the parish priest’s day off. There is a rota of eight lay men and women who are commissioned ministers of Communion, and they follow the outline provided in the document “Celebrations of the Word and Communion ... in the Absence of a Priest”, produced by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and approved for use from November 2013.
