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<div dir="auto">Thanks Bill</div>
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<div>From: William Watson via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca>
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<div>Date: 2025-11-24 1:09 p.m. (GMT-05:00) </div>
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<div>Cc: William Watson <bill.watson@utoronto.ca> </div>
<div>Subject: [Sundaycommunity] Fwd: Communion at Zoom masses </div>
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<div>-As expected, looks like we will stay with our current practice-we don’t want to put our priests in a difficult position.</div>
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<div>Also, note Paul’s comments about inclusions for Liturgy of the Word.</div>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date:
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<div dir="auto">Thanks, Paul, for outlining the theological reasoning and the practical implications concerning the question.
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<div dir="auto">One thought that comes to mind is Pope Francis' call to become "digital missionaries" in our increasingly digital world. How this would be worked out is a new frontier for Church...how to listen to the Spirit....how to grapple with electronic
communication in the religious world and how to appoach the question of AI and its role in humanity. Many questions for us and for future generations!</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Sure, you can pass the note onto the community </div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks for the clarification, Paul. We thought the same but I wasn’t sure if the Archdiocese/Rome had changed the policy since Covid.
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<div>We certainly don’t want to put you in a difficult position. I suspect there will be more discussion at Mass on Sunday.</div>
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<div>Would you mind if I sent your note around to he community?</div>
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<div dir="auto">I would not be comfortable with that idea if a priest is the celebrant as it is not a valid communion and furthermore if the Archdiocese found out about this practice, it would put me (and the Sunday Community) in a very difficult position.</div>
<div dir="auto">Also, I understand that there are some in the community who, when there is no priest available, wish to include in the liturgy the Offertory and the Eucharistic Prayer. This is also invalid. When there is no priest available, the community is
supposed to have a Liturgy of the Word, which only includes:</div>
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<div dir="auto">There can be no Offertory or Eucharistic Prayer as that is reserved for Mass only and is the purview of the ordained priest only as opposed to the “priesthood of the faithful.” </div>
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<div dir="auto">I hope this answers your question.</div>
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<div dir="auto">All the best,</div>
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Dear Paul, Ron and Prakash,<br>
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We had a brief discussion today at our zoom mass about the possibility of having communion at our weekly mass. We have discussed this issue before but didn’t come to any decision.<br>
One of my Anglican friends who is a former minister said they have been having Eucharist during their zoom masses for some time. Congregants would have a small piece of bread while the priest reads the Eucharistic prayer at the time of the consecration.<br>
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There seems to be a lot of interest and concern in our group and we would like your input and feedback on the idea. We may have a further discussion with group after mass next week.<br>
If it’s not acceptable to you all, then we will can the idea.<br>
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