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It helps me to see how everything fits together, so I am thinking of the presider at the Eucharistic liturgy as the community leader. That person's job is to draw the people together around the whole point of their being present and what it means.so it isn't just one ministry among many in the parish. All the ministries serve the mission…
It helps me to see how everything fits together, so I am thinking of the presider at the Eucharistic liturgy as the community leader. That person's job is to draw the people together around the whole point of their being present and what it means.So it isn't just one ministry among many in the parish. All the ministries serve the mission and lay people can lead most of them. I am in dire need of coherence, Paul, so I may be overemphasizing the Eucharistic leadership role. Can you see how I am envisioning it? I suppose we could have a lay person with the leadership role and an ordained person to preside at the sacramental liturgies, but separates the two roles. Some parishes in my diocese do it like that. The lay leader is an administrator and the sacramental minister is hired to come in on weekends. Changes the dynamic.