Lay Eucharistic Visitor

[benedictine]

Is anyone here a Lay Eucharistic Visitor? (this person takes the Eucharist to thsoe who cannot get to church) What kind of training does this entail? Are there any specific requirements to be one?

[benedictine]

Nobody? :(

[PaladinValer]

No clue, although the priest is coming by to give the Body and Blood to my mother, who is currently recovering from a nasty operation to repair her vertibrae.

[Polycarp1]

Most dioceses have training for lay readers/chalice bearers, the latter being required to be licensed. In the Diocese of North Carolina, a parish may have one layman licensed to administer the bread at a service as well, and a given number of parishioners who are LEMII's (Lay Eucharistic Ministers to the Ill and Infirm). They undergo additional training and are, I believe, specially licensed by the Bishop. Details not known; my wife is a licensed chalice bearer but has never had the additional training for the other jobs.