Since 1979, he has been a Eucharistic minister at a Catholic church near his home.

Elise is also a Eucharistic minister, and several of the children are altar servers.

Also, eucharistic ministers take the sacramental elements to the sick in hospitals and nursing homes.

They are devout, mostly middle-aged or older, and many are eucharistic ministers, parish council members, Sunday school teachers.

Increasingly, women, many of them nuns, serve as parish administrators, liturgical readers and eucharistic ministers.

Volunteers from the congregation also serve as lay eucharistic ministers, lectors and ushers.

He is a eucharistic minister in the Roman Catholic Church who has given communion to his parents.

Over and over, the woman, a eucharistic minister herself, gave the same response.

My father was a Eucharistic minister, and two of my uncles are priests.

I have heard that one day there will priestless parishes, and communion services conducted by special eucharistic ministers.