Necessity is the mother of invention.
Explaining this Archbishop Marcel Gervais said it is time for lay members and married deacons to play a larger role. In the parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes in Vanier, a suburb of Ottawa, the parish priest died recently and the assistant is on kidney dialysis. Pastoral co-ordinators have also been appointed in Orleans and in Marionville and Chute a Blondeau. The one thing pastoral coordinators cannot do is consecrate the elements for communion. But in many parts of the world the parish priest has a private mass to consecrate large numbers of wafers which lay people then take for services in nursing homes and distant congregations.