The Archbishop of Dublin has warned that efforts to complete communions and confirmations in the current pandemic run the risk of reducing the administration of sacramental acts to "almost to the level of a supermarket" in which you can drop in and "get the sacrament done".
This, he said, reduces the Eucharist to a commodity. Diarmuid Martin has issued a letter regarding the pastoral situation in Dublin "under changed coronavirus norms".
Acknowledging the disappointment of families who had been ready for the celebration of First Communion and Confirmation and who now find them postponed, Archbishop Martin has expressed worry over parishes taking initiatives to "get First Communions and Confirmations done".