Fistula
The fistula (Latin for "pipe", "tube"; also referred to as calamus or pugillaris ) is a liturgical device that can be used in the Roman rite of the Catholic Church .
It is a tube, usually made of silver, which is used to drink the wine from the chalice during Holy Communion . This procedure was originally intended to reduce the risk of spillage. Once widespread throughout the West, the fistula was only used at the papal mass for the pope and the cardinal deacon with the waiver of chalice communion for the laity until the liturgical reform in 1969/70 . It was also widely used when taking the ablution wine .
The Roman Missal provides since 1969 the use of Fistula (now consistently calamus called) in the chalice the celebrant and the laity as a possibility. However, this exercise has not caught on and in the version of the same document from 2002 it is only regulated rubricistically for celebrants, but not for lay people.
literature
- Wolfgang Augustyn: Fistula , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 9, 1991, Col. 396-422
- Hansjakob Becker: For example "Fistula" / "Flabellum". In: Archives for liturgical science 34 (1992) 406-409.