Intinction

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Intinction ( Latin intinctio , from intingere , "to immerse") designates a special form of communion under both forms, which is accomplished by immersing the Eucharistic bread in the consecrated wine.

Traditions

The Byzantine rite of the Orthodox churches and the liturgy of the ancient oriental churches , where it is customary to mix bread and wine in a goblet to form a kind of porridge, represent a special form of intinctio . Communion is then distributed with the help of a spoon.

Intinction by the priest is an alternative to chalice communion in the Roman Catholic Church . As a result, the giving of communion is necessarily linked by intinction with the form of communion in the mouth . In the tradition of the Western Church, the intinction had been customary since the Middle Ages, especially for communion with the sick .

With the Maronites , the intinctio is the normal form of communion.

Intinction is also widespread in the Utrecht Union of Old Catholic Churches . The Old Catholic Church in Germany officially approved this form of giving communion through the altar book from 1959 for all parishes, until this missal was promulgated - with the exception of the refugee communities - only the host was donated. A few years earlier, the Old Catholic Church in Austria had already approved Intinction as the standard form of communion in its diocesan area.

In the churches of the Reformation , the blood of Christ can also be received through intinctio. However, it should be the exception.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Heinz : Intinction . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 565 .
  2. ^ Rupert Berger : Communion reception . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 6 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1997, Sp. 221 .
  3. ^ Rupert Berger: Fistula . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 3 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 1312 .
  4. ↑ Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany (ed.): Catholic Catechism of the Old Catholic Church in Germany . Diocese publisher, Bonn 1965, p. 45 .
  5. ↑ a b Kurt Pursch: Old Catholic. An information . 2nd Edition. H. Neusser, Bonn 1965, p. 44-45 .
  6. ↑ Johann Josef Demmel : What is Old Catholic? Diocese publisher, Bonn 1957, p. 10 .
  7. ↑ See e.g. B. Annex 2 of the ordinance of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office of Saxony of November 25, 2014, Section 6.9 ( Memento of January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )