Communicant Register
The Communicant Register , also known as the Communicant Register , was a church book that was kept in Evangelical Lutheran parishes in many places from the early modern period until the 20th century .
Anyone wishing to receive ( communicate ) the Lord's Supper on a Sunday or a public holiday registered with the pastor on a pre-determined working day . This was followed by an obligatory private confession and absolution . For the pastor there was also an opportunity for a catechetical admonition. On the day before the sacrament service, the so-called “confession penny” had to be paid to the sexton, and the church member was then entered in the communicant register under the date of the sacrament service . The money raised in this way was part of the pride fee and part of the pastor's salary.
The communicant registers are a valuable source of early modern population and piety history.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Lins: Penance and Confession - Sacrament of Reconciliation . In: Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber (Hrsg.): Handbook of the liturgy: liturgical science in theology and practice of the church . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 3rd completely revised edition Göttingen 2003, pp. 319–334, here p. 327.
- ↑ Lucian Hölscher : History of Protestant Piety in Germany . CH Beck, Munich 2005, p. 59.