Communion helpers

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As extraordinary minister of holy communion in the are Roman Catholic church lay referred, in addition to the acolytes can be used only as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. Such communion helpers should “only distribute communion where an emergency requires it”.

The ministry of communion helper

The ministry of the communion helper consists primarily in distributing communion , that is, the body or blood of Christ:

(a) In cases in which the number of priests and deacons involved is so small that the service would unduly prolong without the use of helpers. The participation of a communion helper in the celebration of mass is especially permissible if, without the support of communion helpers, the chalice communion of the laity is difficult or impossible. For this purpose, if necessary, the celebrant can also delegate the service of communion helper to the faithful only for the respective mass celebration ( GORM 2002, No. 284).
(b) Furthermore, communion helpers can hand out communion from the tabernacle outside of the mass celebration (see communion celebration ) as well as deliver communion for the sick . This happens in consultation with the responsible pastor .

commissioning

The episcopal commission as communion helper is limited in time (usually five years, with the possibility of extension) and geographically (own parish or pastoral care unit). If possible, it should take place in a liturgical celebration. It does not establish any other liturgical or other function in the parish, but under certain circumstances the same person can combine various other tasks in the divine service ( e.g. acolyte , lecturer ), but this tends to be detrimental to the desired variety of liturgical services . The service as communion helper is also not a prerequisite for taking on one of these tasks. A future deacon and priest must serve as a commissioned acolyte prior to ordination . Divine service representatives are also increasingly being used as communion helpers.

Communion helper in the celebration of the Eucharist

For the German dioceses, the German Bishops' Conference permitted the “dispensing of Holy Communion by lay people” on March 12, 1968. This permission, then limited to “suitable male persons”, was initially valid for three years.

According to the decision of the German Bishops' Conference of 1968, communion helpers should only be used in the celebration of the Eucharist if "otherwise too long a duration in the distribution of Holy Communion cannot be avoided". In fact, communion helpers did not remain the exception in the Eucharistic celebrations in most parishes in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, but rather became the rule. The instruction Redemptionis sacramentum “about some things regarding the Most Holy Eucharist that are to be observed and avoided” from March 25, 2004 is mentioned, for example, in the handout The giving of communion and the communion helper service in the Archdiocese of Vienna (2015), the restrictions are mentioned therein however not quoted.

The customary use of communion helpers or acolytes to give communion, which is not justified by real needs, does not, however, correspond to church order.

Communion helper in church services without a priest

At the request of the Berlin Ordinaries Conference on April 30, 1964, the Holy See granted permission for a European country for the first time for one year that in the diaspora areas in the GDR at the Sunday services celebrated there after the Second World War without priests, “lay and House devotions "and later called station service , Holy Communion could be donated by suitable lay people. This regulation meant a great upswing for this form of worship, so that the permit was extended on December 20, 1966 and, with the Instructio de cultu mysterii eucharistici of May 25, 1967, extended to the entire Roman Catholic Church. The Praise of God (1975) offered under no. 370 the procedure and text suggestions for a "communion celebration" called priestless worship.

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  1. ^ Instruction Redemptionis sacramentum, no.88.Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ Instruction Redemptionis sacramentum, No. 158. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ Franz Nikolasch: Art. Communion helper . In: RGG, 4th ed., Vol. 4: I – K , Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2001, Sp. 1522.
  4. ↑ Liturgisches Jahrbuch , Vol. 18 (1968), pp. 253-254.
  5. ↑ Diocese of Essen: Church Official Gazette , vol. 11 (1968), p. 45f., No. 88.
  6. ^ Chrysostomus Ripplinger: Communion helpers and their liturgical service . Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer, revised new edition 2016, p. 47ff.
  7. ^ Liturgical Commission of the Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of Vienna (ed.): The giving of communion and the communion helper service in the Archdiocese of Vienna , revision of the 3rd edition, Liturgiereferat der Erzdiözese Wien, Vienna 2015 ,. P. 40.
  8. ↑ Vatican, Congregation for the Clergy, Instruction on Certain Questions Concerning Lay Associates in the Ministry of Priests, 1997, Art. 8: “In order not to cause confusion, avoid and abolish some practices that have been emerging in some particular Churches for some time, such as for example: […] - the habitual use of extraordinary communion donors in Holy Mass with arbitrary expansion of the term "numerous participation". "
  9. ^ Hugo Aufderbeck : Station service. Communion celebration. Texts for Sunday services without priests in the diaspora outstations. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1979, p. 3ff.