Concurrence

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Concomitancy is the scholastic idea that in the celebration of the Eucharist the totality of the sacramentally present Lord is given, in such a way that the blood of Christ is contained in the figure of the body of Christ and vice versa. The communicant receives the blood of Christ with the host and vice versa. This explains and legitimizes the practice, which has been widespread in the Catholic Church since the 12th century, that although the priest always drinks from the chalice during communion, the community usually only communicates under the form of bread.

Reasons for communion under a figure ( communio sub una specie ) of the community lie mainly in the area of ​​practicality. "Reasons that favored the sub una specie donation were, above all, rites of reverence, concern about the dishonor of the sacrament and practical problems of donation (especially for sick people who were afraid of vomiting), the tradition of the liturgy of the prescribes adopted from the Eastern Church ( especially communion of only the body of Christ by the celebrant in the Good Friday service [...]) as well as the permanent storage of the consecrated wine, which poses a particular challenge. Ps. Thomas Aquinas, De sacramento altaris, cap. 20 (ed. Parma 17, 172), adds the difficulty of obtaining valuable vessels, the risk of being buried in the event of a large crowd and the prevention of false beliefs. "

The Hussites , Luther and other reformers reintroduced chalice communion in their congregations , so that in the Lutheran church the congregation receives the body and blood of Christ with bread and wine (communio sub utraque specie) . At the same time, Lutheran theology also adheres to concomitancy. The totus Christ (“the whole Christ”) is received under body and blood. Separation is rejected.

literature

  • James J. Megivern: Concomitance and Communion. A Study in Eucharistic Doctrine and Practice (Studia Friburgensia NS 33), Freiburg / Schw .: University Press 1963.
  • Heinrich Schepers : Art. Konkomitanz , in: HWPh 4 (1976), 967f.
  • Hans Jorissen , Art. Konkomitanz , in: LThK , 3rd ed., Vol. 6 (1997), 263.
  • Matthias Laarmann: concomitancy and communion under both forms . For discussion from the 15th to the beginning of the 17th century. In: Benjamin Dahlke / Bernhard Knorn (ed.): An authority for dogmatics? Thomas Aquinas in modern times. Festschrift for Leonhard Hell [for his 60th birthday]. Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 2018 (284 p.), Pp. 60–74.

Web links

Wiktionary: Konkomitanz  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Matthias Laarmann: Konkomitanz and communion under both forms. For discussion from the 15th to the beginning of the 17th century. In: Dahlke, Benjamin / Knorn, Bernhard (ed.): An authority for dogmatics? Thomas Aquinas in modern times. Festschrift for Leonhard Hell [for his 60th birthday]. Freiburg i.Br .: Herder 2018, pp. 60–74, there 61, note 9.