Communion

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As medical communion is called to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist by believers who some time or not at all more a result of illness or age-related ailments Mass can participate.

history

From the earliest times, one of the tasks of the church was to care for the sick, which, in addition to purely physical care and nursing, also included care for their souls. As early as the second century, Justin the Martyr attested to the practice of communion. The Council of Nicaea already mentions communion of the sick and assigns it to the sacraments of death .

Since the Carolingian reform of the liturgy, the giving of communion for the sick has been reserved for the priests alone.

Receipt of communion

Communion can be received at any time, except on Holy Saturday ; here it can only be donated as food in danger of death.

In order to enable the frequent communion of sick and old people who cannot participate in the church service, the priest can instruct deacons , communion helpers or relatives to donate communion for the sick. Communion for the sick after the Sunday Eucharist of the community is particularly useful. The host is brought to the sick person in a vessel called a pyxis . If the sick can no longer receive communion in the form of the host , it can be given as chalice communion .

As far as possible, the celebration of communion should be celebrated as part of a house service with relatives and neighbors; Those in the party can receive communion at the same time as the sick person, even under both forms.

Course of the celebration
Opening
greeting
Adoration of the most holy
realm of holy water
Confession of guilt and plea for forgiveness

Word service
reading (s)
intercessions

Communion
Prayer of the Lord
(preparatory prayer )
Invitation to communion
Communion
(silent) prayer after communion
Closing prayer

Graduation
blessing

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "And (then) the distribution and the enjoyment of the (gifts) for which thanks have been said occur for everyone, and those who are absent are sent (of them) by the deacons" (Justin, 1 Apol 67,5)
  2. ↑ "But as far as the dying are concerned, the old and canonical law should also now be observed that one must not withhold the last and most necessary food for the journey from those who are dying; ... in general, however, the bishop should also be who is dying and asks to receive the Eucharist, to offer it with due trial. " (Council of Nicaea, can. 13)
  3. ↑ The celebration of the sacraments of the sick. The anointing of the sick and the order of pastoral care for the sick in the Catholic dioceses of the German-speaking area. Ed. On behalf of the Bishops' Conferences of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Solothurn et al. (2) 1995. ISBN 3-451-17004-3 , p. 35
  4. ↑ to: The celebration of the sacraments of the sick. Ed. On behalf of the Bishops' Conferences of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Solothurn a. a. (2) 1995 p. 36

See also

literature

  • The celebration of the sacraments of the sick. The anointing of the sick and the order of pastoral care for the sick in the Catholic dioceses of the German-speaking area. Ed. On behalf of the Bishops' Conferences of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Solothurn et al. (2) 1995. ISBN 3-451-17004-3
  • Giving communion and worshiping the Eucharist outside of mass. Study edition. Published by the Liturgical Institutes Salzburg, Trier, Zurich 1976. Manuscript print (out of print). Manufactured in the Herder Offizin Freiburg im Breisgau 1976. Benziger: ISBN 3-545-50633-9 ; Herder: ISBN 3-451-21793-7 . Online edition Trier 2003. liturgie.de
  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): The celebration of the sick communion. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-32220-4 , 168 pp.