The hospital is a liturgical ceremony within the Catholic Church, bringing the communion (the pre-consolidated hostage) to those who can no longer come to church to communicate.
The liturgy reminds the H. Mis, but in a very shortened form. Of course, the consecration is lacking. However, there is room for the guilt, a reading, consideration, forgiveness, Our Father and prayer after the communion. The priest can provide the sick community, but also the deacons or in emergency situations a special minister of communion such as an acolite. In prosecutions or wars it is permissible that, like the acolite, the H. Communion seemed to bring to the sick, but beyond these situations it has been strictly forbidden. Already Pope Eutychian (275-283) forbade in his Exhortatio Sacerdotibus to be sent to all the Saints by the H. Communion to the sick by a layman or even a woman. This was solely the task of the deacons and priests.
The sick community is already in the Early Church. During a prosecution, H. Tarcisius died even in the circulation of the sick community.
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