Requirement of priests to fast for services
A Priest may not conduct baptisms, Chrismation or give communion to the sick if he is not fasting.
Published Date
14 June 1997
Chapter
19. Rituals
Keywords
Rites & Rituals, Priests, Fasts, Baptism, Communion
Related Decrees
- Dialogue with the Church of Sweden
- Dialogue with the Catholics
- Formation of Committee for Review of Rite of Baptism
- No set ritual for installing general priest
- Priests recommended to pray litanies audibly
- Restrictions on when marriages may be performed
- Rules on Wednesday and Friday fasts
- The use of oils
- Timing of communion in the Nativity, Epiphany and Resurrection Liturgies
- Addition of "by air" to litany of travellers"