Prawo wiernych do Eucharystii Kościoła

Abstract

The faithful participate in the Eucharist of the Church when it is celebrated by the priest who is united with his bishop and who uses the liturgical books that are approved of (the Mass book, the lectionary). On the basis of the Church’s post-Council teaching on liturgy, and especially on the Eucharist, and mainly of the recent documents: John Paul II’s encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia and the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments Redemptionis Sacramentum, the author discussed this problem, stressing the fact that only the competent Church authorities have the right to define the rules of Eucharist celebration. Next he points to the fact that the faithful have the right to participate in Sunday and in everyday Holy Mass, to receive the Holy Communion in the way the Bishops Conference defines, and in cases defined by law to receive the Communion in two forms, and to participate in a well-prepared and beautifully celebrated mass liturgy.