Notes to the Celebration of HC at Home or in Hospital

		Notes to the Celebration of Holy Communion at Home or in Hospital

		with the Sick and Housebound

1		Prayers of Penitence
		These may be omitted when the service has been preceded by a penitential rite.

2		Seasonal Material
		Seasonal or Sunday provision may be used in place of that provided here. At Christmas, Easter and Pentecost some at least of the seasonal provision for the Festival should be used.

3		Laying on of Hands and Anointing
		The form here may be used at the Prayers/Prayers of Intercession (Order One) or between the Absolution and Comfortable Words (Order Two).

4		Anointing
		Canon B 37 provides that the priest should use 'pure oil consecrated by the bishop of the diocese or otherwise by the priest himself' and that the anointing should be made on the forehead with the sign of the cross. In some circumstances it may also be appropriate to anoint on the hands.

5		Reception of the Consecrated Bread and Wine
		Communion should normally be received in both kinds separately, but where necessary may be received in one kind, whether of bread or, where the communicant cannot receive solid food, wine.

6		Spiritual Communion
		Believers who cannot physically receive the sacrament are to be assured that they are partakers by faith of the body and blood of Christ and of the benefits he conveys to us by them.

7		Residential Homes
		These forms may be used in residential homes where pastorally appropriate.