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I just had a question about the status of the restoration of infant communion in the Ukrainian Catholic Church:
What is the current status of infant communion in the Ukrainian Catholic Church? Is there a standard practice that has restored infant communion in Ukrainian Catholic parishes? Or, is this more of a parish by parish (or eparchy by eparchy) decision? If infant communion has been restored in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, when did this occur?
If I've formulated my question wrong, I apologize. I was in discussion with someone recently on this and this question came up. Thanks!
My daughter was baptized, chrismated, and received communion as an infant in a Ukrainian Catholic Parish, and all the infants/small children at the divine liturgy received
communion as well, but that's all I knowI believe the Instruction on the Implementation of the liturgical provisions of the CCEO mandates the restoration of Holy Communion for infants and small children.
Most of my people are straight from Ukraine; nobody has ever blinked at the administration of Holy Communion to infants and small children, nor is Bishop Hlib surprised by the practice.
Fr. Serge
BYZ CATHOLIC ORG
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In the Eparchy of St. Nicholas (which includes Arizona) I know of no parish that refuses infant Communion nor has in at least the last decade. Neither Fr. Hugo Soutus nor Fr. Andriy Chirovsky will refuse any infant Holy Communion.
Infant Communion is the normal practice in the UGCC, and all of the two or three commonly used books for Initiation mention the practice of communing the infant. The local Eparch, the Synod, and even Rome through the Instruction has mandated this practice
BYZ CATHOLIC ORG
- April 23, 2012 BYZANTINE CATHOLIC
CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS
At his public audience on Sunday, April 22, Pope Benedict XVI recognized the presence of hundreds of Italian children preparing for their First Communion celebrations, and encouraged them-as well as their pastors and their families-to "prepare this feast of the faith well, with great fervor but also with sobriety."
In Italy it is customary for children to receive their First Communion shortly after Easter, and the crowd in St. Peter's Square was dotted with the young people and their parents. Catholic World News
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Compiledby Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes
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