ADMISSION TO EUCHARIST BETWEEN CHALDEAN, ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF EAST

VATICAN CITY, OCT 25, 2001 (VIS) - Made public today were the "Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist Between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East," prepared by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

The document responds to the "great distress of many Chaldean and Assyrian faithful, in their motherland and in the diaspora, which impedes many of them (from leading) a normal sacramental life according to their own tradition, and in the ecumenical context of the bilateral dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East, the request has been made to provide for admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East."

"When necessity requires," the guidelines state, "Assyrian faithful are permitted to participate and to receive Holy Communion in a Chaldean celebration of the Holy Eucharist; in the same way, Chaldean faithful for whom it is physically and morally impossible to approach a Catholic minister, are permitted to participate and to receive Holy Communion in an Assyrian celebration of the Holy Eucharist."

"In both cases, Assyrian and Chaldean ministers celebrate the Holy Eucharist according to the liturgical prescriptions of their own tradition."

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