Are there any rubrics about cleansing of hands?

[stbruno]

Are there any formal rubrics about the proper cleansing of one’s hands after the administration of the Holy Eucharist if you are an extraordinary minister of the Eucharist or a minister of care?? Including the purification of a pyx after bringing the Body of Christ to the homebound??

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

I know of no such formal rubrics—other than common sense. There used to be a little container of water near the tabernacle that the priest would dip his fingers in after touching the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass. I notice that the friars at EWTN have one. I expect that they will eventually come back into use in most places.

For now you can rinse your hands as well as the pyx in the sacrarium in the sacristy.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.