No communion for the laity on Good Friday in the Extraordinary Form?

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I just got back from the Maundy Thursday Mass in the Extraordinary Form at an ICKSP parish wherein during the homily the canon said that communion is not offered to the laity on Good Friday in keeping with centuries of tradition. I’ve been to a few Extraordinary Form Masses of the Presanctified though they’ve all been diocesan. In every one the faithful have received communion. Is this a peculiar practice of the ICKSP? Is this even allowed to bar the laity from receiving?

I don’t have a dog in this fight as I’m Orthodox and we don’t receive communion on Good Friday either. I was just surprised to hear that any Catholic church practices this today.
 
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I don’t have a dog in this fight as I’m Orthodox and we don’t receive communion on Good Friday either. I was just surprised to hear that any Catholic church practices this today.
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It was only last night that it occurred to me, with a smile, that Good Friday is the one day of the year that the RC uses a presanctified liturgy, while it’s the one Friday in lent where we don’t have one . . . (OK, except last year when it fell on Annunciation . . .)

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I just got back from Good Friday Mass at the Cathedral. We had Communion.
 
Yes thankyou. I was at Good Friday Celebration of the Lords Passion.
 
I was at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper with the ICRSS (ICKSP in English, ICRSP in the local vernacular) last night, and a reserve of consecrated hosts processed to the Altar of Repose after the Mass. According to the provided missalettes, these hosts will be distributed to the faithful attending tonight’s Office of the Pre-Sanctified. I will be at that liturgy as well and shall report back with what happens.

(Forgive me if I don’t get the exact terms correct - I’m translating from French 😊)

@Roseeurekacross, as the OP’s question specifically pertains to the Extraordinary Form I have to ask: was the liturgy at your cathedral in the EF?
 
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In the old Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday, I believe that the priest would have been the only one receiving the pre-consecrated host.
 
Could this have something to do with the pre-1955 holy Week rituals which some EF Parishes are now using?
 
The Vatican just recently gave approval to use the pre-1955 Holy Week rituals in the EF.
 
I thought that was only to the FSSP, and specific FSSP parishes at that.
 
There’s no Mass and no consecration of hosts on Good Friday.
The hosts are reserved at the altar of Repose after Holy Thursday Mass, and those are distributed on Good Friday at the Veneration of the Cross Liturgy.

Perhaps that is what he meant.
 
Okay, I’m back. No Communion for the laity. Even the deacon and subdeacon, who are both actually priests, did not receive. Only the celebrant did.

Confused, I looked at one of the missalettes from last night. Sure enough, it says that the consecrated host processed to the Altar of Repose. Not hosts, but a single host. It is this host that was consumed by the celebrant this evening.
 
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Same here. During the preliminary announcements prior to the Mass of the Presanctified tonight the celebrant mentioned that only two hosts were consecrated on Holy Thursday, one for then and one for Good Friday. Only the celebrant received. Afterward I overheard him saying to a parishioner outside that they received special permission from the Vatican to celebrate the Holy Week liturgies before Pius XII’s reforms. That explains why I got lost a bit at Tenebrae!

Does anyone know about these supposed indults? Were they extended to all Latin Mass communities including diocesan ones? Was this done on a case by case scenario?
 
Well, Good Friday is not a mass but a service. Catholics do not celebrate the sacrifice on Good Friday. The stripping of the altar on Holy Thursday indicates that there will be no mass, as Jesus would ‘descend to hell’. The mass will be celebrated again after Easter is proclaimed during the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.

So basically there would be no Holy Communion on Good Friday.

However, there could be Communion service, the hosts being used were consecrated earlier on.
 
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I don’t think you understand the thread. We’re discussing the old practice of communion being limited to only the priest. Zero lay people received holy communion as there was exactly one host available. Not even the deacon or subdeacon communed, only the celebrant priest. I’m also well aware that the modern Catholic Church no longer refers to the Good Friday liturgy as a Mass. The traditional 1955 liturgy, however, was and is referred to as “the Mass of the Presanctified”.
 
Ok then I don’t understand this thread. Being a forum in CAF, this is as far as I know, that Good Friday is a service, not a mass. Mass is not celebrated after Holy Thursday until Easter. It is for this reason that the altar was ‘stripped’ where all crucifixes are removed or covered.

There is no Holy Communion on Good Friday. If there is, why is that the congregation not given but the celebrant only?

So yes, you have to excuse me, I do not understand this thread.
 
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We had communion on Good Friday. The Bishop gave communion out.

“Communion on Good Friday is not a recent practice at all. It was part of the parish liturgy in Rome and in the Frankish lands in the 7th century. Certainly between the 13th century and 1955 when the Easter liturgy was reformed it was only the priest who received communion, but that was true of many Masses anyway. The Rite of Communion was still part of the liturgy.”

 
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And I ask again, was the liturgy at your cathedral celebrated in the Extraordinary Form?

I think most people here understand the practice in the Ordinary Form of distributing Communion to the laity on Good Friday using hosts that were consecrated on Holy Thursday and subsequently reserved - this is exactly what happened in my parish, and the vast majority of parishes worldwide, yesterday. However, this thread asks specifically about the EF. The OP first asked if not distributing Communion to the laity attending the EF is a peculiarity of the ICRSS, then wanted to know more about the relevant indults.

Since I was present for the ICRSS Office of the Pre-Sanctified, I can only confirm that the same thing he saw happened here as well. Why the Institute does this, and why it is not universal for all EF liturgy, are questions I can’t answer - the EF accounts for only 3% of all liturgy I attend so I’m not that familiar with it. Can anyone else help?
 
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