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L I T U R G Y
Purification of Vessels
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Prot. 1382/01/L
The United States of America
In response to the request of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joseph
Fiorenza, Bishop of Galveston-Houston, President of the Conference of
Bishops of the United States of America, made in a letter dated June 21,
2001, and in virtue of the faculties granted to this Congregation by
the Supreme Pontiff, JOHN PAUL II, we grant that in the dioceses of this
same Conference, for grave pastoral reasons, the faculty may be given by
the diocesan Bishop to the priest celebrant to use the assistance, when
necessary, even of extraordinary ministers in the cleansing of sacred
vessels after the distribution of Communion has been completed in the
celebration of Mass. This faculty is conceded for a period of three
years as a dispensation from the norm of the Institutio Generalis, edito
typica tertia of the Roman Missal.
All things to the contrary notwithstanding.
From the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
March 22, 2002.
+ Jorge A. Cardinal Medina Estevez
Prefect
+ Francisco Pio Tamburrino
Archbishop-Secretary
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