Christian History: The Council Of Trent in full: Session XXI (21)

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Summary

  • The Synod of Trent addressed errors regarding the Eucharist and clarified teachings on communion under both species and communion for infants.
  • Laymen and clerics not consecrating are not obligated to receive communion under both species, as one species suffices for salvation.
  • The Church holds the authority to change sacramental practices for the faithful’s benefit and maintains that Christ is fully present in either species.
  • Children are not required to partake in the Eucharist, and bishops must ensure proper administration and maintenance of church orders and benefices.

Session 21: ON COMMUNION FIRST DECREE Being the fifth under the Sovereign Pontiff, Pius IV., celebrated on the sixteenth day of July, MDLXII. The sacred and holy, ocecumenical and general Synod of Trent,–lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the same Legates of the Apostolic See presiding therein,-whereas, touching the tremendous and most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, there are in divers places, by the most wicked artifices of the devil, spread abroad certain monstrous errors, by reason of which, in…

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