Q: For Extraordinary Ministers of Communion taking Jesus to the sick, instead of a corporal, can a purificator be used instead to lay the pyx on a table?
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A: HCWEMOM 19 says that when communion is administered outside a church, a table is prepared, “covered with a cloth.”
It doesn’t say what color or kind. A corporal would be appropriate, but any cloth will do. That said, a purificator has a different function: wiping the rim of the chalice. It would not be consistent with the purpose of a purificator to use it as a cloth on the table. Any other cloth would serve better.
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