Funkcje specjalnie powierzone proboszczowi

Abstract

The functions especially entrusted to a pastor, legislator enumerated in the can. 530 1983 Code of Canon Law. These are: the administration of baptism; the administration of the sacrament of confirmation to those who are in danger of death; the administration of Viaticum and of the anointing of the sick, and the imparting of the apostolic blessing; the assistance at marriages and the nuptial blessing; the performance of funeral rites; the blessing of the baptismal font at Easter time, the leading of processions outside the church, and solemn blessings outside the church; the more solemn Eucharistic celebration on Sundays and holy days of obligation. Analysis of the meaning “the functions especially entrusted to a pastor” made it possible to state, that these are the competences of the pastor as regards to the office of sanctifying in the Church, because the essence of competence is an authorization granted to a pastor to perform a conventional actions which are legally defined The Congregation for the Clergy explained, that these functions are not given exclusively to the parish priest, but are entrusted to him in a special way in virtue of his particular responsibility as parish priest, therefore they should consequently be discharged personally, in so far as possible, or at least overseen. The catalogue of enumerated activities is incomplete, because the Code included both the competences which they detail as well as those which concern the pastor, but were not included in the analyzed legal provision. As a result can. 530 is half-baked and its revision should be postulated.