The Catholic Handbook for Visiting the Sick and Homebound 2009 is the essential resource for lay Ministers of Care, especially Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. This portable, annual resource contains all of the official rites a lay minister will need from the Book of Blessings and Pastoral Care of the Sick to bring the Eucharist to and pray with those who cannot regularly worship with their parish community: children, adults, the suffering, the dying, and those who mourn.

Handbook features:
Communion in Ordinary Circumstances
Communion in a Hospital or Institution
Simple, pastoral introduction to help navigate the rites by Sister Genevieve Glen, OSB
Gospels for Sunday and holy days of obligation (Year B)
List of patron saints for those who are sick and suffering
Orders for the Blessing of the Sick
Order for the Blessing of a Person Suffering from Addiction or from Substance Abuse
Order for the Blessing of Parents after a Miscarriage
Visits to the Sick and to a Sick Child
Celebration of Viaticum outside Mass
Pastoral Care of the Dying
Explanations of the Reading