Church-Passports

Rev dear Rev: Did church passports ever exist?

Dear Cc:

Herewith a responsory about the idea of church passports for future times in which all official air travel might be banned - Cop26.

An example today might look like this:

PCP

PARISH CHURCH PASSPORT

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(LITTERAE OLIM COMMUNIONIS)

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PARISH OF

ST FRANCIS & ST MARY

NORTHAMPTON

GB

TO WHOMSOEVER IT MIGHT CONCERN

THIS IS A TESTIMONIAL LETTER OF KOINONIA, A LITTERAE COMMUNIONIS, HEREBY DECLARING THAT THE FOLLOWING PERSON, HEREWITH NAMED AND HEREUNDER INDICATED,

NAMELY X.,

LIVING AT THE PARISH DOMICILE OF Y.,

IN THE DIOCESE OF Z.,

IS A BONA FIDE CHRISTIAN, AND A MEMBER OF THE ABOVE NAMED PARISH IN THE ABOVE NAMED DIOCESE, AND THEREIN RECEIVES COMMUNION, PARTICIPATES IN PARISH LIFE, EXERCISES MINISTRIES, AND LIVES PROFITABLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES TERRITORIAL AND PERSONAL OF THE SAID CHRISTIAN PARISH ACCORDING TO THE LAWS AND SOLEMNITIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS IN LINE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE CCC AND THE LAWS OF THE CIC AS DEFINED FOR REASONS OF COMMUNION AT CANON 96, THAT IS TO SAY THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE GOVERNANCE OF THE CHURCH, RECEIVE THE SACRAMENTS, AND HEARKEN UNTO THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL OF THE CHRIST MESSIAH, FOUNDER OF CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY.

WE SO TESTIFY, SO HELP US GOD, WITH THE APOSTLES, AND THE SAINTS OF THE BRITISH CHURCH, AND WE ASK YOU AS A RECEPTOR CHURCH TO ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE AND ABSORB THE SAID CHRISTIAN MAN/WOMAN/CHILD INTO YOUR COMMUNITY WITH OUR CONTINUED BLESSING WHILE THEY ARE PRESENT TO YOU.

PP

REV PARISH PRIEST, RECTOR IN SOLIDUM AND IN COMMENDAM.

PARISH OF STS FRANCIS & MARY, MILTON KEYNES, NORTHAMPTON DIOCESE, GB.