Hospital Visitation

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are scheduled in rotation to bring the Blessed Sacrament to patients at Slidell Memorial Hospital.  

Consecrated Hosts are carried in a pyx (small containers kept in the Church sacristy).  
Lay volunteers pick up the Catholic patient census from the phone operators at Slidell Memorial Hospital and then take the Holy Eucharist to the patients in their rooms.  
If a patient is unable to receive, the lay volunteer imparts a blessing.  Upon finishing, the volunteer returns the leftover Hosts and pyx to the Church.  

The lay volunteers may also notify the church office if there is a patient in need of the Anointing of the Sick, or if a patient would like to see a priest for confession.

In order to protect the patients' privacy, volunteers are asked to:

      Wear an identification badge which is provided by the hospital.
      Sign a confidentiality agreement.
      Leave the list of Catholic patients with the hospital staff before you leave the hospital.

Please contact the church office at 643-6124 if you are interested in participating in this ministry.