"Ce document évoque notamment, en termes très mesurés, une hospitalité eucharistique possible pour des anglicans en manque eucharistique et perdus dans la nature française" (from this website).
It works more or less like this (I think):
Encyclica Ut Unum Sint, point 46, states that: "It is a source of joy to note that Catholic ministers are able, in certain particular cases, to administer the sacraments of the Eucharist, Penance and Anointing of the Sick to Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church but who greatly desire to receive these sacraments, freely request them and manifest the faith which the Catholic Church professes with regard to these sacraments".
The obvious "certain particular cases" are: danger of death, persecution, imprisonment etc.
But the 1983 Code of Canon Law states that episcopal conferences or diocesan bishops are able to identify additional situations of grave and pressing need (from this website)
And the French (RC) Episcopal Conference, stretching it a bit, gave official permission for Anglicans living in France to be able to avail themselves of any of the sacraments, should they be geographically far from an Anglican chaplaincy (from this website).
So if you're Anglican and you find yourself "perdu dans la nature", get in touch with the local papists!
Ummm, it looks like nobody gives a rat's about Eucharistic hospitality on the web! Fifteen minutes after publishing this post my very amateurish blog is already number five on Google for the search "hospitalite eucharistique". And this is actual formal terminology, not something I made up.
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