| Question Title | Posted By | Question Date |
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| Corporal Use | ED | Saturday, March 19, 2005 |
Question: My pastor does not use a Corporal ...just a whole white cloth over the entire altar. If he leaves the cruets on the altar is he consecrating the wine in the cruet as well as the wine in the chalice? |
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| Question Answered by Mr. Jacob Slavek
Dear Ed, I am assuming that the priest intends to consecrate the wine in the cruets and to distribute it to the people at that Mass. Yes, it is consecrated, but the priest REALLY needs to use a corporal, even if the altar cloth is also white. Mr. Slavek Footer Notes: (a) A Eucharistic Minister is clergy (Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion). Laity are Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and should never be called Eucharistic Ministers. (b) There is no such Mass called the Novus Ordo. The Current Mass is the Roman Missal of 2000, or the Oridinary Form of the Mass. The Tridentine Mass is the Roman Missal of 1962, or the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. Please refrain from using the term, Novus Ordo. Thanks. (c) The titles of Acolyte and Lector belong exclusively to the Installed Offices of Acolyte and Lector, who are men (only) appointed by the Bishop. These roles performed by others are Altar Servers and Readers, respectively. |
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