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| Consecration: | ED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
Question: Responding to your ans. priest intends to consecrate wine in cruets left on altar. The water and wine cruets are left on the altar and are not used. Later taken into sacristy. happens at morning mass with no altar servers. Sorry to be a pest. I'm gettin tired of all the nonsense going on. |
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| Question Answered by Mr. Jacob Slavek
Dear Ed, Not a pest. :-) If you are absolutely sure that this is what's actually going on then there is a serious problem and somebody needs to do something to stop it now. The priest should know better since before he entered the seminary. Hopefully the unused Precious Blood is immediately consumed once Mass is over, although this really shouldn't be happening in the first place. So the next step I'd take is try to find out what's happening to the cruets after Mass. Maybe ask Father why he is regularly consecrating them even though they are not used. If you become convinced that there is a serious abuse happening then I would contact your bishop or someone else in your diocese that handles these problems and ask for help. Let me know what happens, 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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