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re: Incense swings Edward Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Question:

In regard to incense swings, this is the way we were taught at our church. Of course our parish is AU but I believe its the same everywhere.
For the altar servers and congregation, it's one set of two swings. For the deacon, or non-concelebrating priest, its two sets of two swings. For the celebrating priest, its two sets of three swings, and for Our Lord during Sanctus, the Consecration and the "By whom, with whom and in whom" its three sets of three swings.

I hope this helps.

Question Answered by Mr. Jacob Slavek

Dear Edward,

Thank you for the help, but I would really need to be able to reference this with something official before I can tell my readers that this is the way it must be done.

What you've said seems to be more traditional usage and not in agreement with today's GIRM, but as I said before I believe the best source for incense is the Ceremonial of Bishops, and I could just kick myself for not making sure I have this book available.  :-)

Thanks always for the input,

Mr. Slavek
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