A question about the tabernacle

[belgianwaffles9]

well…i have a question…

my city has a co-cathedral that they just built but the tabernacle isn’t in the middle or in a side chapel it just on the side…

if the priest was at the altar he would only take maybe 5-10 steps…you just have to step of the elevated are and there it is on the left…

Is This Right?

Is this the new co-cathedral in houston?

I dont know of any other co-cathedrals just built, so i looked at the diagram. Technically, it is up a few steps and they say it is a “chapel,” so that seems right…

diogh.org/cocathedral/dedication/tour-reservationchapel.htm

However, the fact that there seems to be seeting for the laypeople who are attending mass right in front of it seems wrong… they would pass it entering, leaving, and receiving communion, and i wonder how many people would take time to show the proper reverence. Plus, when the mass is being said, and youre sitting right next to the tabernacle, it seems to me as if you’d almost be pulled between two great things, and not know which one to be thinking of. That is why the tabernacle should be on or near the altar, so it becomes a “part” of the mass, or in a seperate chapel (if it absolutely has to be…)

Unless that seating is used only for clergy in choir or something of that sort, i think it is ill-advised to have it right there by the tabernacle.

diogh.org/cocathedral/dedication/tour-sanctuary-plan.htm

 

[sancte_joseph]

ha…i guess everyone knows ofthe new co-cathedral well yea its in houston…and

no those seats are NOT for the clergy and such…its for the lay people…so if you want to sit there just sit there…

and you confirmed my “concerns”

It’s not really a seperate “chapel” although they want it to be but it really CAN’T because its so close that it does put you in between 2 things like you said

I would hope that they put it behind the altar like in a church but seats for the bishops and cardinal is there
but i don’t think they’ll change it since its NEW!

 

[bpbasilphx]

Many side altars where low Masses were celebrated NEVER had tabernacles, even before Vatican II.

 

[bpbasilphx]

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Originally Posted by jonkknox View Post
Hmm, okay. Well, I suppose the saying “When in doubt, genuflect” will hold here?

Thanks, AJV!
I would have expressed it as “Always genuflect when passing the center” but yours sounds catchier**

Only if passing before the Reserved Sacrament (except on Holy Friday, when one genuflects towards the Crucifix).

 

[AJV]

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Originally Posted by jonkknox View Post
Hmm, okay. Well, I suppose the saying “When in doubt, genuflect” will hold here?

Thanks, AJV!
I would have expressed it as “Always genuflect when passing the center” but yours sounds catchier**

Only if passing before the Reserved Sacrament (except on Holy Friday, when one genuflects towards the Crucifix).

That is correct with respect to the NO, but in the TLM only the celebrant of the Mass (as well as prelates, and canons, if any are attending in choro) may bow. Those of lesser rank must genuflect to the cross in all liturgical functions.

 

[AJV]

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Originally Posted by jonkknox View Post
Hmm, okay. Well, I suppose the saying “When in doubt, genuflect” will hold here?

Thanks, AJV!
I would have expressed it as “Always genuflect when passing the center” but yours sounds catchier**

Only if passing before the Reserved Sacrament (except on Holy Friday, when one genuflects towards the Crucifix).

That is correct with respect to the NO, but in the TLM only the celebrant of the Mass (as well as prelates, and canons) may bow. Those of lesser rank must genuflect to the cross in all liturgical functions. This is stated absolutely in the Ritus Servandus, when it speaks of the incensing (“Diaconus et subdiaconus hinc inde assistunt celebranti cum incensat, et cum transeunt ante Crucem, semper genuflectunt”) and later, where it has the deacon and subdeacon genuflecting without any qualification, as in the case of a priest.

 

[muffinmojo]

The genuflecting is PART of the rite in the EF, not just something you do when passing the tabernacle.

They used to genuflect when celebrating Mass at the side altars in big churches, which had no tabernacle. Question answered = )