Are we showing reverence for the Precious Blood?

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When purificators are placed in a laundry bag following mass to await cleaning, are we showing equal reverence to the Precious Blood as we do to the Eucharist?
 
I guess that would depend on how this laundry bag was treated. The purificators must be keppt somewhere…ours are placed in a bag in the cabinet where the stoles and clean linens are kept. There are instructions for washing, and they are to be rinced in water, and the water poured in an untraveled area of the ground before they are laundered in a machine or other common wash tub.

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I guess that would depend on how this laundry bag was treated. The purificators must be keppt somewhere…ours are placed in a bag in the cabinet where the stoles and clean linens are kept. There are instructions for washing, and they are to be rinced in water, and the water poured in an untraveled area of the ground before they are laundered in a machine or other common wash tub.

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A related question: I notice at our parish, that the Altar servers are in albs but not the E Ministers --who are in street clothes. This is a little jarring ( I should get a life) but to this old Episcopalian, it seems out of place. What is the rule about this?
 
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A related question: I notice at our parish, that the Altar servers are in albs but not the E Ministers --who are in street clothes. This is a little jarring ( I should get a life) but to this old Episcopalian, it seems out of place. What is the rule about this?
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EMHC are allowed to wear an alb, but not required to.
  1. In the dioceses of the United States of America, acolytes, altar servers, lectors, and other lay ministers may wear the alb or other suitable vesture or other appropriate and dignified clothing.
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It usally depends on how the priest and/or bishop view the EMHCs. Theologically the EMHCs are supposed to be members of the community that come out of the community to serve communion at the request of the priest. So it is appropriate they be dressed similar to the way the community is supposed to be dressed. Some churches have the EMHCs sit in the pews, others have them sit in the sanctuary. Usually those that have them sit in the pews have them dressed in dignified clothing. As for the ones that sit in the sanctuary, it varies. I know at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception the EMHCs (except for those that are seminarians or altar servers) are usually in suits, not in albs.

Another reason that some places do not have EMHCs in albs is to not confuse the role of the priest/deacon and that of the EMHC.
 
I would say that reverence for the Precious Blood is not shown when what happened at my parish last week happens. A bishop was in town and there were 5 other priests I think and apparently none wished to consume the remaining Precious Blood so the altar server, a young woman, was given the role! And there was enough to make her tipsy and she had lunch with some of these prelates who thought it was very funny. I did not.

When these things happen, I can better understand why adoration is so scarce in my diocese.

Lord, have mercy!
 
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