Beautiful pics - Ordinations of the Institut du Bon Pasteur

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I don’t know if I copy and pasted this right but I am trying to post a picture from the seminary site of a priest who looks like he is rubbing lemon juice on his hand. What on earth is he doing?

seminairesaintvincent.fr/home.php?area=photos&evt=75&lang=en

added- that just links to all of the pictures but there are two pictures of something to do with lemon and some white stuff and it looks to be in the context of the liturgy.
 
ringil said:
I don’t know if I copy and pasted this right but I am trying to post a picture from the seminary site of a priest who looks like he is rubbing lemon juice on his hand. What on earth is he doing?

seminairesaintvincent.fr/home.php?area=photos&evt=75&lang=en

added- that just links to all of the pictures but there are two pictures of something to do with lemon and some white stuff and it looks to be in the context of the liturgy.
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Lemon juice is frequently used to remove chrism from a priest’s hands. Its acidic composition removes what soap does not. In my parish this is common.
 
Chatter163 said:
Lemon juice is frequently used to remove chrism from a priest’s hands. Its acidic composition removes what soap does not. In my parish this is common.
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Makes sense! Is this an EF practice?

What are the white things on the plate?
 
ringil said:
Makes sense! Is this an EF practice?

What are the white things on the plate?
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Not just EF. Lemon slices and bread crusts are always put out at our OF parish for the Confirmation celebrant to cleanse his hands after conferral of the Sacrament. As stated by the other poster, the lemon cuts the oily Chrism residue on his fingers.
 
No, it is a Catholic practice. Lemon, bread and cotton are all commonly used.
 
ringil said:
Makes sense! Is this an EF practice?

What are the white things on the plate?
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It is very traditional to use lemon and bread for the bishop’s/priest’s fingers in either Form.
 
YoungTradCath said:
It is very traditional to use lemon and bread for the bishop’s/priest’s fingers in either Form.
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This is interesting as lemon would have been largely unheard of Northern Europe during the Migration and middle ages and HIGHLY expensive in the Renaissance.

I wonder what they would have used.
 
ringil said:
This is interesting as lemon would have been largely unheard of Northern Europe during the Migration and middle ages and HIGHLY expensive in the Renaissance.

I wonder what they would have used.
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Bergamot?
 
I find it interesting that the priests and deacons were ordained in the same Mass.
 
JGMendes4049 said:
I find it interesting that the priests and deacons were ordained in the same Mass.
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That is traditionally what the rites envisioned. One order (major and minor) is traditionally ordained after each of the multiple Ember Day readings.
 
great photos!

I’m trying to find out more about the IBP. I know they have a seminary outside of Paris and I remember seeing a video two years ago that they were doing their theology studies in Rome. I’ve heard conflicting news though now. Some said they pulled their theologians out of Rome, is this true? I can’t seem to find any information about this.

I’m from the US - would they take vocations from the USA? I don’t really have a lot of money so I don’t know if I could just fly out there for a week to see them. Would I need to study French first?

Does anyone else have info/experience as a seminarian or inquirer of joining IBP?
 
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