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DJHohl
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Is it ok to have a consecrated eucharistic host in a monstance at home for private devotion/prayer?
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Chatter163
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Negative.
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CathMass
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No. However you can pray before an image of the monstrance and the Eucharist to honor our Lord spiritually at home. I do this same thing with an empty monstrance that someone gave me. The Eucharist is never to be kept at a private home without permisssion from church authorities. For example, Audrey Santo, the girl said to be surrounded with miraculous occurences has the Eucharist at her home because she has permission to have both the Eucharist and Mass celebrated at her private chapel. This is also because the girl cannot really go to church due to her condition. So no Eucharist may be kept without permisssion.
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chicago
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Well, if you’re somebody who has connections with the bishop (and maybe money to give him) he might give you permission to have your own tabernacle with the Sacrament reserved. But that’s not most people.
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rosarywarrior
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Sorry Chicago but this sounds uncharitable.
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Rebecca_New
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Negative :tsktsk: Just go to Church and visit the Lord in the Tabernacle if you do not have perpetual adoration like we do at our Church. Maybe your are being called to ask about perpetual adoration at your Church.
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seremina
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You can have adoration of the Blessed Sacrament here… savior.org
It’s entirely online-based. Its perfect for those that don’t have a Church nearby or don’t have a Blessed Sacrament chapel.
It’s entirely online-based. Its perfect for those that don’t have a Church nearby or don’t have a Blessed Sacrament chapel.
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chicago
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How’s that? Traditionally, this is how one gets to have the Eucharist reserved in one’s home. The ways of the Church is as much politics and favoritism (even exchange of favors) as anything in the secular world. Prelates are only human, afterall. That’s not to say that the people who’ve been granted this privelege aren’t necessarily devout. There’s a well known old mansion in Lake County (north of Chicago), for example, which has it’s own beutifully decorared chapel. And when it’s original owners did all that, they had a tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament there, also. Of course, they were quite well off friends of Cardinal Mundelein who often spent Sunday dinners with them.
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Br.Rich_SFO
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NO it is absolutely forbidden.
An Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion even cannot keep the Blessed Sacrament for use the next day and must return to the tabernacle or consume any hosts that are unused during their rounds to the Hospital or home bound.
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kaygee
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For good reason, one may, with a special indult from the bishop. . . one has to have a properly arranged chapel and permanent tabernacle and the Mass must be celebrated there at least monthly. There are other requirements which make it almost impossible for anyone but a priest or hermit to obtain permission for that type of private chapel. This is not to make Jesus unavailable to the masses, but to protect The Blessed Sacrament from any who might out of carelessness or ignorance or actual malice might seek to do Him harm.
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chicago
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What does sometimes happen is for apostolates (which may or may not be specifically Catholic or Catholic oriented) to have permission extended to keep the Sacrament in their office’s private chapel.
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puzzleannie
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the key is that the Blessed Sacrament must be reserved in a Church, chapel or oratory, not just on somebody’s coffee table. The family in question, if your story is true, had that chapel. without it, the friendship of the Cardinal would not have been enough to give them this permission.
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chicago
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Yes, which is exactly what I meant. (Conversely, I suppose that the chapel wouldn’t have existed without permission for the Sacrament).
Though, let’s also realize that what suffices for a “chapel” can be kind of makeshift and doesn’t have to be much. I hate to say it is as simple as “toss a tabernacle in a room and put up a small, inexpensive altar”, but to a certain extent it can be in some places. I’ve seen sincerely established “private” chapels like this which are little more than just that.
And the mansion and family is for real. (Why would you doubt that it is? Or why - even how - would I make up such a thing?) It was even feautured on a series which was broadcast on A&E or Bravo or one of those hoi poloi channels that does series on that sort of thing.
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twiztedseraph
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I don’t get it? Isn’t it the same as praying infront of an Icon…? Doesn’t it just capture the image of the Species…? Could be wrong though.
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chicago
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Indeed, what would be theologically considered “proximity” is removed in such a case. And, yet, it still is a live (or timely delayed) image of the actual Sacrament and so there is something to that in which one could spiritually place oneself in the presence. So it’s basically an aid for us to “virtually” participate in adoration, I guess one might say, albeit not quite the same thing as being there actually.
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Melanie01
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In Australia I had lunch with an enormous family who does have permission to reserve the Eucharist in their home. The have a framed document attesting to the permission. The father built a chapel and they are fortunate to host a retired priest also living on the property who obliges with Mass and other Sacraments for the family.
It is a great priveledge and is possible but there are correct channels to follow, I do not know the exact requirements however.
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LilyM
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I know my parents also have a private chapel on their property and hold masses there once a month, whether the priest brings the Eucharist himself from his own church when he celebrates there or they reserve it I’m not sure, not ever having attended a Mass there.
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