Cleansing of the Vessels

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In my parish the EMC cleans the vessels at daily Mass. After Mass the chalice is taken into the sacrisity and then rinsed in the bathroom sink.

We have two sacristies in our church. The main sacristy in the rear of the church contains a sacrarium; the sacristry off the daily chapel doesn’t.

I spoke to my pastor about this practice. He said that it would be scrupulus to rinse the chalice in the sacrarium after it had been purified at the altar. So, therefore cleaning it in the bathroom sink is just fine.

Well, even so I think it’s rather ugh!! to rinse a drinking vessel in a bathroom sink!!

What do you folks think?

Micki
 
In my church we do not have a sacrarium (water level in the area is really high) so when we purify the vessels any water poured into the vessels is consumed by the EMHC. The thought of doing this in the bathroom sink next to the toilet is just tacky, tacky, tacky.
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oh dear, I brush my teeth at the bathrrom sink every day.

I then take water from the bathroom faucet at the bathroom sink and rinse my mouth out.

So I am not sure I understand the objection to using water from the bathroom sink???
 
The objection is not about the water, it is about the appropriateness of the room being used for the purification. The bathroom has a different function than the sacristry. The parish of my youth had a seating capacity of 2,000, so it was a really large church. Yet it was not so large that one could walk from to back in the matter of a minute or less depending upon how fast one walked. I just don’t get the objection to walking to the sacristry to purify the vessels.
 
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Micki:
In my parish the EMC cleans the vessels at daily Mass. After Mass the chalice is taken into the sacrisity and then rinsed in the bathroom sink.

We have two sacristies in our church. The main sacristy in the rear of the church contains a sacrarium; the sacristry off the daily chapel doesn’t.

I spoke to my pastor about this practice. He said that it would be scrupulus to rinse the chalice in the sacrarium after it had been purified at the altar. So, therefore cleaning it in the bathroom sink is just fine.

Well, even so I think it’s rather ugh!! to rinse a drinking vessel in a bathroom sink!!

What do you folks think?

Micki
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If the chalice has been properly purified at the altar, there should be absolutely no trace of Precious Blood inside of it. None. Therefore, it should make no difference where the water ends-up.
 
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If the chalice has been properly purified at the altar, there should be absolutely no trace of Precious Blood inside of it. None. Therefore, it should make no difference where the water ends-up.
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I can only pray that this is so. But, here’s a scary scenerio that happened last week.

Neither the priest nor the EMC purified the chalice at Mass. We had a visiting priest and maybe things just got a bit confused. ANYWAY, the gentleman removing items from the altar after Mass took the chalice to the sacrisity that does not contain a sacarium. I sat there praying for guidance because I didn’t know what to do and feared the worst. At that moment the visiting priest walked into the church. I spoke to him about what had happened and what may be occuring at the bathroom sink. He had no idea that there wasn’t a sacraium in the back sacristy. He thanked me than walked toward the sacrisity.

Now, this is what I mean by potential problems. If the set policy was to use the sacraium under ALL circumstances there wouldn’t be such a chance for a liturgical abuse.

Micki
 
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Crusader:
If the chalice has been properly purified at the altar, there should be absolutely no trace of Precious Blood inside of it. None. Therefore, it should make no difference where the water ends-up.
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Not to mention: If the vessel has been properly purified at the altar, why is the “EMC” washing it again…? :confused:

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The chalice does not have to be rinsed out anywhere. The only water we have in our church is the water we bring in in a gallon jug (not counting the water in the Holy water fonts and tank). We have no plumbing in our church. If he wanted to clean it more, just pour in more water and wipe it out.
 
i have a question about this practice. we call it ‘purifying the vessels’ when we remove the body and blood from them after mass. but since the body and blood are God, aren’t they the purest thing in the world? how is it ‘purifying’ them to remove the source of all purity?

i realize it’s a semantic and pedantic question. but i still want an answer, if there is one. 🙂
 
It is about washing off all those germs which cause so many people to not receive the Precious Blood…
 
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