Does your priest veil the chalice?

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I am curious: how many people on these boards attend a church where the priest actually veils the chalice? My priest seems to think this practice is old fashioned. Whenever I ask him why he doesn’t do things such as veil the chalice or use a paten (in his other parish) he invariably tells me “That’s old fashioned”, or “No one does that anymore”…

Just curious how many non-FSSP priests believe in veiling the sacred vessels, or if this just a problem in my diocese…

Stephen
 
slewi said:
I am curious: how many people on these boards attend a church where the priest actually veils the chalice? My priest seems to think this practice is old fashioned. Whenever I ask him why he doesn’t do things such as veil the chalice or use a paten (in his other parish) he invariably tells me “That’s old fashioned”, or “No one does that anymore”…

Just curious how many non-FSSP priests believe in veiling the sacred vessels, or if this just a problem in my diocese…

Stephen
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Our priest uses a veil for the chalice. He replaces it VERY slowly and reverently after Communion - extending the period of post-Communion prayer just a bit longer, which I really appreciate.

Do you mean your priest doesn’t use a paten on the altar!?! Where does he place the consecrated host when he consecrates the chalice? :eek:

OTOH, if you mean patens for Communion distribution, we don’t have them anywhere around here that I have seen.
 
Corki said:
OTOH, if you mean patens for Communion distribution, we don’t have them anywhere around here that I have seen.
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what happens when someone recieves on the tongue and it slips…does it fall on the ground then???
 
No veil in Bergen County parish.

Definitely at St. Thomas More (daily Mass) in New York.
 
Karin said:
what happens when someone recieves on the tongue and it slips…does it fall on the ground then???
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Off topic but yes, the Eucharist falls to the ground. 😦 Actually, I have only witnessed this (twice) with people receiving in the hand. My son was one of them. He was jostled out of the way by the person behind him in line :mad: while trying to put the Host into his mouth and he dropped the Host. From that moment on, he has received on the tongue. Father is very careful that the Eucharist is securely placed.
 
I attend two different parishes. In one, the veil is always used; in the other it is never used, regardless of which priest is present. I presume that this depends on the pastor, and that all the other priests conform.
 
Naturally. I would only go to a parish that didn’t once: enough to find out and go somewhere else.
 
Corki said:
Do you mean your priest doesn’t use a paten on the altar!?! Where does he place the consecrated host when he consecrates the chalice? :eek:
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He places the host in a ciborium. They have these ciboria which are short and flat and look lile a coffee mug, with the little thingy for your finger like a mug has…they stack and everything…pretty cool:rolleyes:.

However at my parish, he uses a paten. Thank. God.
 
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Naturally. I would only go to a parish that didn’t once: enough to find out and go somewhere else.
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We don’t have that luxury in the diocese of scranton. I have been to only two places that do: The FSSP priests, and The Oblates of Saint Joseph priest, but they have since moved him.
 
In the nice, more traditional church I have just discovered in my area, the priest veils the chalice. In the liberal church I was attending, I never saw a priest veil the chalice.
 
My pastor veils the chalice for all Masses, but 10-15 years ago during his first stint as my pastor (of the school parish, I’ve since moved to a different part of the diocese and reconnected with him) he did not. I think he started once he began regularly offering the TLM and I’m guessing it was more because the parishes didn’t have veils than that he didn’t like the practice back then.
 
I went home for the weekend and my pastor, who does not veil the chalice, uses real ciboria instead of “host dishes,” one of which is the “San Remy” style covered with real rubies. Very beautiful. On the way home, I stopped in another parish and found to my delight that not only does the priest veil the chalice (which the GIRM strongly recommends), but their little shoebox tabernacle has been replaced with a magnificent gold-and-enameled one that holds pride of place in the center of the sanctuary. As for me, if I am ordained someday (God willing!), I fully intend to use the veil and the burse.
 
By veil of the chalice doyou mean the piece of cloth that covers the chalice and is the same color as the proper liturgical color as the vestments. If so yeas at home parish and no when attend dailly mass in DC. My parish reintroduced paten use by the alterboys about a year and a half ago.
 
I parish hop a bit - two of the Churches that I attend do use the veil. It’s a lovely custom to be sure.
 
I just got home from 5:30 Mass at our Cathedral. Our priest today did indeed veil the chalice. The rector and the other associate do not. Curiously, this priest does not use the veil on Sundays.

Betsy
 
slewi said:
We don’t have that luxury in the diocese of scranton. I have been to only two places that do: The FSSP priests, and The Oblates of Saint Joseph priest, but they have since moved him.
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I am very sorry! But, I think with this influx of new seminarians that embrace the beautiful traditions of the magisterium and our loving Holy Father shepherding them so enthusiastically, you may see a return yet!
I always took the things our diocese did for granted. I assumed every Catholic church did things the way they were done done here. I am a convert and never went to a parish outside our diocese until I married. It is just really sad that traditions get lost. Veiling may be considered a little thing to miss, but what a beautiful ‘little thing’. I would feel bad for my children if we didn’t have the option of going to a parish where the priest didn’t do these things, lovingly caring for the corpus of our Savior.
I would feel very alone if there weren’t people like you guys on the forums to talk about these things!🙂
 
slewi said:
I am curious: how many people on these boards attend a church where the priest actually veils the chalice? My priest seems to think this practice is old fashioned. Whenever I ask him why he doesn’t do things such as veil the chalice or use a paten (in his other parish) he invariably tells me “That’s old fashioned”, or “No one does that anymore”…

Just curious how many non-FSSP priests believe in veiling the sacred vessels, or if this just a problem in my diocese…

Stephen
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No our church does not veil the chalice. The GIRM states “Should” not “Must”. I guess a way out.
 
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