Fractioned Host for adoration?

[Alma]

Excuse my English, I don’t know the correct terms.

There is a chapel, near my house, where the Most Holy Sacrament is exhibited for perpetual adoration, but the Host seems to be fractioned in two parts.
There is a vertical line that divides it from top to bottom.
I don’t know whether it is a masking tape covering a possible fracture of the glass of the monstrance, or if the Host is broken in two parts. If this were the case, is it acceptable? Shouldn’ the Host be complete?

Alma

 

[paperwight66]

Unless you mean that the two halves are clearly separate i.e. the background can be seen between them, it’s far more likely that the Host is how it is supplied from the manufacturers, which is with grooves baked into it so that it is easier to break cleanly during Mass. Our parish uses altar breads for the priests which have a sort of peace symbol marked in them to make them easier to break, and I’d imagine this is common as it’s a good idea.

 

[paduard]

Excuse my English, I don’t know the correct terms.

There is a chapel, near my house, where the Most Holy Sacrament is exhibited for perpetual adoration, but the Host seems to be fractioned in two parts.
There is a vertical line that divides it from top to bottom.
I don’t know whether it is a masking tape covering a possible fracture of the glass of the monstrance, or if the Host is broken in two parts. If this were the case, is it acceptable? Shouldn’ the Host be complete?

Alma

A broken Host is quite acceptable.
paduard

 

[PaulfromIowa]

I have never seen this at Adoration, but a fractioned host is still the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ.

 

[JDHallKY]

I think paperwight66 is on the right track here. Most large hosts are manufactured with grooves or perforations in them, to make breaking them into equal parts during Mass easier for the priest. It’s possible to buy big hosts for adoration that don’t have that, but there isn’t any requirement that parishes do so. As long as it’s a consecrated host in the monstrance, I wouldn’t worry about it.

 

[Rosebud77]

on the shores of Lough Derg in Donegal there is a chapel and a large broken host there…

Symbolising the broken body of Christ .

 

[Alma]

Thank you for your answers, they have been helpful.

Between both halves there is a vertical division about one inch wide and beige, not white as the Host, so I guess it is not a groove.

But as you said, if it is a consecrated Host, it doesn’t matter that it is broken, Jesus is there all the same.

God bless!

Alma

 

[Rosebud77]

Thank you for your answers, they have been helpful.

Between both halves there is a vertical division about one inch wide and beige, not white as the Host, so I guess it is not a groove.

But as you said, if it is a consecrated Host, it doesn’t matter that it is broken, Jesus is there all the same.

God bless!

Alma

as at Lough Derg, the Broken Body of Christ.

 

[zab]

There has been a time or two when our priest did not consecrate a large Host for Exposition so he used three or four small Hosts to fill up the glass circle in the luna. Only one small Host would be what is needed. But I guess that for appearance as well as wanting the people in the back to view the Host better is the reason he used more than one small Hosts.