Good Friday Communion

[GoGoDiego]

A rubric states what to do after the communion on Good Friday,

**29. When the distribution of Communion has been completed, the ciborium is taken by the Deacon or another suitable minister to a place prepared outside the church or, if circumstances so require, it is placed in the tabernacle. **

Can you please explain by “a place prepared outside the church?” Typically, what does it look like?

 

[paperwight66]

The wording is confusing, isn’t it. It doesn’t mean literally outside the church in the open air. It means not in the church. So in the sacristy safe , for instance.

 

[pianistclare]

A rubric states what to do after the communion on Good Friday,

**29. When the distribution of Communion has been completed, the ciborium is taken by the Deacon or another suitable minister to a place prepared outside the church or, if circumstances so require, it is placed in the tabernacle. **

Can you please explain by “a place prepared outside the church?” Typically, what does it look like?

Meaning reposed in another place within the church. Like the chapel or a room set up to replicate a garden. It recalls when Jesus went to the Garden to pray the night before He died. We are to “keep watch with Him” as the Apostles did (we supposed to do but they fell asleep). The Host is exposed on an Altar for Veneration, or, the many hosts are kept in a smaller tabernacle and the faithful stay and pray through the night. At our rural parish, we stop at Midnight. You may recall that at the conclusion of Holy Thursday Mass there is a solemn procession to the place of Repose, with the singing of the Pange Lingua ( in Latin and perhaps in English too, to need enough lyrics to get the congregation over there, with servers and choir leading with the Processional Cross and incense. At that point, the central tabernacle doors remain open, so that the congregation can see that Jesus is no longer there. (Indicating His death on Good Friday).
I urge you to attend the services for the Triduum. They are beautiful and full of history, tradition, and express the fullness of Christ’s love fro us in a profound way. In ways that we can feel in our hearts and minds through beautiful liturgy.

God bless you, and may your have a beautiful week.

 

[Phemie]

Meaning reposed in another place within the church. Like the chapel or a room set up to replicate a garden. It recalls when Jesus went to the Garden to pray the night before He died. We are to “keep watch with Him” as the Apostles did (we supposed to do but they fell asleep). The Host is exposed on an Altar for Veneration, or, the many hosts are kept in a smaller tabernacle and the faithful stay and pray through the night. At our rural parish, we stop at Midnight. You may recall that at the conclusion of Holy Thursday Mass there is a solemn procession to the place of Repose, with the singing of the Pange Lingua ( in Latin and perhaps in English too, to need enough lyrics to get the congregation over there, with servers and choir leading with the Processional Cross and incense. At that point, the central tabernacle doors remain open, so that the congregation can see that Jesus is no longer there. (Indicating His death on Good Friday).
I urge you to attend the services for the Triduum. They are beautiful and full of history, tradition, and express the fullness of Christ’s love fro us in a profound way. In ways that we can feel in our hearts and minds through beautiful liturgy.

God bless you, and may your have a beautiful week.

There is no exposition during the Triduum.

 

[pianistclare]

There is no exposition during the Triduum.

Well, tell that to my former pastor. He always had the Monstrance out, processed with it, and we stayed in prayer.
If it’s not the morn or correct, I stand corrected. Thank you.
But we are called to stay and keep watch. Whether or not the hosts are visible. We have 100’s of people who stay in the Chapel until Midnight praying.

 

[Phemie]

Well, tell that to my former pastor. He always had the Monstrance out, processed with it, and we stayed in prayer.
If it’s not the morn or correct, I stand corrected. Thank you.
But we are called to stay and keep watch. Whether or not the hosts are visible. We have 100’s of people who stay in the Chapel until Midnight praying.

Oh, yes, there is definitely a period of adoration but, per the 1988 Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts, on Holy Thursday after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
55. The Blessed Sacrament should be reserved in a closed tabernacle or pyx. Under no circumstances may it be exposed in a monstrance.
The place where the tabernacle or pyx is situated must not be made to resemble a tomb, and the expression “tomb” is to be avoided: for the chapel of repose is not prepared so as to represent the “Lord’s burial” but for the custody of the Eucharistic Bread that will be distributed in Communion on Good Friday.

 

[UpUpAndAway]

There is no exposition during the Triduum.

My understanding of the Paschal Triduum is that it begins with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday and ends with Vespers/Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. That being the case, the Exposition (in a monstrance) we have in the parish from the end of the Mass on Holy Thursday until midnight should not be going on. In that event, thanks for the reference indicating as much. I’d totally believe you even without it, but my pastor needs more if I’m going to make an issue of this.

EDIT: Any idea where I can find an online copy of the Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts in French?

SECOND EDIT: Never mind, I found it here

Once Holy Thursday Adoration ends and the Blessed Sacrament is reposed at midnight, there is indeed no Exposition again until after Easter. We hold an all-night prayer vigil from the end of the Passion liturgy on Good Friday until 7:00am the following morning, but there is no Exposition for its duration.

 

[janeway529]

A rubric states what to do after the communion on Good Friday,

**29. When the distribution of Communion has been completed, the ciborium is taken by the Deacon or another suitable minister to a place prepared outside the church or, if circumstances so require, it is placed in the tabernacle. **

Can you please explain by “a place prepared outside the church?” Typically, what does it look like?

Typically, somewhere in the sacristy where it can be kept safe.

 

[on_the_hill]

IIRC, thinking way back to when I was an altar boy, there was a simple locking tabernacle in the sacristy. I think that’s where they kept extra hosts.