History of Tabernacle

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I just finished a class on the Vatican II document Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concillium).

We were told that the Blessed Sacrament was kept in reserve at private homes to be given to those who could not make it to Mass. And it was only later that Eucharistic devotion evolved.

With this in mind, we were told that having the tabernacle on the centerline behind the altar conflicts with the Mass, and best be put to the side, or better yet, in a separate chapel beautifully decorated.

I am confused, because, it seems there is more meaning having tabernacle prominent, if not on the centerline.

Your thoughts

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I just finished a class on the Vatican II document Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concillium).

We were told that the Blessed Sacrament was kept in reserve at private homes to be given to those who could not make it to Mass. And it was only later that Eucharistic devotion evolved.

With this in mind, we were told that having the tabernacle on the centerline behind the altar conflicts with the Mass, and best be put to the side, or better yet, in a separate chapel beautifully decorated.

I am confused, because, it seems there is more meaning having tabernacle prominent, if not on the centerline.

Your thoughts

thanks
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I would have thought that a class on the Sacred Liturgy would have required the students to actually read Sacrosanctum Concillium?

The history is correct. Eucharistic Adoration didn’t begin until the 12th century, I not sure about the reservation of the Sacrament in churches. I would think that that would have begun much earlier.

The document does not come close to saying “having the tabernacle on the centerline behind the altar conflicts with the Mass, and best be put to the side, or better yet, in a separate chapel beautifully decorated.” It does say that the Tabernacle should be in a “prominant place.”
 
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The original Catholic Encyclopedia is also horribly dated in more than a few cases…
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In this case, has the history of the tabernacle been revised since the early 1900’s?
 
The earliest mention of a tabernacle i can think of right off is made by St Basil the Great (in On the Holy Spirit, i believe). He relates that whenever he would say the Divine Liturgy, the tabernacle would shake up and down on its own during the Epiclesis-this was a dove shaped tabernacle suspended from the ceiling (this is what one looks like: greekisgreek.net/StLukes/nat6.jpg ). This account would come from about the 370s (the article says little about the history prior to the Middle Ages, and is sketchy at best.).

In Christ,
Adam
 
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