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Hi everyone,

I am not really a message board person but I can’t find an answer to my question and I hope someone can help me. I am a lifelong Catholic who has renewed my zeal for the Faith recently. I really want to make my home a more holy environment for my family. I bought a monstrance on Ebay and I would like to get a consecrated Holy Host to display on my mantle so that we can enjoy home adoration of the Most Blessed Holy Eucharist. I’m just wondering if this would be okay, and how I would go about obtaining a Holy Host.

Thanks in advance.

James
 
I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be allowed. If you have the Blessed Sacrament displayed, I was taught you have to have someone there in Adoration at all time so you could never leave that room empty. And there’s just so much room for accidental desecration of the Host. I don’t mean to sound harsh but it just seems inappropriate. Better to leave the Adoration for when at church. There are other ways to make your home more holy: make a Mary garden, instead of regular ornaments use religious ones (icons, crucifixes, etc.), find framed prints of Scripture to hang on your walls, be creative!
 
It’s not allowed, sorry. If you want to have the eucharist present at a certain location, you first must obtain permission from the local bishop. Then he will send a team of invesitgators to see if the place is worthy of having the eucharist present. Even if your place was given permission you canno’t leave the body exposed without someone being present, otherwise that would be a sin. Just bild your self a home altar and use it for prayer, and if you like just donate the monstrance to a local church.
 
As others have said, you cannot have adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at home. You can however, create a ‘prayer corner’ or have a home ‘altar’. This is simply a dedicated place where you have religious icons, statutes, or items on display and where you regularly pray. Another wonderful Catholic tradition is the have an image or statue of the Sacred Heart enthroned in your house. The image is blessed and your home is consecrated to the Sacred Heart. In my parish, this is coordinated through the Legion of Mary.

Definitely consider giving the monstrance to your church. You can also organize adoration at your church. Because Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament cannot be left alone, this is always a lay lead devotion. In our church is started with Adoration on Wednesdays after the noon daily Mass. Perhaps you can arrange a similar devotion at your parish.
 
Although your motives are worthy, worship of the Eucharist is closely connected with the Mass. It would be very unusual and inappropriate to have adoration in a location where Mass is never celebrated.

Also to obtain a ‘Holy Host’ to display on your mantle so you can enjoy adoration would mean you would need a tabernacle in your house in a consecrated area for when adoration isn’t taking place. And, since this would be considered a private chapel, it would have to be open at certain times to the public since the Blessed Sacrament can never be considered the possession of a single person or family. I think you would have more chance of getting your parish to offer adoration on a regular basis than ever being approved for having a private chapel.
 
Hi everyone,

I am not really a message board person but I can’t find an answer to my question and I hope someone can help me. I am a lifelong Catholic who has renewed my zeal for the Faith recently. I really want to make my home a more holy environment for my family. I bought a monstrance on Ebay and I would like to get a consecrated Holy Host to display on my mantle so that we can enjoy home adoration of the Most Blessed Holy Eucharist. I’m just wondering if this would be okay, and how I would go about obtaining a Holy Host.

Thanks in advance.

James
absolutely not, it is expressly forbidden. The blessed sacrament may only be reserved and exposed for adoration in a sacred place, a church, chapel or oratory, where Mass is regularly celebrated and which has been designated for that purpose by the bishop. Don’t even think it. Consider making a gift of your purchase to a poor parish here or in the missions that can use it. Call Catholic Extension to make that donation directly to a parish in need here in the US. The Blessed Sacrament is not a mantel decoration. Even in a designated chapel there may not be exposition for adoration unless there are adorers present at all hours. The Lord may not be left alone at any time.

In case the other posters have not made it clear, it would be a very grave sacrilege to attempt what you have in mind. But thank you for rescuing that blessed object from e-bay, in that you did perform a service.
 
I would like to offer you a suggestion: contact your parish and offer them the monstrance instead. Listen to the advices you have been given in this thread. 👍

God bless you.
 
Wow. Thank you very much for your suggestions, everyone. I appreciate your time. I have to say I am slightly taken aback because a neighbor of mine had many Holy Hosts in a ceramic container at her house. I know that she obtained the Blessed Hosts by taking communion at mass, and then just holding on to the Holy Host and bringing them home in her purse. She did not seem to think it was sacrilegious to bring the Hosts home and keep them as a blessing for her family and household. She said she occasionally used a Holy Host when one of her kids was sick, or she needed extra blessings. I didn’t know a ton about the issue, so I guess it did strike me as odd (sneaky) but I didn’t think too much of it at the time. Now I see that she was in error, although I don’t think she meant anyone malice.

I guess I figured displaying Him in a Holy Monstrance would be acceptable since I only wanted ONE and He would be in a really nice display. But, I will take your advice against it. Our parish is wealthy, I doubt they’d use the Monstrance. They already have a really gorgeous one and we only have adoration once a year or so. The one I bought is similar to this one: cgi.ebay.com/Nice-older-Monstrance-case-w-luna-/270331954363?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ef10a44bb#ht_5442wt_1112

Not exactly the same, but similar. Would I be in error keeping it or reselling it? It was kind of a lot of money and if I can’t use it to display a Most Blessed Host in my home I might want my money back.

Thanks
 
Wow. Thank you very much for your suggestions, everyone. I appreciate your time. I have to say I am slightly taken aback because a neighbor of mine had many Holy Hosts in a ceramic container at her house. I know that she obtained the Blessed Hosts by taking communion at mass, and then just holding on to the Holy Host and bringing them home in her purse. She did not seem to think it was sacrilegious to bring the Hosts home and keep them as a blessing for her family and household. She said she occasionally used a Holy Host when one of her kids was sick, or she needed extra blessings. I didn’t know a ton about the issue, so I guess it did strike me as odd (sneaky) but I didn’t think too much of it at the time. Now I see that she was in error, although I don’t think she meant anyone malice.
Well, she may not have meant it to be but it was indeed sacrilegious: the Eucharist which is given to us at Mass or Liturgy should be consumed right there, at the moment it is given. Sneaking it into your purse or pocket and taking it home with you is indeed forbidden - and yes, “sneaky” is a good word for it too! 😃
Not exactly the same, but similar. Would I be in error keeping it or reselling it?
It’s perfectly OK to keep or resell it. However, why don’t you ask your priest if he is aware of any mission parishes which need one? It might be very much appreciated elsewhere, and I’m sure whoever receives it would be more than happy to offer prayers for you during their own parish Adoration. 🙂
 
I was at a Catholic gift store and a friend of mine bought a monstrance. I tried to talk her out of it, because it didn’t seem right to me. I told her she could never have the Eucharist in it. SO…she bought a box of unconsecrated hosts and plans on putting one of those in it. I said, what is the use of that? It isn’t Jesus. But she spent about $200 on that Monstrance.:confused:
 
Maybe you could obtain some relics and use the monstrance as a kind of reliquary.
But I don’t know how you would go about getting a relic.
 
Third class relics are widely available on eBay; possibly even from the vendor you got the monstrance from in the first place.
 
Maybe you could obtain some relics and use the monstrance as a kind of reliquary.
But I don’t know how you would go about getting a relic.
That is actually a really great idea. The Monstrance is very pretty and I would like to have it on my mantle as a devotional piece, even if I can’t have a Holy Host in it.

It looks like something like THIS would fit well? What do you think?
 
Third class relics are widely available on eBay; possibly even from the vendor you got the monstrance from in the first place.
It is sacrilege and a grave sin to buy or sell relics under any circumstances.
 
It looks like something like THIS would fit well? What do you think?
I think in light of these sales of relics for profit, we should pray…

Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart

Most sweet Jesus, whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetfulness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before Thee, eager to repair by a special act of homage the cruel indifference and injuries to which Thy loving Heart is everywhere subject.

Mindful, alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask Thy pardon and declare our readiness to atone by voluntary expiation, not only for our own personal offenses, but also for the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate infidelity to follow Thee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the promises of their baptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of Thy law.

We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committed against Thee; we are now determined to make amends for the manifold offenses against Christian modesty in unbecoming dress and behavior, for all the foul seductions laid to ensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violations of Sundays and holydays, and the shocking blasphemies uttered against Thee and Thy Saints. We wish also to make amends for the insults to which Thy Vicar on earth and Thy priests are subjected, for the profanation, by conscious neglect or terrible acts of sacrilege, of the very Sacrament of Thy Divine Love; and lastly for the public crimes of nations who resist the rights and teaching authority of the Church which Thou hast founded.

Would that we were able to wash away such abominations with our blood. We now offer, in reparation for these violations of Thy divine honor, the satisfaction Thou once made to Thy Eternal Father on the Cross and which Thou continuest to renew daily on our Altars; we offer it in union with the acts of atonement of Thy Virgin Mother and all the Saints and of the pious faithful on earth; and we sincerely promise to make recompense, as far as we can with the help of Thy grace, for all neglect of Thy great love and for the sins we and others have committed in the past. Henceforth, we will live a life of unswerving faith, of purity of conduct, of perfect observance of the precepts of the Gospel and especially that of charity. We promise to the best of our power to prevent others from offending Thee and to bring as many as possible to follow Thee.

O loving Jesus, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mother, our model in reparation, deign to receive the voluntary offering we make of this act of expiation; and by the crowning gift of perseverance keep us faithful unto death in our duty and the allegiance we owe to Thee, so that we may all one day come to that happy home, where with the Father and the Holy Spirit Thou livest and reignest, God, forever and ever. Amen.
 
Wow. Thank you very much for your suggestions, everyone. I appreciate your time. I have to say I am slightly taken aback because a neighbor of mine had many Holy Hosts in a ceramic container at her house. I know that she obtained the Blessed Hosts by taking communion at mass, and then just holding on to the Holy Host and bringing them home in her purse. She did not seem to think it was sacrilegious to bring the Hosts home and keep them as a blessing for her family and household. She said she occasionally used a Holy Host when one of her kids was sick, or she needed extra blessings. I didn’t know a ton about the issue, so I guess it did strike me as odd (sneaky) but I didn’t think too much of it at the time. Now I see that she was in error, although I don’t think she meant anyone malice.

I guess I figured displaying Him in a Holy Monstrance would be acceptable since I only wanted ONE and He would be in a really nice display. But, I will take your advice against it. Our parish is wealthy, I doubt they’d use the Monstrance. They already have a really gorgeous one and we only have adoration once a year or so. The one I bought is similar to this one: cgi.ebay.com/Nice-older-Monstrance-case-w-luna-/270331954363?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ef10a44bb#ht_5442wt_1112

Not exactly the same, but similar. Would I be in error keeping it or reselling it? It was kind of a lot of money and if I can’t use it to display a Most Blessed Host in my home I might want my money back.

Thanks
Are you sure these are Communion Hosts or are they Agnus Dei’s? They look very similar and if your friend is older these may have been passed down through her family.
 
That is actually a really great idea. The Monstrance is very pretty and I would like to have it on my mantle as a devotional piece, even if I can’t have a Holy Host in it.

It looks like something like THIS would fit well? What do you think?
I wouldn’t buy a relic off eBay because as the other poster said Canon Law says it’s very wrong. You could make your own 3rd class relic by touching something to a 1st or 2nd class relic and then put that in the monstrance. Here is a link to a page about relics, hope it helps.
fisheaters.com/relics.html
God Bless.
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Are you sure these are Communion Hosts or are they Agnus Dei’s? They look very similar and if your friend is older these may have been passed down through her family.
Oh, indeed I am sure. She told me how she obtained them (sleuthing them out of mass) and in fact she only showed me in the first place because I told her I had a terrible migraine, and she offered me a Holy Host so that I might feel better in time for a big meeting. She said she saved them for urgent situations. I was feeling sick to my stomach so I said no thanks.
 
This is an unbelievable act on the part of this person. How can people even think of doing something such as this? You should tell your friend to stop this practice immediately and run, not walk to the nearest priest for a heartfelt confession. This is outrageous!
 
Oh, indeed I am sure. She told me how she obtained them (sleuthing them out of mass) and in fact she only showed me in the first place because I told her I had a terrible migraine, and she offered me a Holy Host so that I might feel better in time for a big meeting. She said she saved them for urgent situations. I was feeling sick to my stomach so I said no thanks.
I hope you are good enough friends with her to relate the seriousness of her doing this. This is one of the main reasons that the CC should do away with Communion in the hand. It would make doing this much more difficult. Your friend really needs to confess this practice.
 
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