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[deogratias]

Abuse: No Paten Used when Serving Communion
Documentation

RS Chapter IV, #2, section 93

GIRM Missale Romanum, Institutio Generalis, n. 118.

 

[Brendan]

More of an abuse on a Sacremental.

The emptying of the Holy Water fonts outside of the actual Triduum. (during Lent)

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Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Piazza Pio XII, 10
00120 Vatican City

Prot. N. 569/00/L

March 14, 2000

Dear Father:

This Congregation for Divine Worship has received your letter sent by fax in which you ask whether it is in accord with liturgical law to remove the Holy Water from the fonts for the duration of the season of Lent.

This Dicastery is able to respond that the removing of Holy Water from the fonts during the season of Lent is not permitted, in particular, for two reasons:

1. The liturgical legislation in force does not foresee this innovation, which in addition to being praeter legem is contrary to a balanced understanding of the season of Lent, which though truly being a season of penance, is also a season rich in the symbolism of water and baptism, constantly evoked in liturgical texts.

1. The encouragement of the Church that the faithful avail themselves frequently of the [sic] of her sacraments and sacramentals is to be understood to apply also to the season of Lent. The “fast” and “abstinence” which the faithful embrace in this season does not extend to abstaining from the sacraments or sacramentals of the Church. The practice of the Church has been to empty the Holy Water fonts on the days of the Sacred Tridium in preparation of the blessing of the water at the Easter Vigil, and it corresponds to those days on which the Eucharist is not celebrated (i.e., Good Friday and Holy Saturday).

Hoping that this resolves the question and with every good wish and kind regard, I am,

Sincerely yours in Christ,
[signed]
Mons. Mario Marini
Undersecretary

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[deogratias]

As previously requested, please do not include the documentation - only the** REFERENCE to the documentation**

A list of quoted material would be too long and too cumbersome to be useful.

Thank you

 

[OhioBob]

The Abuse: Self-Communication whereby the Communicant dips the Sacred Host into the precious blood.

Documentation:
Redemptionis Sacramentum, #104.

General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2002), #287

Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion
Under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America, #49-50

 

[deogratias]

UNLEVENED BREAD

The Abuse: Levened bread is being used instead of unlevened bread, it contains honey and is being baked at a local bakery.

Documentation:
Redemptionis Sacramentum Chapter III #1.
Congregation for Divine Worship, Instruction, Liturgicae instaurationes, 5 September 1970: AAS 62 (1970) p. 694
Code of Canon Law, can. 924 §2;

Missale Romanum, Institutio Generalis, n. 320.
Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Dominus Salvator noster, 26 March 1929, n. 1: AAS 21 (1929) pp. 631-642, here p. 632.
Dominus Salvator noster, 26 March 1929, n. 1: AAS21 (1929): AAS 21 (1929) p. 635.

 

[TeAmo]

Abuse:Standing during consecration

See GIRM #20

 

[TeAmo]

I hope this isn’t off-topic- but does anybody have documentation that says the consecration is invalid if the words are changed? I don’t just mean documentation saying “don’t change the words of the mass”- I have that. I need something more specific.

 

[deogratias]

HOMILY

The Abuse: No Homily or Homily given by other than a priest or Deacon

Missale Romanum, Institutio Generalis, n. 65 and 66

 

[deogratias]

Te Amo - please check your reference - #20 says

1. Because, however, the celebration of the Eucharist, like the entire Liturgy, is carried out through perceptible signs that nourish, strengthen, and express faith,31 the utmost care must be taken to choose and to arrange those forms and elements set forth by the Church that, in view of the circumstances of the people and the place, will more effectively foster active and full participation and more properly respond to the spiritual needs of the faithful"

Thank you
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[TeAmo]

deogratias:

Te Amo - please check your reference - #20 says

1. Because, however, the celebration of the Eucharist, like the entire Liturgy, is carried out through perceptible signs that nourish, strengthen, and express faith,31 the utmost care must be taken to choose and to arrange those forms and elements set forth by the Church that, in view of the circumstances of the people and the place, will more effectively foster active and full participation and more properly respond to the spiritual needs of the faithful"

Thank you
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Sorry!!! I just realized that I was looking at the 1975 edition. Thanks for checking up on that!

 

[TeAmo]

Ok, corrected documentation:

The Abuse: Standing during the Consecration
Documentation: See GIRM, Chapter 2, #43