Maronite Liturgy - Leavened Bread Licit Matter?

[CorAdCorLoquitur]

Hello, last night, I attended the Maronite Divine Liturgy for Holy Thursday. Just prior to the consecration, the priest whipped out a leavened loaf of bread, saying that he had baked it earlier that afternoon.

Father’s intentions are good. He desires that close participation in the Last Supper. But is leavened bread licit matter for consecration in the Maronite Divine Liturgy?

 

[ziapueblo]

We use leavened bread as Byzantine Catholics. Not sure about the Maronite Church.

ZP

 

[Pitcairn17]

Hello, last night, I attended the Maronite Divine Liturgy for Holy Thursday. Just prior to the consecration, the priest whipped out a leavened loaf of bread, saying that he had baked it earlier that afternoon.

Father’s intentions are good. He desires that close participation in the Last Supper. But is leavened bread licit matter for consecration in the Maronite Divine Liturgy?

I have been to several Maronite liturgies in different states, and each time leavened bread was used.

“Whipped out?” Is that really what he did in the context of the Liturgy, or were those perjorative words a signal of your personal judgment on what you saw?

 

[ziapueblo]

@Masihi, do Maronites use leavened or unleavened bread?

ZP

 

[TomH1]

Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic churches use leavened bread for Prosphora. I have read that the Syro-Malabar and Maronite churches adopted the use of unleavened bread due to Latinisations. That would suggest the proper praxis in those churches is leavened bread.

 

[TomH1]

“Whipped out?” Is that really what he did in the context of the Liturgy, or were those perjorative words a signal of your personal judgment on what you saw?

Yes, I, too, suspect the reverend priest did not whip the loaf out as a magician would produce a rabbit from a top hat. AFAIAW leavened bread is the proper matter for the Maronite Church.

 

[dochawk]

the priest whipped out a leavened loaf of bread,

Are you trying to be offensive here?

Even if the question didn’t advertise your ignorance on the issue (as noted above, it is leavened bread that should not be used at a Maronite liturgy, being a latinization), calling your phrasing “highly disrespectful to clergy” would be a gross understatement.