Mass at home?

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Why ask if this is an “abuse”?

Would it not be just as easy to assume he is doing so with permission?
 
Not if you don’t know anything about conducting masses at home, which is why i’m asking in the first place. I just found it odd seeing a Mass being celebrated at home. I’ve never heard of that being done before. So I’m asking if this is something that can be done. Which now I’m assuming it is since you mentioned he probably had permission.
 
The title says prayers after communion but it looks more like prayers during communion. I am troubled by his eating and speaking at the same time.
 
In some cultures, it is common to have mass at a person’s home especially during house blessings. For almost every single Filipino house blessing I’ve ever attended, the priest will come, bless every room in the house then finish with a mass in the largest room of the house. That said, I never experienced a mass like the one in the video with the priest continuing to talk like that while eating the Eucharist. That was unusual.

I looked up Fr. Peter Rookey and he seems to have started a Servite Order in Ireland back in 1948 and apparently has a following of people who go to him for healing and exorcisms. He has also published a book about St. Anthony Pucci. (I’ve never heard of him, but I’m not as familiar with all the saints anyway.)

saintmichaelusa.org/fr.rookey.php

Here’s the main page:
smcenter.org/frrookey.htm

maryshop.com/catholic-gifts/frpeterrookie.html

books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=swQbH2ntYowC&dq=Fr.+Peter+Rookey&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=MLsrIrQoeQ&sig=HpATy9KaDMlcoovV6LBjrZbztmU&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
 
I came across a video on the website GodTube.com, it had an elderly priest celebrating a mass at his home. Is this a liturgical abuse? Here is the video:

godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=58259197151381b3122b
since there is no way to know if he had permission of his bishop and an elderly priest might certainly have such permission, it can only cause discomfort and damage to speculate. an attitude of charity in such matters will go a long way to avoid the spiritual damage that can result from an attitude of abuse-policing and looking for problems around every altar.
 
I have not looked at the video. But a church building is not always required for Mass.

According to the Code of Canon Law, canon 932 “The eucharistic celebration is to be carried out in a sacred place, unless in a particular case necessity requires otherwise; in this case the celebration must be in a fitting place.” (The Code of Canon Law: New revised English Translation, HarperCollins Liturgical, 1997, ISBN 000599375X.)

From the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal: “288. For the celebration of the Eucharist, the people of God normally are gathered together in a church or, if there is no church or if it is too small, then in another respectable place that is nonetheless worthy of so great a mystery. Churches, therefore, and other places should be suitable for carrying out the sacred action and for ensuring the active participation of the faithful.”

But looking up “home Masses” in the index of the book “Documents on the Liturgy 1963-1979” there are three references. One is to the 1969 Instruction “Actio pastoralis”, which has: “4. The faculty of allowing a eucharistic celebration for special groups to take place outside a place of worship is reserved to the local Ordinary or, for his own houses, to the Ordinary of religious. But, especially when it is a question of private homes or institutions, they are to grant this faculty only if the place is suitable and decent. A bedroom is always excluded.”

A footnote to this is the 1964 Motu Proprio “Pastorale munus” of Pope Paul VI. Among a list of bishop’s faculties are: “7. To permit priests to celebrate Mass outside a place of worship on an altar stone, provided the place is decent and becoming; never, however in a bedroom. This faculty can be granted in individual cases for a just cause, but it can be granted as a permanent faculty only for a more serious reason.” (Documents on the Liturgy 1963-1979, Liturgical Press, Minnesota, 1982, ISBN 0-8146-1281-4, page 259).
 
I came across a video on the website GodTube.com, it had an elderly priest celebrating a mass at his home. Is this a liturgical abuse? Here is the video:

godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=58259197151381b3122b
I will look at the video but, if its wrong to do that, then Archbishop Fulton Sheen should have been in BIG trouble a long time ago.
He had Masses said in parishoners homes. In fact, he really liked doing that.
Of course, there were people present other than him. If this video shows the priest doing a Mass at home for himself,I dunno.🤷

Edit to add, I saw people present. I flipped it forward a bit, and low and behold there were regular people there.

Sounds like he is off the inquisiton hook here.👍
 
We’ve had Mass celebrated on our home. When the priest came to bless the house and do the enthonement to the Sacred Heart, he also celebrated Mass. It was an honour for us to acutally have had Mass celebrated in our living room.
Gearoidin
 
The only abuse I see is wearing the stole over the chausable(putting his priestly authority[the symbology of the stole] over the love of God [the symbology of the chausable]).
 
Before I knew better, our parish priest celebrated Mass at our home and our oldest received First Communion at that Mass. It was followed by a celebratory meal.

The things I remember about that Mass today, and other Masses that he celebrated before parish council meetings, were that they were celebrated while we all, priest included, sat around the table. No, he wasn’t elderly and neither we we.
 
The only abuse I see is wearing the stole over the chausable(putting his priestly authority[the symbology of the stole] over the love of God [the symbology of the chausable]).

I understand this is permitted, but it does look icky to me.
 
I knew of an elderly retired priest who lived in a house across the street from a church. On days when that church didn’t offer a weekday Mass, he would celebrate Mass in his home. It was a great blessing to those who wouldn’t have otherwise been able to attend Mass on those days of the week because it wasn’t being offered.
 
In some cultures, it is common to have mass at a person’s home especially during house blessings. For almost every single Filipino house blessing I’ve ever attended, the priest will come, bless every room in the house then finish with a mass in the largest room of the house. That said, I never experienced a mass like the one in the video with the priest continuing to talk like that while eating the Eucharist. That was unusual.

I looked up Fr. Peter Rookey and he seems to have started a Servite Order in Ireland back in 1948 and apparently has a following of people who go to him for healing and exorcisms. He has also published a book about St. Anthony Pucci. (I’ve never heard of him, but I’m not as familiar with all the saints anyway.)

saintmichaelusa.org/fr.rookey.php

Here’s the main page:
smcenter.org/frrookey.htm

maryshop.com/catholic-gifts/frpeterrookie.html

books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=swQbH2ntYowC&dq=Fr.+Peter+Rookey&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=MLsrIrQoeQ&sig=HpATy9KaDMlcoovV6LBjrZbztmU&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPP1,M1
Thank you
 
I can’t watch the video from where I am, but I’m 90% certain that a priest is required to say mass everyday. If he can’t get to a church that day (especially if he’s elderly, as you described), then I’d imagine that saying mass at home is just fine.
 
I can’t watch the video from where I am, but I’m 90% certain that a priest is required to say mass everyday. If he can’t get to a church that day (especially if he’s elderly, as you described), then I’d imagine that saying mass at home is just fine.
No, while it is encouraged, a priest is under no obligation to celebrate Mass every day. An retired elderly priest who was a friend of our family had an altar in his house and celebrated his Mass every day – back in the late 50s.
 
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