Mass celebration

[ngoyaemjukuu]

NOTE: In Developing countries.

if stole is forgotten can a priest celebrate Mass?

 

[Mary_Ellen]

Yes. Even in developed countries.

 

[Nelka]

 

[Crusaderbear]

Remember, it’s the words not the wardrobe that matters! Peace to you!

 

[FrDavid96]

A stole is required for Mass. There is nothing optional about it. It’s the same answer as the numerous other threads where you ask the same question about other liturgical items.

What is required is required. Only that which the Church defines as optional (such as a Missal stand) are optional. There is nothing optional about the stole.

 

[FrDavid96]

Remember, it’s the words not the wardrobe that matters! Peace to you!

Not true.

The sacred vestments do indeed matter, and very much so.

 

[FrDavid96]

Yes. Even in developed countries.

And if he does do it, regardless of geography, he is in the wrong.

Can he do it? Yes.

May he do it? No.

 

[PatrickKen]

A stole is required for Mass. There is nothing optional about it. It’s the same answer as the numerous other threads where you ask the same question about other liturgical items.

What is required is required. Only that which the Church defines as optional (such as a Missal stand) are optional. There is nothing optional about the stole.

I’m sure there are circumstances where it would be just fine

 

[janeway529]

NOTE: In Developing countries.

if stole is forgotten can a priest celebrate Mass?

A priest once forgot his stole and borrowed my Mom’s scarf and used it as a stole.

 

[peter26]

A priest once forgot his stole and borrowed my Mom’s scarf and used it as a stole.

Was it the correct liturgical colour?

 

[M-Dent]

A stole is required for Mass. There is nothing optional about it. It’s the same answer as the numerous other threads where you ask the same question about other liturgical items.

What is required is required. Only that which the Church defines as optional (such as a Missal stand) are optional. There is nothing optional about the stole.

Thanks Fr.

Unfortunately, many laity fail to appreciate the fullness of the Sacred Liturgy.

The Requisites for the Celebration of Mass
IV. Sacred Vestments

In the Church, which is the Body of Christ, not all members have the same function. This diversity of offices is shown outwardly in the celebration of the Eucharist by the diversity of sacred vestments, which must therefore be a sign of the function proper to each minister. Moreover, these same sacred vestments should also contribute to the decoration of the sacred action itself. The vestments worn by Priests and Deacons, as well as the attire worn by lay ministers, are blessed before being put into liturgical use according to the rite described in the Roman Ritual.[136]

1. The stole is worn by the Priest around his neck and hanging down in front of his chest, while it is worn by the Deacon over his left shoulder and drawn diagonally across the chest to the right side, where it is fastened.

usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-6.cfm#footnote-10010-136-backlink

The stole is the distinctive element of the raiment of the ordained minister and it is always worn in the celebration of the sacraments and sacramentals. It is a strip of material that is embroidered, according to the norm, whose color varies with respect to the liturgical season or feast day.

**OFFICE FOR THE LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF **

 

[Tarpeian_Rock]

I know it’s an extreme example, but then were the secret Auschwitz Masses of St Kolbe valid - presuming he didn’t have a stole? I wouldn’t have thought a stole affected validity, but given Rome’s concern with “raiment”…

 

[M-Dent]

The extreme examples are rarely helpful in discussions. There is a reason the Church Blesses liturgical vestments. Though many fail to appreciate the simple realities – such as having a sacred function in the liturgy.

 

[FrDavid96]

I know it’s an extreme example, but then were the secret Auschwitz Masses of St Kolbe valid - presuming he didn’t have a stole? I wouldn’t have thought a stole affected validity, but given Rome’s concern with “raiment”…

Of course they were valid (assuming all else).

The problem is that people try to conflate times of dire persecution or other very extreme situations with the ordinary and everyday.

Just because priests in concentration camps (or other dire situations) did what they needed to do under the circumstances is no excuse for a priest today who has access to liturgical items (by any reasonable standard) to omit those items.

Unfortunately, either laziness or a lack of regard for the sanctity of the Mass is the real driving force that leads to kind of equivocation.

And it’s perfectly right for Rome to be concerned about proper vesture for the clergy. This is not an unimportant issue; it is proper to the Mass.

 

[FrDavid96]

The extreme examples are rarely helpful in discussions. There is a reason the Church Blesses liturgical vestments. Though many fail to appreciate the simple realities – such as having a sacred function in the liturgy.

It’s like I mentioned in a similar thread recently:

What if someone went to a dentist to have a tooth pulled and the dentist took out a pair of old rusty pliers and said to you “in the WW2 camps, dentists pulled teeth with tools like this.”??? or a surgeon who performs surgery with a pocket knife and says “they did it this way in the camps.” ???

In reality, the excuse is not very common. The problem is really the method of reasoning that’s employed. It’s often about finding any excuse just to be lazy or to disregard the obligation to respect the sacred.