Odd Q: Can the laity reserve the host

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Can the laity reserve the Holy Eucharist at home? so they can give daily adoration to the blessed sacrament?

Have not been able to find any information about this… would greatly appreciate information and links to information :).

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Can the laity reserve the Holy Eucharist at home? so they can give daily adoration to the blessed sacrament?

Have not been able to find any information about this… would greatly appreciate information and links to information :).

Thank You
The short answer, unfortunately, is no, definitely not. The slightly longer answer is that with the permission of your bishop (which is never granted for this purpose except rarely to convents and the like), or in time of severe persecution when the Church is forced underground, such a thing might be allowed. You can read the relevant section of canon law here.
 
Can the laity reserve the Holy Eucharist at home? so they can give daily adoration to the blessed sacrament?

Have not been able to find any information about this… would greatly appreciate information and links to information :).

Thank You
It all boils down to what the local bishop is willing to permit. I am sure in some very remote areas with no churches the Blessed Sacrament is most certainly reserved in carefully selected private homes.

I know of a privately owned chapel here in California (maintained for workers on a large ranch/farm) that also reposes the Blessed Sacrament with the local bishop’s approval.

Further if you visited a place like the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, MA I would bet dollars to dimes that the Blessed Sacrament is in repose in the Kennedy’s private chapel with the blessing of the (at one time) local ordinary.
 
It all boils down to what the local bishop is willing to permit. I am sure in some very remote areas with no churches the Blessed Sacrament is most certainly reserved in carefully selected private homes.

I know of a privately owned chapel here in California (maintained for workers on a large ranch/farm) that also reposes the Blessed Sacrament with the local bishop’s approval.

Further if you visited a place like the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, MA I would bet dollars to dimes that the Blessed Sacrament is in repose in the Kennedy’s private chapel with the blessing of the (at one time) local ordinary.
yeah lets use the Kennedy’s as a model for catholics…
 
Back when Fr. Kevin was our pastor, there were times when he would have to celebrate Mass with not another ordained man in the house. He had knee problems that did not allow him to climb the steps to the Tabernacle on the back of the altar; in fact, it used to hurt me just to watch him hobble around on level ground. On those occasions, one of the EMsHC would reserve the unconsumed hosts. I’m sure permission from the Bishop was involved. So the answer to this question cannot be an unqualified “no.”

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Back when Fr. Kevin was our pastor, there were times when he would have to celebrate Mass with not another ordained man in the house. He had knee problems that did not allow him to climb the steps to the Tabernacle on the back of the altar; in fact, it used to hurt me just to watch him hobble around on level ground. On those occasions, one of the EMsHC would reserve the unconsumed hosts. I’m sure permission from the Bishop was involved. So the answer to this question cannot be an unqualified “no.”

DaveBj
This is not what the question is about. It is about a lay person having permission to keep the Blessed Sacrament reserved in their home. This is not permitted. It may be that some family has a private chapel with a tabernacle and permission to reserve the Holy Eucharist, but this would entail a priest saying Mass there at least once each fortnight (I believe this is the required time period), since the Host reserved would be consumed and a new one reserved, so that the Host does not become moldy …

Such permissions are not lightly given.
 
Can. 936 In the house of a religious institute or some other pious house, the Most Holy Eucharist is to be reserved only in the church or principal oratory attached to the house. For a just cause, however, the ordinary can also permit it to be reserved in another oratory of the same house.
It seems that if a private household has a private oratory, then they are allowed to keep the Blessed Sacrament reserved, as long as Mass is celebrated there twice a month
§2. In sacred places where the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved, there must always be someone responsible for it and, insofar as possible, a priest is to celebrate Mass there at least twice a month.
 
The answer is no. According to Redemptionis Sacramentum:
[131.] Apart from the prescriptions of Canon 934 § 1, it is forbidden to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in a place that is not subject in a secure way to the authority of the diocesan Bishop, or where there is a danger of profanation. Where such is the case, the diocesan Bishop should immediately revoke any permission for reservation of the Eucharist that may already have been granted.224
[132.] **No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law. **It should also be borne in mind that removing or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or casting them away are graviora delicta, the absolution of which is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.225
We are not talking about religious communities here. We are talking about the average lay man or lay woman.
 
The answer is no. According to Redemptionis Sacramentum:

No one may carry the Most Holy Eucharist to his or her home, or to any other place contrary to the norm of law.
The question was one of reserve, not carry.

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The answer is no. According to Redemptionis Sacramentum:

We are not talking about religious communities here. We are talking about the average lay man or lay woman.
But you are talking about carrying, not reserving. As I quoted from Canon Law, with the bishops permission, a “pious house” may reserve the Blessed Sacrament in an oratory or chapel, as long as a priest celebrates Mass there twice a month.
 
The question was one of reserve, not carry.

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But, Stylites, it stands to reason that if you have more than one Sacred Host, what are you going to do with the pyx at home? Thus, the question does relate to reservation.
 
But, Stylites, it stands to reason that if you have more than one Sacred Host, what are you going to do with the pyx at home? Thus, the question does relate to reservation.
What? I guess you mean if you brought Communion to the sick, and had some elft over? One would consume it, of course (if that is what you mean). I don’t totally understand what you are saying.
 
yeah lets use the Kennedy’s as a model for catholics…
We can use the real VonTrapp family (who not only had a chapel but retained a chaplain before they fled Austria) if you like, it is irrelevant in this case.
 
I know of only one instance. It is the home of a couple of lay oblates. However, this home is a little different. They also operate it as a B&B for those who wish to visit our abbey, situated about a mile away down the same road. The abbey recommends retreatants to it when either the men’s or women’s (or both) guest houses are full. They have a chapel, with a tabernacle, and a priest from the monastery says Mass there I believe once a week, and at other times the chapel is open for Eucharistic adoration.
 
Here are some older threads that dealt with the matter:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=224951&highlight=communion+service+at+home

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=201434&highlight=communion+service+at+home

Even though the circumstances are somewhat different, I think that the OP can get the general gist of things.
The issue, though, is if it is okay to have the Blessed Sacrament exposed at one’s house. From the Canon Law already cited, it shows that it is okay as long as four conditions are met:
  1. The approval of the Bishop is given
  2. It is a pious house
  3. It is within a chapel or oratory
  4. Mass is celebrated twice a month there
As far as carrying it to the house, this would not need to be done. If Mass is celebrated there, one of the Hosts would be used for the Monstrance. This is, in fact, one of the reasons why Mass needs to be celebrated there, so that the Host used in the Monstrance wouldn’t become moldy, etc.

Therefore, while your citation is ligitamate, benedictgal, it does not seem to apply to this case.
 
As far as carrying it to the house, this would not need to be done. If Mass is celebrated there, one of the Hosts would be used for the Monstrance. This is, in fact, one of the reasons why Mass needs to be celebrated there, so that the Host used in the Monstrance wouldn’t become moldy, etc.

Therefore, while your citation is ligitamate, benedictgal, it does not seem to apply to this case.
The Host cannot be kept in a Monstrance unless it will be attended 24 hours a day, something I doubt can happen in a home:
(Redemptionis Sacramentum) [138.] Still, the Most Holy Sacrament, when exposed, must never be left unattended even for the briefest space of time. It should therefore be arranged that at least some of the faithful always be present at fixed times, even if they take alternating turns.
If reserved off-site, the Blessed Sacrament must therefore be in a proper tabernacle, and in a secure place safe from profanation.
 
The Host cannot be kept in a Monstrance unless it will be attended 24 hours a day, something I doubt can happen in a home:

If reserved off-site, the Blessed Sacrament must therefore be in a proper tabernacle, and in a secure place safe from profanation.
I said used in the Monstrance. I did not say kept in the Monstrance for perpetual adoration. The Host used for that purpose can be kept in a luna in a tabernacle. So my post is still correct.
 
The Host cannot be kept in a Monstrance unless it will be attended 24 hours a day, something I doubt can happen in a home:
Yes it can but then the entire monstrance must be reserved. I have seen in some churches there they have what amounts to a gorgeous and secure “cabinet” (it’s a tabernacle) attached to the rear wall of the sanctuary. To expose the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance all they had to do was unlock the “cabinet” and open its doors. Sublime.
 
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