Priest Not Vested Properly at Mass?

[OraLabora]

We also need to keep in mind that as we get older our bodies do not regulate temperature as efficiently. Heat waves like we have had in Canada this summer (days of 35C and humidex in the mid-40s) are murder, literally, on the elderly and some 100 or so elderly people died during the heat wave. The same goes for extreme cold. I can say for certain that being 60 and diabetic I don’t handle temperature extremes as well as when I was 20 and healthy.

We don’t know the priest’s age. I’d cut him a lot of slack. Nobody is called to pass out while celebrating Mass, and comparisons to relatively young soldiers in the desert are extremely rude and uncharitable.

 

[Roseeurekacross]

Amen brother.

 

[AlbertDerGrosse]

You mean introduce machines into the choir/sanctuary that aren’t in any way allowed for in the GIRM? Quick, somebody lend me their pearls to clutch!

No, no, no. No fans, and no dispensations from use of the chasuble. Father should offer it up. Should he keel over, well I suppose that makes him a martyr and he’s spiritually better off for that.

 

[BartholomewB]

That’s what I’ve been told, too, about the stole. Except the bit about battlefield conditions in wartime – that’s new to me!

 

[joeybaggz]

Except the bit about battlefield conditions in wartime – that’s new to me!

There are any number of instances in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, when Mass was said on the hood of a jeep )for an altar) and the priest, an officer in the service, in fatigues with nothing but a stole around his neck, said mass for catholic soldiers (and anyone else who wanted to attend) Certainly not custom, but emergency battlefield situations called for such efforts. The are pictures of these masses in old history books and I guess on the internet, though I haven’t seen them myself.

 

[XXI_4]

I should add that: If the priest was so concerned with the heat and had to avoid wearing the chasuble, then why did he insist on singing all verses of all hymns, include three verses of the entrance hymn and six verses of the offertory hymn? On that particular day, he did not process (again, because of the heat). Only one verse was needed to accompany the walk from his chair to the altar.

I felt that he was not following the rubrics when he should be, then elongating certain parts of the Mass when it wasn’t necessary.

Easy for many forum members to say, but I find it difficult to speak with the priest about this for I was just a visitor of that parish.

Well, since we’re so on fire for rules, and since you are on a public forum accusing the priest of being untruthful in his statements and hence violating the rubrics, we should consider this:

CCC 2477 Respect for the reputation of persons forbids every attitude and word likely to cause them unjust injury. He becomes guilty:

• of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor;
• of detraction who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another’s faults and failings to persons who did not know them;
• of calumny who, by remarks contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for false judgments concerning them.

Since you have not presented any evidence that this priest is intentionally and lackadaisically violating the rubrics without dispensation or other valid reason, then perhaps you should worry less about the speck in the priest’s eye…

 

[CilladeRoma]

You win the internet today!