Question about Tridentine Mass

[Fr_of_Jazz]

Is the practice of keeping the thumbs and forefingers together after the consecration to the ablutions prescribed in the written rubrics of the Tridentine Mass or was it a separate devotional practice? unwritten tradition? . . .

If in the actual rubrics, can you cite the reference and/or quote the rebrical description?

 

[Nita]

Is the practice of keeping the thumbs and forefingers together after the consecration to the ablutions prescribed in the written rubrics of the Tridentine Mass or was it a separate devotional practice? unwritten tradition? . . .

If in the actual rubrics, can you cite the reference and/or quote the rebrical description?

The following website gives the rubrics for the 1962 Roman Missale.
sanctamissa.org/en/rubrics/

Click on "VIII. The Canon of the Mass up to the Consecration"
Scroll down to the number 5 section (about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down). The last sentence in section 5 states:
*“He does not disjoin his thumbs and index fingers up to the ablution of the fingers after the Communion, except when he must touch or handle the consecrated host.” *
This applies after the host has been consecrated – after the words “HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM”

 

[Fr_of_Jazz]

The following website gives the rubrics for the 1962 Roman Missale.
sanctamissa.org/en/rubrics/

Click on "VIII. The Canon of the Mass up to the Consecration"
Scroll down to the number 5 section (about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down). The last sentence in section 5 states:
*“He does not disjoin his thumbs and index fingers up to the ablution of the fingers after the Communion, except when he must touch or handle the consecrated host.” *
This applies after the host has been consecrated – after the words “HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM”

Perfect. Thank you very much.

 

[seanflynn]

Is the practice of keeping the thumbs and forefingers together after the consecration to the ablutions prescribed in the written rubrics of the Tridentine Mass or was it a separate devotional practice? unwritten tradition? . . .

If in the actual rubrics, can you cite the reference and/or quote the rebrical description?

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[Mark1970]

In addition to the above quotation, the rubrics in the Canon, straight after the words of the consecration of the Host:

When he has pronounced these words, he genuflects imediately and adores the Sacred Host: he rises, shows It to the people, and replaces it on the corporal, and genuflecting adores It a second time; and he keeps together the index finger and the thumb of either hand, except when the Host is to be touched, until the washing of his fingers.