Question regarding the chalice

[Tamsulosin]

Thank you very much for the information. Tam

 

[Tamsulosin]

How do priests carry a Ciborium in a car, without the lid falling off and spilling the contents? One would’t know where to put it safely in a car…Don’t they have a more practical sacred vessel to transport the consecrated bread to bed-ridden people?

 

[japhy]

How do priests carry a Ciborium in a car, without the lid falling off and spilling the contents? One would’t know where to put it safely in a car…Don’t they have a more practical sacred vessel to transport the consecrated bread to bed-ridden people?

Most ciboria have a lid, and when they are being transported, they are placed in a carrying-case which has a form-fitting interior. But, more likely, they carry the Blessed Sacrament in a smaller, simpler vessel, a pyx. This is a disc-shaped vessel, just about the size of a Host and several times thicker, for holding several Hosts.

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This web page has a great guide to sacred vessels: Sancta Missa.

 

[Lycoming]

The Main Chalice should be royal and majestic, worthy of a king. The chalice is to be made of durable and precious metal, never glass, clay, wood, et cetra. The more ornate the chalice the better. I’ve seen some priests use wine glasses. Whenever I see this I want to go up to him after Mass and give him a solid love-tap in the head as prescribed in the monastic rulebooks. I’m sure Jesus wouldn’t mind. Bruises go away. He didn’t give us knuckles for nothing.

One less chalice is laziness. If you want this issue fixed just tell him you percieve his laziness to be a bit of a let down; that you really thought more highly of him.

Take a look at some online catalogues and buy one. Bring it to bishop, as a gift, and say that you’re offended that your parish priest isn’t using a proper main chalice. Ask him to have his henchmen bring it to your parish priest personally. That’ll take care of things.

That is not always true. I have seen some chalices on EWTN for example that look ridiculous because they are so ornate. Actually they are ridiculously ostentatious. I have also seen some fairly simple chalices on EWTN that were things of beauty.

In my parish we have a fairly ornate chalice and a matched set of simpler ones. We use 4 of the 5 to distribute the Precious Blood on Sundays. Two priests like to use the ornate chalice while using the other 4 to distribute. One likes to use just the 4 matched ones. It has nothing to do with “laziness.” It is his personal preference of showing and drinking from the same sort of chalice that will be offered to the faithful. Finally my pastor likes to use 3 of the matched ones plus the ornate one, with the ornate one also being used to distribute communion. He wants the faithful to experience drinking from the main chalice. There is nothing from the Church to my knowledge that demands larger or more ornate main chalice. From Redemptionis Sacramentum:

[105.] “…It is praiseworthy, by reason of the sign value, to use a main chalice of larger dimensions, together with smaller chalices.”

Buy a chalice and attempt to force its use at your parish through your bishop and it’s sure to sit unused in a closet. If the bishop would accept it at all. Better to make the offer to your pastor and then leave a catalog or two for him to choose one.

 

[Lycoming]

In my parish the priest (“never”) uses the Paten as if it were just a superfluous piece of junk of no worth. It’s sad when you see the forth-degree of the Knights of Columbus make their annual sacred vessel (“chalices and ciborium”) presentation and the priest later ditches the new Paten’s in some obscure corner cupboard in the Sacristy never to be seen again. Being a Knight myself and a former Sacristan I got to witness this first hand.
Then again some parishes in my archdiocese use glass crystal for chalices and ciborium which I abhor. The Catholic Encyclopedia gives a nice History of the Chalice.
newadvent.org/cathen/03561a.htm

A paten need not simply be a flat or almost flat disk. Many can “hold” quite a few hosts. Depending on the size of the Mass I think it’s much better for a priest to use a large paten that can actually hold all the matter that will eventually be distributed rather than a small disk with just his host and and an open ciborium.

Here is a beautiful paten that would hold at least a couple of hundred hosts:

adrianhamers.com/images/products/paten/patens4548.jpg

 

[Tamsulosin]

I have never seen this happen fortunately,but what would be the procedure should, for example, an boy altar server should trip on one of the steps, and a sacred vessel fall?