Removing crucifix?

[Amy77025]

I don’t know if this topic has already been asked or not, but I wanted to know the rule about removing/covering the crucifix during Lent. I was always under the impression that you only cover/remove Christ on Good Friday… I have been a few Catholic Churches this week that have already done this. Am I wrong??

 

[Nota_Bene]

Amy77025:

I don’t know if this topic has already been asked or not, but I wanted to know the rule about removing/covering the crucifix during Lent. I was always under the impression that you only cover/remove Christ on Good Friday… I have been a few Catholic Churches this week that have already done this. Am I wrong??

It’s horribly wrong to do so. The Corpus may be covered from the Mass of Holy Thursday to the Saturday Vigil Mass, but that’s it.

 

[kmktexas]

Amy77025:

I don’t know if this topic has already been asked or not, but I wanted to know the rule about removing/covering the crucifix during Lent. I was always under the impression that you only cover/remove Christ on Good Friday… I have been a few Catholic Churches this week that have already done this. Am I wrong??

Amy, since you are in my part of town, you might consider a nice letter to Bishop DiNardo. I hear he is a stickler for the GIRM.

Where I am currently attending church, the oposite happened. We usually have a small icon-like crucifix near the altar for Mass. By icon-like, I mean it is not 3 dimensional and has considerable background imagery on it besides the corpus. Well, for Lent, that Crucifix is gone and we have a large, more traditional-looking crucifix to the side of the sanctuary. The Crucifix is great but now we have no cross at all in the sanctuary.