Simulating a Liturgy

[Lazerlike42]

I know it is against canon law to simulate a Liturgy, or it is a sin, or something of that sort. I need to know what constitutes a simulated Liturgy.

I am trying to put together a short video to explain the Mass to some people, and I would like to take a few clips of a priest dressed up at the altar holding up an unconsecrated host, and standing at the lecturn as if he were reading, so that I may incorporate these. I just need to know if this is actually illicit.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I know it is against canon law to simulate a Liturgy, or it is a sin, or something of that sort. I need to know what constitutes a simulated Liturgy.

I am trying to put together a short video to explain the Mass to some people, and I would like to take a few clips of a priest dressed up at the altar holding up an unconsecrated host, and standing at the lecturn as if he were reading, so that I may incorporate these. I just need to know if this is actually illicit.

Producing pictures for the purpose of explaining the Mass is not simulating a Liturgy. Simulating a Liturgy is allowing people to attend a Mass that they think is a real Mass, without informing them that this is not a Mass, but simply a photo session. It should be a priest who is dressed in the vestments. A lay person should not put on consecrated priestly vestments.

 

[otjm]

Producing pictures for the purpose of explaining the Mass is not simulating a Liturgy. Simulating a Liturgy is allowing people to attend a Mass that they think is a real Mass, without informing them that this is not a Mass, but simply a photo session. It should be a priest who is dressed in the vestments. A lay person should not put on consecrated priestly vestments.

Um, I think you might mean blessed vestments; last time I checked, the only things that were consecrated were the host and the wine.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Um, I think you might mean blessed vestments; last time I checked, the only things that were consecrated were the host and the wine.

I guess it depends on if you are using old language or new.

 

[porthos11]

I guess it depends on if you are using old language or new.

Yes. Priests’ hands are “consecrated” too. So are church buildings. Avowed virgins in the Church are “consecrated virgins.” Bishops are consecrated. Chalices and patens. All these are consecrated.