Something new at Mass this weekend

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…besides the new translation…

The first Sunday of Advent seems like a convenient start date for our priest when he wants to change something. Last year or the year before, during the first week of Advent, we began reciting the entrance psalm for daily Mass - which he noted we should have been doing all along. This year the altar servers donned new [very nice] albs.

But the thing that I noticed this past weekend, after the servers had placed the chalice and missal on the altar, as Father was arranging things, he took a folded cloth (the corporal?) from on top of the chalice (?), unfolded it, and placed it on the altar.

Is this a change that was implemented with the translation, or is it simply an option that he now wishes to utilize?

Just curious…
 
acadian said:
…besides the new translation…

The first Sunday of Advent seems like a convenient start date for our priest when he wants to change something. Last year or the year before, during the first week of Advent, we began reciting the entrance psalm for daily Mass - which he noted we should have been doing all along. This year the altar servers donned new [very nice] albs.

But the thing that I noticed this past weekend, after the servers had placed the chalice and missal on the altar, as Father was arranging things, he took a folded cloth (the corporal?) from on top of the chalice (?), unfolded it, and placed it on the altar.

Is this a change that was implemented with the translation, or is it simply an option that he now wishes to utilize?

Just curious…
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The corporal has always been used. What did he do before this past weekend at that point?
 
Prior to this weekend, the corporal was already on the altar at the start of Mass.
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
sigh And here I was getting all excited that it might have been a gasp Chalice veil.😃
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Maybe next year. ;).

But the unfolding of the corporal…I don’t remember seeing that done at any of the churches i’ve attended in recent memory. Can anyone tell me more? Is it common in other areas?
 
acadian said:
Maybe next year. ;).

But the unfolding of the corporal…I don’t remember seeing that done at any of the churches i’ve attended in recent memory. Can anyone tell me more? Is it common in other areas?
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I know that in my parish the corporal is not placed on the altar before the Offertory. When the chalice is brought to the altar it’s covered by the pall and topped by the folded corporal. As the altar is prepared, the corporal is put in place and the chalice set on it.
 
I am an altar server and have never been asked to place the corporal on the altar. I have always assumed that the sacristans did that.

We have serveral linen covers for the altar, made by the Columbietts, or the school children, or various ladies throughout the parish. One of these are always on tha altar with the corporal on top of that.

I bring the chalice with a purificator on top of it and pressed down into it, paten or bread bowl with host(s), and pall. This is a typical weekday Mass with >50 people. The corporal has always there when I bring the chalice.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
I am an altar server and have never been asked to place the corporal on the altar. I have always assumed that the sacristans did that.

We have serveral linen covers for the altar, made by the Columbietts, or the school children, or various ladies throughout the parish. One of these are always on tha altar with the corporal on top of that.

I bring the chalice with a purificator on top of it and pressed down into it, paten or bread bowl with host(s), and pall. This is a typical weekday Mass with >50 people. The corporal has always there when I bring the chalice.

-Tim-
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GIRM 73. At the beginning of the Liturgy of the Eucharist the gifts which will become Christ’s Body and Blood are brought to the altar.

First of all, the altar or Lord’s table, which is the centre of the whole Liturgy of the Eucharist, is made ready when on it are placed the corporal, purificator, Missal and chalice (unless this last is prepared at the credence table).
  1. Likewise these should be prepared:
    a) next to the Priest’s chair: the Missal and, if appropriate, a hymnal;
    b) at the ambo: the Lectionary;
    c) on the credence table: the chalice, corporal, purificator, and, if appropriate, the pall; the paten and, if needed, ciboria; bread for the Communion of the Priest who presides, the Deacon, the ministers, and the people; cruets containing the wine and the water, unless all of these are presented by the faithful in the procession at the Offertory; the vessel of water to be blessed, if the sprinkling of holy water takes place; the Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful; and whatever is needed for the washing of hands.
It is a praiseworthy practice for the chalice to be covered with a veil, which may be either of the colour of the day or white.
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
sigh And here I was getting all excited that it might have been a gasp Chalice veil.😃
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We got a new priest in July. We NOW use a veil and a burse and the corporal is inside the burse. It’s so wonderful to have a really traditional priest, and he’s such a great priest. 🙂

I’m not sure where the corporal was with the priest that just left, he was very un-traditional.
 
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