The tabernacle? Are all of them veiled

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On the inside?

My understanding is that there is a veil on the inside of it where the Blessed Sacrament is?
 
Not necessarily. Go to Google Images and search “open tabernacle” and you’ll see a variety of images.
 
I have experienced opening tabernacles in 4 or 5 parishes. None of them had interior veils.
 
I just saw beautiful photos. I didn’t know tabernacles were still in use.

The more I find out about the rich and ancient history of the Catholic Church, the more I am in reverence of the traditions.
 
TemperanceOfGod said:
I just saw beautiful photos. I didn’t know tabernacles were still in use.

The more I find out about the rich and ancient history of the Catholic Church, the more I am in reverence of the traditions.
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Me, too.

Very rich, very beautiful, very reverent. It draws me into the deeper mystery of the Mystical Body of Christ.

It leaves me in awe.
 
The ones I know of that did not have a veil across the opening actually had the veil fixed to the door to the tabernacle. So when the door was closed the veil was essentially drawn since it was affixed to the door itself. I guess I just assumed all tabernacles had either a fixed or movable veil since I’ve never personally seen one without some type of veil (not saying they don’t exist, but I’ve never seen one - not that I go looking in every tabernacle)
 
I’ve seen tabernacles with interior veils, or exterior veils, or both (extremely rare in my experience), or neither. YMMV.
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I didn’t know tabernacles were still in use.
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Are there Catholic churches that don’t have tabernacles? Where do they repose the Blessed Sacrament? :ehh:
 
I know of one parish where the tabernacle always has a veil on it, but I also know of severals others that do not have veils. The one that is veiled is part of a high altar that has been there ever since the church was built in the 1800s. This church is also on the National Register of Historic Places. It is an absolutely gorgeous church. It is the same church where my spiritual director is the pastor.
 
Yeah, the tabernacles in all the churches of my SD’s parish are veiled too. None of the ones in my own are.
 
Thankfully, my FSSP parish has a veil outside the tabernacle, and another inside. :highprayer:
 
We have a veiled tabernacle in our church. The adoration chapel is on the other side. So there are little doors and veils on both sides.
 
My parish has curtains and they change colour according to the lliturgical year . The one in are lady chappel isn’t veiled
 
The reason there is usually a veil is two-fold.

It reminds us that God (in the Body of Christ) is to be found in the Holy of Holies as His presence was found in the Temple (where the arc of the covenant was to be kept) before the Crucifixion.

The word tabernacle means tent. When Israel wandered in the desert, the arc of the covenant was kept in a tent and so the tabernacle (tent) is where we keep keep our Lord in our temple.
 
I remember that the Tabernacle in the parish where I grew up was veiled. The one in my present parish is not veiled.

In construction there is no similarity between the two. The one back home was a built into an altar (the main altar before Vat. II, a side altar after Vat. II) and the one in the present parish is a heavy free-standing metal cylinder similar to this:
stisidore-yubacity.org/tabernacle02.jpg
 
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