Use of precious Body from tabernacle in EF?

[5Loaves]

During Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is it permitted to use for communion the previously consecrated precious Body reserved in the tabernacle?

 

[wasserfall]

Yes, It is commonly done.

 

[Rainaldo]

During Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is it permitted to use for communion the previously consecrated precious Body reserved in the tabernacle?

Yes, that’s what it’s in there for in the first place.

 

[Phemie]

Yes, that’s what it’s in there for in the first place.

Not really, it’s reserved in case someone should require Viaticum. Our bishop has ordered that there only be a few hosts reserved at any given time unless we know that a larger quantity will be required due to the absence of a priest on the following Sunday.

 

[PrayForMeStJude]

During Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is it permitted to use for communion the previously consecrated precious Body reserved in the tabernacle?

Why wouldn’t it be?

 

[Caspar]

During Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is it permitted to use for communion the previously consecrated precious Body reserved in the tabernacle?

Actually in the olden days it was common to consecrate a very large number of hosts at a Mass, most of which were then reposed. Then at subsequent Masses the priest would confect only enough for himself to consume and the rest would typically come from the tabernacle.

 

[YoungTradCath]

It’s very commonly done.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

Actually in the olden days it was common to consecrate a very large number of hosts at a Mass, most of which were then reposed. Then at subsequent Masses the priest would confect only enough for himself to consume and the rest would typically come from the tabernacle.

Also, the action of receiving communion and attending Mass were somewhat separated in past time. It was common for people who could not stay for an entire daily Mass (or even workers on Sundays) to come in and receive communion. And conversely some people attended Mass every day of the week, but only received a few times a year.

 

[PrayForMeStJude]

Also, the action of receiving communion and attending Mass were somewhat separated in past time. It was common for people who could not stay for an entire daily Mass (or even workers on Sundays) to come in and receive communion. And conversely some people attended Mass every day of the week, but only received a few times a year.

Yes, quite true. And at major feasts where everyone was packed into the Church or Cathedral, often priests would begin giving out communion as soon as the Mass started and would continue all the way through the end, just to be able to have time to give the people communion.

In older times, when you could walk into any large church (especially in the cities) and likely see a priest or two celebrating mass at a side-altar (no concelebration back then) you could probably find a mass or at least take communion at all hours of the day!

 

[Phemie]

Yes, quite true. And at major feasts where everyone was packed into the Church or Cathedral, often priests would begin giving out communion as soon as the Mass started and would continue all the way through the end, just to be able to have time to give the people communion.

In older times, when you could walk into any large church (especially in the cities) and likely see a priest or two celebrating mass at a side-altar (no concelebration back then) you could probably find a mass or at least take communion at all hours of the day!

Not before 1953. Until then Mass had to be celebrated before noon. In 1953, evening Masses were finally allowed (had to be celebrated after 4 p.m., so still no Masses between noon and 4 p.m.), on limited occasions.

 

[5Loaves]

Why wouldn’t it be?

I asked because our local Greek Orthodox Cathedral had their annual Greek Festival this past weekend. I was in a lecture about Orthodoxy in the Modern World. During the Q&A at the end someone asked about the way Eucharist is done in the Divine Liturgy. She spoke about how in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite which she attends everyone receives from the same consecrated bread/hosts as the priest and that somehow that was better than what she thought was going on with the Lamb in Divine Liturgy. (In Divine Liturgy everyone does receive from the same loaf as the priest.There is no reserved Eucharist ever used for communion except for special services in Great Lent called Presanctified Liturgy, where bread consecrated on Sunday is consumed in Liturgies during the week because Divine Liturgy is not permitted during the week in Lent.)

I really couldn’t understand what she meant by everyone receives from the same Eucharist the priest has. Later it occurred to me that perhaps what she meant is that only the hosts on the altar consecrated in that Mass are used in that Mass in the Extraordinary Form . If the reserved Precious Body from the tabernacle can be used in both the EF and the Ordinary Form, as you are all saying, then I am again puzzled by what she was getting at.

Thanks for answering my question. If I see her again I will try to find out what she had in mind with her question.

 

[5Loaves]

Not before 1953. Until then Mass had to be celebrated before noon. In 1953, evening Masses were finally allowed (had to be celebrated after 4 p.m., so still no Masses between noon and 4 p.m.), on limited occasions.

Yes. When I was growing up Sunday Mass was only Sunday and before noon. And Saturday afternoon was confession. Now Sundays are for soccer practice in most communities it seems.

 

[Phemie]

I really couldn’t understand what she meant by everyone receives from the same Eucharist the priest has. Later it occurred to me that perhaps what she meant is that only the hosts on the altar consecrated in that Mass are used in that Mass in the Extraordinary Form . If the reserved Precious Body from the tabernacle can be used in both the EF and the Ordinary Form, as you are all saying, then I am again puzzled by what she was getting at.

Thanks for answering my question. If I see her again I will try to find out what she had in mind with her question.

It may well be that in the parish where she attends Mass they do not go to the tabernacle unless they run out of Hosts, which is the ideal. She may not be aware that it’s not that way everywhere and that there is no rule against using the reserved species on a regular basis.

 

[ProVobis]

It may well be that in the parish where she attends Mass they do not go to the tabernacle unless they run out of Hosts, which is the ideal.

I agree. Since Vatican II, there has been more emphasis of having the same communion distributed as was consecrated at that Mass. It seems to be more meaningful that way. Why they don’t consecrate enough hosts at the EF, I don’t know.

 

[Rainaldo]

I agree. Since Vatican II, there has been more emphasis of having the same communion distributed as was consecrated at that Mass. It seems to be more meaningful that way. Why they don’t consecrate enough hosts at the EF, I don’t know.

Reception rates at EF masses fluctuate more.