Water for Washing Hands At Mass

[CATHOLICbrl]

I still have never heard of pouring the ablutions down any hole or on any surface. I have only ever seen the priest/deacon consume the water.

Again, Lavabo water doesn’t really matter, but if it is holy water it should be disposed of reverently.

Lavabo water, before communion, in my mind that water is used before the hosts have been consecrated. Meaning those particles would not contain the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ.

What’s used after communion would contain consecrated host particles .

 

[andy4d]

It’s a health and safety issue. I don’t know how widespread it is. Once a week the Holy water stoops need cleaning because of standing water. It’s only been happening for a little while. Unfortunately the parish has gone from common sense to overkill on health and safety. Even fire drills at Mass! They waited till after the final blessing which is something.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Lavabo water, before communion, in my mind that water is used before the hosts have been consecrated. Meaning those particles would not contain the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ.

What’s used after communion would contain consecrated host particles .

Yes, right, and that water is called the ablutions. That is what I meant there.

 

[YoungTradCath]

It’s a health and safety issue. I don’t know how widespread it is. Once a week the Holy water stoops need cleaning because of standing water. It’s only been happening for a little while. Unfortunately the parish has gone from common sense to overkill on health and safety. Even fire drills at Mass! They waited till after the final blessing which is something.

I don’t know if I’m just some weird clean freak or something, but if I were in charge of those things, I would change the holy water every day!

 

[ProVobis]

I don’t know if I’m just some weird clean freak or something, but if I were in charge of those things, I would change the holy water every day!

Bring a Brillo pad to wipe away all the algae that forms in there as well.

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

Traditionally, the lavabo bowl is used before the Consecration, but during the ablution, the priest holds his index and middle fingers and thumbs over the chalice while water, or wine and water, are poured over them, and the water is then consumed.

Water for the lavabo bowl is unblessed in the Ordinary Form, and can be poured down the sink, but in the Extraordinary Form, it is blessed and should be put down the sacrarium. One of the practical reasons for the lavabo is to remove any droplets of wine on the priest’s hands, lest they touch linens or unconsecrated hosts.

 

[paperwight66]

I am wondering if we are talking at cross-purposes here?

Yes. of course the water used for the ablutions could possibly contain fragments, so is drunk by whoever is purifying the vessels.

But I get the impression that the OP is referring to the little bowl of water that is kept for the use of rinsing fingers after distributing Holy Communion, and which in our parish at least is kept by the side of the Tabernacle.

 

[Aran_Houlihan]

Before is normally to remove any dirt from your hands even tho it doesn’t probly but afterward is to remove any fragments, of the blessed sacrament are is next to the tabernacle

 

[sealabeag]

I am wondering if we are talking at cross-purposes here?

Yes. of course the water used for the ablutions could possibly contain fragments, so is drunk by whoever is purifying the vessels.

But I get the impression that the OP is referring to the little bowl of water that is kept for the use of rinsing fingers after distributing Holy Communion, and which in our parish at least is kept by the side of the Tabernacle.

Yes, this.