Why was the Precious Blood denied to the laity for centuries?

[TimothyH]

We’re at about 1000 families, 7000 members ( we have a lot of particularly large families)

About the same for Mass attendance. 6 Masses, 2 Saturday evening , with the 6:00pm Saturday Mass being Extraordinary Form. That one has maybe 300-400

We also do have a Sunday evening Mass 8:00pm. That one is also substantially smaller than the others. Not that many registered parishioners. Our bishop requests that each Vicariate offer a Sunday pm Mass. We do that for our Vicariate. Most of the attendess are from other parishes who could not make their own regular Mass times, and nurses and staff from a nearby hospital.

For wine to provide both species via intinction for the 800-1000 people at the regular Masses is one decent size cruet’s worth, maybe 8oz

Super insteresting. Thanks for the comparison.

 

[PJM]

=Brendan;12797290]A Subdeacon is a cleric ( like priests and deacons) but does not receive Holy Orders.

It is a clerical role that existed in Roman Catholicism prior to 1973. Pope Paul VI suppressed it in favor of the lay role of Instituted Acolyte.

But the Eastern Catholic Churches retain that order.

They perform many of the tasks that you might expect from an Instituted Acolyte, but wear vestments, including (in the East) a stole.

The Subdeacon is still a role in the Tridentine High Mass. The EF High Mass requires a celebrant Priest, a Deacon and a Subdeacon.

Those roles are generally filled by Priests or Deacons ( if there are three priests present, one will celebrate Mass, one will vest as a Deacon and read the Gospel, one will vest as a Subdeacon and read the Epistle.

In our parish, we have a man who was ordained (small ‘o’) to the Subdiaconate while he was living in Iraq. In the '60’s he emigrated with his wife to the US, but to an area with no Chaldean parish. So his children were raised as Roman Catholics, while technically being Chaldean Catholics.

After moving to the Detroit area, where there are a large number of Chaldean parishes, his children felt more at home at Roman Catholic parishes. So with the permission of both bishops, he assists at our Masses in his role as Reader and as the equivalent of an Instituted Acolyte. Those he does, as a cleric, wear the alb and stole to which he is entitled.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdeacon

THANKS:thumbsup:
God Bless you

 

[HelenRose]

wine is expensive. unleavened hosts are not

both/either are the body blood soul & divinity of Jesus when they have been consecrated by the priest at Mass

This is more than likely the reason. Practicality probably merged into custom.

 

[Brendan_64]

There has never been any denial, the Blood of Christ is also present in the consecrated host (as is the Body of Christ present in the chalice). Both species are spiritually identical.

I think that perhaps routinely providing Holy Communion to the laity in both species has actually contributed to a misunderstanding of the relationship of the Eucharist to the Body and Blood of Christ.

A body cannot be alive without blood, blood cannot be alive without a body. Both species contain the Body and Blood of Christ.