There is no pouring of the Precious Blood. The wine must be transformed in the sacred vessel in which it will be offered to the faithful.
The Precious Blood of Our Lord and Saviour, must be consecrated in the sacred vessel, made of gold or a precious metal. If not, it is a sacriliege, and is offensive to Our Lord. The Blood is NOT to be poured, only drank by those in a state of Grace. You should tell the priest this. There is instructions that MUST be followed in the GIRM. Yes, this is a big deal. This is the Body & Blood of Our Lord that we are talking about, not bread and wine.
In my parish the priest uses a large crystal wine decanter when filled would amount to about a litre and a half. And he consecrates the wine from in the crystal decanter before pouring it into several chalices. People have approached the priest and archbishop on this matter.
It most certainly is not a sacrilege nor is it offensive to the Lord. Glass or crystal chalices are not to be used due the fact that they break easily but that’s a far cry from being a sacrilege or offense against the Lord. Not to mention that early Christians seemed to indeed use glass chalices. Are you claiming the early Church approved of sacrilege and offenses against the Lord?
No… BUT, both of these things are now specifically forbidden by the GIRM out of reverence and simple common sense. By pouring the consecrated Blood, and by using glass or crystal, we are risking a sacrilege by spilling the Precious Blood during the pouring, or breaking the container or glass. Although the act is not a sacrilege in itself, the consequence of the act COULD be.
The issue is not just whether a vessel breaks easily (glass), is porous (unglazed crockery), or rusts (steel), but also that it should be made of a noble material. So the GIRM asks for “precious metal,” or at least gilding on the inside, or “other solid materials that, according to the common estimation in each region, are precious, for example, ebony or other hard woods, provided that such materials are suited to sacred use and do not easily break or deteriorate.” Glass used to be rare and expensive, which is why people used it for sacred vessels. Maybe crystal could be considered that way today; but the point is not that glass is (or is not) somehow ontologically precious, such that if used in 210 AD it should be used in 2010 AD.
Nothing personal; **You can’t have it both ways to say NO is not sacrilege then turn around and say well the GIRM is against such practices. I despise wishy-washy liturgical practices.
Heart **when His priests disrespect **Him **and disobey our Holy Mother Church’s instruction *. . .I don’t think “sacrilege” means whatever you seem to believe it does.
So what do you think of priests and bishops who bend the liturgical laws of the GIRM to suit their own self-righteous whimsical perceptions?
Their disobedience drives me crazy! Catholics have a right to a reverent and faithfull-to-the-books mass.
And someone doesn’t know how to obey good mother church, and listen when she tells you something…
Are you saying that your parish is the hight of litirgical perfection? If the church says no, the NO!
What he said.
The Vatican has listed both of those as being grave offenses.
Redemptionis Sacramentum
Well all I can say friend that its OK to be critical of liturgical abuses as long as our criticism doesn’t get personally biased. I did express that we should PRAY for our priests and bishops Is not forgiveness and prayer an integral part of Christian life shrouded in humility?
Come on… it’s disobedience, not sacrilege. Otherwise there are many a bishop committing sacrilege on a regular basis.
No disrespect but would you say that liturgical disobedience never crosses the boundaries of sacrilege? And particularly when such disobedience is repeated over and over again?
Wikipedia is not the best place to get CATHOLIC definitions, in other words, how the Church defines what Sacrilege is.
The use of glass as a chalice does not violate the sacred character of the Blessed Sacrament. Neither does pouring it.