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SSPX Resistance News / Re: Doubtful Sacraments Increasing in the SSPX
« Last post by Ladislaus on August 11, 2025, 06:54:26 AM »But, even then, the list with pictures would be of limited usefulness in situations where you go to a chapel less than regularly for various reasons. Even if you show up on a Sunday and the regular priest is there, you can't be sure whether what's in the ciborium in the tabernacle is actually the Blessed Sacrament, since the week before they could have brought in some fill-in.
Just as a tip, in cases like that, keep an eye out for whether the current priest (if he's known to be valid) is consecrating a ciborium during the Mass, and if he is, make sure you're in the very back for Holy Communion, the hope being that the ciborium in the tabernacle will "run out" and so the priest has to switch to the one he had just consecrated during the Mass.
I used to know an Indult / Motu priest (ordained prior to Vatican II), who would always consecrate the ciborium also when he offered the Tridentine Mass, and then would distribute Holy Communion from that one, not the one in the tabernacle, which seems contrary to normal practice. Since he also said the NOM, I doubt it was because he felt it might be invalid ... but I imagine one or another of the faithful there may have asked him for this. There were a couple of prominent families close to this priest, and who bankrolled a lot of that church's Tridentine Mass operation, so I suspect they may have had something to do with it.
But, it really is sad that the faithful are in this position with SSPX ... where you have to keep an eye on what the priest is doing, or wait until the same priest has been there two weeks in a row, or receive Holy Communion as far toward the end of the line as possible hoping that he switches ciboria. Those are the types of things that Indult Mass attendeeds used to have to do.
Just as a tip, in cases like that, keep an eye out for whether the current priest (if he's known to be valid) is consecrating a ciborium during the Mass, and if he is, make sure you're in the very back for Holy Communion, the hope being that the ciborium in the tabernacle will "run out" and so the priest has to switch to the one he had just consecrated during the Mass.
I used to know an Indult / Motu priest (ordained prior to Vatican II), who would always consecrate the ciborium also when he offered the Tridentine Mass, and then would distribute Holy Communion from that one, not the one in the tabernacle, which seems contrary to normal practice. Since he also said the NOM, I doubt it was because he felt it might be invalid ... but I imagine one or another of the faithful there may have asked him for this. There were a couple of prominent families close to this priest, and who bankrolled a lot of that church's Tridentine Mass operation, so I suspect they may have had something to do with it.
But, it really is sad that the faithful are in this position with SSPX ... where you have to keep an eye on what the priest is doing, or wait until the same priest has been there two weeks in a row, or receive Holy Communion as far toward the end of the line as possible hoping that he switches ciboria. Those are the types of things that Indult Mass attendeeds used to have to do.