Author Topic: Condemned Consecrations at Mass (Read 1731 times)

s2srea · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2011, 07:58:44 AM »

I've seen the Eucharist held up after consecration for about a minute to 1 1/2 minutes. I'm scratching my head as to why this would be wrong? I've never felt that it is required as part of transubstantiation , as we were taught that it occurs with the words "For this is my body"... but why would it be wrong to adore new newly consecrated host? Just curious....

s2srea · « **Reply #6 on:** May 16, 2011, 05:03:56 PM »

'bump'

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 16, 2011, 05:26:23 PM »

Quote from: s2srea

I've seen the Eucharist held up after consecration for about a minute to 1 1/2 minutes. I'm scratching my head as to why this would be wrong? I've never felt that it is required as part of transubstantiation , as we were taught that it occurs with the words "For this is my body"... but why would it be wrong to adore new newly consecrated host? Just curious....

Of course there is nothing wrong with paying adoration to the Sacred Host by means of gestures, even by an elevation slightly prolonged. An unreasonably prolonged elevation, however, may be imprudent if the Priest's weariness or health (such as weakness of limbs) would make it more probable for the Sacred Species to fall. At least this is what I have been told by some who have observed things similar to that which the original poster discussed.

I still can't find a source for which the original poster inquired.

Sigismund · « **Reply #8 on:** May 16, 2011, 06:09:29 PM »

Do the traditional rubrics specify how long the elevation is to last?

stevusmagnus · « **Reply #9 on:** May 16, 2011, 07:11:17 PM »

At NOM's the lib priests make a point to barely elevate the Host to shoulder level, as if they have tendinitis in their shoulders, and then only for few seconds. The fact that they do this on purpose and that the new rubrics allow for it, to downplay the Real Presence, is despicable.

It's like saying, "This is what I think of you, Lord. You are good enough to raise to about eye level, so we are equal, but I refuse to raise You up high for all to see and adore because You'd be distracting from the community's sense of itself."