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Offline cathsurgeon

Urgent answers needed!!! TLM priest finger placement
« on: January 06, 2024, 09:56:42 PM »

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He places his joined hands on the edge of the altar, so that only the tips of the small fingers touch the front of it, and silently prays that, by the merits of the Saints whose relics are in the altar, and of all the Saints, God may pardon all his sins. At the words quorum relíquiæ hic sunt (whose relics are here), he spreads his hands and kisses the altar.
Paging Lad or any other former seminarians. Anyone know what is the symbolism of the bolded part? Why can't the whole of the hands joint together rest on the mensa of the altar? 
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Offline Quo vadis Domine

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Re: Urgent answers needed!!! TLM priest finger placement
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2024, 06:24:25 AM »

Why is this so “urgent”?
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Offline 2Vermont

Re: Urgent answers needed!!! TLM priest finger placement
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2024, 06:51:59 AM »
Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on January 07, 2024, 06:24:25 AM
Why is this so “urgent”?
That was exactly my thought.
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Offline Miseremini

Re: Urgent answers needed!!! TLM priest finger placement
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2024, 03:11:33 PM »
Quote from: Quo vadis Domine on January 07, 2024, 06:24:25 AM
Why is this so “urgent”?
Quote from: 2Vermont on January 07, 2024, 06:51:59 AM
That was exactly my thought.
Maybe some retard was spreading detrimental comments about the priest in his chapel and the OP wanted a good concrete response quickly...maybe several other reasons... was it necessary to be so flip?
The OP hasn't posted since.  Good way to spread our welcome to newbies....NOT.
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Offline Yeti

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Re: Urgent answers needed!!! TLM priest finger placement
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2024, 03:31:15 PM »
From Fr. Nicholas Gihr's book, page 527 (the best place to look stuff like this up). It doesn't appear to have a symbolism related to the pinky finger, but is simply the priest bowing down to express humility.
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