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EMarshallBuckles
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Posted: Wed Mar 12th, 2008 03:14 pm |
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| I happened to be watching a service on EWTN, yesterday, when a question occurred to me. Do the various churches change the Host in the Monstrance, from time to time, or is it just sealed in there and never changed? If the Host is changed to, well, I guess you'd say, "put a fresh one in", would the old Host be consumed, during Mass, at some point, or would it be respectfully discarded in some manner? Guess that seems like some strange questions, however, I just simply wondered about how this would be handled. Thanks for any information.
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CajunRick
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Posted: Wed Mar 12th, 2008 06:14 pm |
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The host should be changed from time to time, depending on the nature of the container in which it is placed (whether it is sealed, air-tight, etc.). When it is changed it is likely not consumed because of age and possible contamination, but would be dissolved in water until it no longer has the consistency of bread, and the resulting fluid is poured onto the ground or into a special sink in the sacristy called the sacrarium. The same happens, by the way, to any hosts that may become contaminated (say, they are dropped and stepped on), or if the consecrated wine is contaminated such as by an insect. The wine is mixed with water so that is more water than wine, and the resulting fluid is poured onto the ground or into the sacrarium.
You can read more about the sacrarium in this thread.
Of course, if it is changed frequently, it may be consumed.
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Kayla
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Posted: Wed Mar 12th, 2008 06:21 pm |
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| Each week here, when we have a Holy Hour, the priest will often consecrate an extra 'larger host' (I'm sure there's a name for this!), which he will then switch with the Host which was used for Adoration the week before. Since he does the "switching" during Mass, he will generally consume the previous Host.
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CajunRick
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Posted: Wed Mar 12th, 2008 06:26 pm |
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Kayla wrote: the priest will often consecrate an extra 'larger host' (I'm sure there's a name for this!)
Nope. It's generally called the "big host" or the "priest's host". Extra-large hosts that are scored to be easily broken into 24 or so pieces are called "concelebration hosts" as the pieces are intended to be received by concelebrating priests.
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