tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post3019254243844135378..comments2024-03-26T12:56:54.350+00:00Comments on LMS Chairman: Some worries about Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Part 3Latin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-60405352076314619052018-07-10T09:07:08.176+01:002018-07-10T09:07:08.176+01:00You did not read the aforementioned excerpts,did Y...You did not read the aforementioned excerpts,did You?!Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Versterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128928800453615354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-22651830947238301002018-07-07T21:04:31.674+01:002018-07-07T21:04:31.674+01:00"We expose the Blessed Sacrament to view not ..."We expose the Blessed Sacrament to view not to show off, not to thrust into the spotlight the holiest thing we have in the hope that it have some magical effect on our opponents."<br /><br />Dr Shaw, may I assure you that the Catholics I know who love and promote Eucharistic Adoration do not have this intention. Rather they desire Eucharistic intimacy with Our Lord, the opportunity to spend time adoring him and strength and grace for the New Evangelisation. <br /><br />DomJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11786302620469277753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-47823813741420964202018-07-07T18:01:28.791+01:002018-07-07T18:01:28.791+01:00No,Thank You for taking the time to read such Impo...No,Thank You for taking the time to read such Important Words of Wisdom from a Sane Monk that I Quoted. As a Filipino,I Prefer a Convent of Pink Sisters of Perpetual Adoration than a Parish Adoration Chapel. Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Versterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128928800453615354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-22471942262157089732018-07-07T15:36:36.125+01:002018-07-07T15:36:36.125+01:00Absolutely right. Thanks for posting this.Absolutely right. Thanks for posting this.Joseph Shawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-34836709063574478852018-07-07T11:24:36.278+01:002018-07-07T11:24:36.278+01:00Excerpts from Fr Mark Kirby's Blog Entry:
&q...Excerpts from Fr Mark Kirby's Blog Entry: <br /><br />"It should be noted that, until the post-conciliar chaos, exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance was always considered a particularly solemn and festive occasion, a kind of condensed expression of the jubilant feast of Corpus Domini. Exposition called for an array of candles, flowers, incense, and sacred ministers. It was considered special, out of the ordinary, and the occasion of a lavish outpouring of graces for those who would come to adore". <br /><br />"The Fathers of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar (Picpus Fathers), founded in 1800, adopted the same sobriety with regard to exposition; adoration was made, habitually, before the closed tabernacle, with reference to the humble, hidden life of Our Lord at Nazareth". <br /><br />"Only with Saint Peter Julian Eymard did prolonged, even perpetual, exposition become the normative practise, and this by the concession of a rare and precious privilege to the Congregation of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Exposition in the churches entrusted to the Blessed Sacrament Fathers was a lavish display of homage to the King of Kings, enthroned in the monstrance on an awe-inspiring and lofty throne".<br /><br />"The multiplication of chapels of perpetual adoration -- in themselves praiseworthy and holy endeavours -- has led, in far too many places, to a loss of "Eucharistic amazement" and of awe in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed. Exposition is taken for granted. Instead of a precious privilege calling for a sacrificial investment of our resources -- lovely clean white altar linens, including a special corporal under the monstrance; the illumination of multiple burning candles (six, twelve, or fourteen!); flowers, the humble offering of the earth; incense, fragrant as it rises before the Most Holy -- it has become banal. Often there are no more than two burning candles. Sadly, I have seen altars with no more than cheap paraffin votive lights burning in plastic jars. I have even seen exposition with no lighted candles, no flowers . . . and, worst of all, no one watching in adoration". <br /><br />"It must be said, straightway, that such negligence is not the result of economic penury. It is the result of the decline in reverence for the Most Blessed Sacrament that began over forty years ago, a decline manifested and precipitated by:<br /><br />• the reduction of the Eucharistic Fast to the point of it becoming, in practise, non-existent;<br />• the demolition of the Communion rail and opening of the sanctuary to all and sundry;<br />• the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice facing the people;<br />• the introduction of Holy Communion in the hand;<br />• the most unfortunate and universally abused authorization for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion;<br />• the disappearance of the genuflexion and of an "adoring silence" in church.<br /><br />The promotion of perpetual adoration and of frequent exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament must go hand-in-hand with an ongoing mystagogical catechesis on the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist and by:<br /><br />• the retrieval of the Eucharistic Fast and frequent Confession;<br />• the reclaiming of the sanctuary for the priest and sacred ministers alone;<br />• the restoration of the Communion rail;<br />• the universal abrogation of Holy Communion in the hand;<br />• the abrogation of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion in all but circumstances of extremely critical need, such as persecution, imprisonment, or the total lack of priests and deacons.<br />• the restoration of the genuflection and of an "adoring silence" in church". <br /><br />http://vultus.stblogs.org/2012/06/thank-you-father-blake.html<br />Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Versterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128928800453615354noreply@blogger.com