2/28/2021
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Staying with Guarding the MBS
Knowing how to safeguard the MBS becomes immediately urgent the moment you become a pastor or are assigned to a place where you are responsible for the reservation of the MBS.
A typical seminarian, upon his ordination to the priesthood frequently, although not always, receives an assignment as a vicar or an associate to a pastor. He’ll learn from that pastor the way the MBS is secured at that location. But what if the MBS is not properly secured? How will the young priest even know? Or will he presume it’s correctly secured and then perpetuate the bad practice going forward. Setting aside, not as unimportant but rather as not a part of this theme, the sensitive question of the means by which the junior priest brings the question of the insufficient security of the MBS to the senior priest, the junior priest—all priests—need to know the basics of MBS Security. A junior priest can glean “best practices” or at least “better practices” by observing and comparing how the MBS is secured in various parishes. But ultimately, he’ll need a standard according to which he’ll measure his assessments.
The church does in fact provide such a standard. Never mind that it’s little known. This work is intended to make it better known.
