3/5/2021
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| Simone Martini, "Christ Discovered" |
CIC 934-944
An overview of these eleven canons shows they generally cover, as the title of the section indicates, two topics: reservation of the MBS (934-939); veneration of the MBS (940-444). While the scope of our work primarily concerns the first topic, reservation, the Church relates the additional matter of veneration at the same time. This joint presentation allows us to see proper veneration of the MBS in light of proper safekeeping and vice versa. We keep safe what we venerate. We venerate what we keep safe.
This work, will limit itself to the basics of the prescriptions for MBS security, emphasizing the details concerning reservation. The practical aspects of MBS veneration that concern us we will limit to those that touch most directly the safe-handling and security.
CIC 934 has two paragraphs, the first indicating the types of places where MBS reservation may take place, the second indicates that the place must also have a person responsible for its custody.
The first paragraph, on the place, is also divided in two: 1) places where MBS reservation is obligatory; 2) places where it is permitted by the local ordinary. Obligatory reservation is limited to three types of churches: the Cathedral church, every parish church and every church attached to the house of a religious institute or society of apostolic life.
