3/2/2021
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| Simone Martini, "St. Andrew" |
I who was lost and lonely,
Believing life was only,
A bitter tragic joke have found with you,
The meaning of existence, Oh, my love!
Now. The sentiment fits as perfectly to the rhythm as its metaphysics suddenly surprises. Can finding love really amount to the discovery of the meaning of existence? I’ll defy anybody to say me nay. It’s a simple verse from a simple love song which can be added as yet another exhibit in demonstration that even a glancing blow can draw blood.
Back to analyzing these GIRM paragraphs:
We’ve established the GIRM’s initial description of the tabernacle. We’ve also indicated the sources from which the GIRM receives its information. This, we’ve done by looking at 314.
GIRM 315 refers to the positioning of the tabernacle in relation to the altar. It describes how it is “more appropriate as a sign” that the tabernacle be absent from the altar. It then subsequently describes alternative preferable locations for the tabernacle elsewhere in the sanctuary or some other suitable chapel.
It may be beyond our scope to trace the development of the appropriateness of the signification of the tabernacle’s position relative to the altar. Here, for now anyway, we’re making sure we’ve got a basic sense for what the Church says about the matter.
