3/29/21
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Removing the MBS
These remote churches also include those on “desert mountains and wide country spaces.” There are churches, then, where it is impossible to reserve the MBS.
SRC adds a helpful clarification regarding which would be more tolerable: deprivation of the means of Eucharistic adoration or its exposure to probable profanation. “Sometimes even if a notable part of the faithful” be without the privilege of access to this particular expression of Eucharistic piety, still deprivation of the means of adoration is to be preferred to the risk of probable profanation.
SRC authorizes by means of the instruction the Bishops to revoke the faculty of reserving the MBS from those churches when they perceive grave abuses or inadequate safeguarding of the MBS.
Conclusion
There are three paragraphs is conclusion. These include: 1) a recapitulation of the purpose of the instriction; 2) a citation of the approval of the SRC and the Pope’s subsequent ratification and confirmation; 3) the date of the instruction—the Feast of the Ascension, 1938.
SRC’s summary mentions ordinaries and parish priests particularly as guardians of the MBS. In less than twenty-five words the purpose of SRC’s regulation and cautions concerning reservation of the MBS is: “To root out abuses, if any such have crept in, or to guard against them, if they have not.”
