3/15/2021
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| Lorenzetti, "Lamentation" |
SRC, in Nullo 4, concludes this paragraph on the tabernacle’s security with its own assessment of the more recently mentioned constructions of the tabernacles followed by three admonitions. In SRC’s assessment, the stronger tabernacles are “very efficacious” for safeguarding the MBS. It recommends these stronger tabernacles as part of the construction of church’s to be built stopping short of requiring them as long as the ordinary tabernacles are “admittedly adequate” for the secure custody of the MBS. Next it exhorts the bishop to ensure that tabernacles in their dioceses are necessarily solid and do preclude “every danger of sacrilegious profanation.” Lastly, SRC, in view of the possibility that there be any tabernacles that do not guarantee the absence of every such danger, it declares that they be removed and that their removal be “with the utmost severity.”
Nullo 5
Having addressed the tabernacle itself SRC now moves to the more general and perhaps more complicated question of what constitutes “careful custody.” Under this heading it offers six considerations:
- necessity of ordinary & extraordinary watchfulness;
- custodian immediately responsible;
- others who frequent the church;
- night watch;
- recourse to safer security;
- decor of the sacred vessels.
Nullo 5 reminds that the watchfulness is prescribed by the law itself in addition to the strength of the tabernacle construction and its locking mechanism. This watchfulness is to be “continually maintained” and is to include warnings that are both ordinary and extraordinary which it will consider next.
