4/5/2021
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| Giotto, "Essau" |
’29’s first concern: Bread and wine
It begins by addressing the concern that what constitutes the matter of the Sacrament, that is the bread and the wine, “be most carefully preserved in its substance.”
It refers to Canon 815 of the ’17 CIC that excludes the “danger of corruption” in the substance of matter used, and that the bread and wine used be “pure wheat bread” and “natural wine of the grape.”
If the bread or wine cannot “according to common estimation” be said to be pure wheat or natural wine of the great because of the addition, admixture or replacement of other substances, then it cannot be valid matter.
The use of dubiously constituted matter is excluded as “criminal” since the addition of any notable quantity of any other substance to the wheat or wine exposes the MBS to the danger of nullity.
It indicates the thorough acquaintance with five particular recently-issued SRC decrees related to question of the integrity of the matter. It goes on to cite the parts of two of the those decrees that more closely concern the matter at hand:
In 1887, SRC addressed a question concerning the use of remedies for diluted wine or wine that had changed so as to become very weak or in danger or corruption.
