5/19/2021
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| Duccio, "Andrew" |
RS 136 speaks of the Ordinary’s duty to promote Eucharistic adoration with the people participating. It mentions two types of places: one where such devotion is already strong and another where there is almost a total lack of regard for the MBS.
RS 137 indicates the norms of the liturgical books as prescriptive of how Exposition is to be carried out. We have looked at these. It recommends the praying of the Holy Rosary before the MBS either reserved or exposed, indicating that it is “not to be excluded.” In further describing the prayer before the MBS it recommends contemplative prayer and that prayer which is aided by the reading of Scripture.
RS 138 speaks of the urgency of arranging at fixed times the presence always of at least some of the faithful. This is to avoid even for the briefest space of time the MBS exposed ever being left unattended. RS later indicates that any action to the contrary whereby the MBS exposed is left unattended constitutes a grave abuse.
This, I’ve found, is a problem where there are prolonged periods of exposition in parishes. It gives rise to the faithful reposing the MBS by themselves, contrary to the norms of the liturgical books, to say nothing of the devastating effect such abandonment of the safeguarding of the MBS has on pastor and the parish. It’s staggering to consider, when the MBS exposed is left unattended, what abuse it is subject to, entirely beneath the consideration of precisely the one who is entrusted with its safekeeping.
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