5/9/2021
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| Duccio, "Madonna & Child w. Ss. Augustine, Paul, Peter & Dominic" |
Today is the anniversary of my First Holy Communion. Eternal rest grant unto Msgr. William O’Donnell, O Lord. May he rest in peace.
Let’s get back to EM 60 which ended with a reference to Pius X. It’s reference was within the context of ensuring the proper understanding of why Jesus instituted the MBS. Specifically, the importance of avoiding what could obscure the nourishing, healing and sustaining purpose of the MBS. This, I suppose, is the result of promoting the MBS in such a way as to make it unapproachable, distasteful, only rarely ever to be experienced. EM 60 particularly refers in this regard to the decoration of the altar where exposition takes place.
In EM 61, exposition and the celebration of Holy Mass in the same area of the Church at the same time is forbidden. It explains that the spiritual communion to which exposition leads the faithful is already more perfectly present in the celebration of Holy Mass, further help towards this spiritual communion being unnecessary.
During more lengthy periods of exposition that extend throughout the day or over several days, the period is to be interrupted in favor of the celebration of Mass.
It addresses that there may be customs or concessions that have been made previously that are contrary to this norm. Particularly, for those faithful for whom the application of this norm may be upsetting, the Instruction encourages, at the direction of the local Ordinary, a time of catechesis in favor of the norm, as long as the time is not too long.
Image: Duccio, "Madonna & Child w. Ss. Augustine, Paul, Peter & Dominic"
