5/7/2021
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| Duccio, "Madonna & Child with Angels" |
Let’s stick with EM, but back up to EM 60 and cover its whole section on exposition of the MBS. It has six sections.
—No Mass before the MBS exposed
—How to Expose the MBS
—Solemn Annual Exposition
—Prolonged Exposition
—Interrupting Exposition
—Shorter Periods of Exposition
This section, in EM 60, opens with a description of Exposition, indicating its purpose and recommending its use. It indicates that Exposition stimulates the awareness on the part of the faithful of the Real Presence. It describes Exposition also as an invitation to Communion with Him that encourages due worship to the Lord. It cautions that care should be taken of the relation between Exposition and the Mass. It describes how a time of exposition can begin with the ending of Mass. It also refers to “the desire of Christ in instituting the Eucharist,” citing Pius X’s “Decree on Frequent & Daily Reception of Holy Communion.”
Let’s look at that for a moment (making this excursus #4—#3 being going to EM 60-66, #2 being EM 63, #1 being EOM, then we’ll get back to RS).
Pius X, in 1905, promoted Daily Communion with “Sacrosancta Tridentina Synodus.” We can examine that whole document later. For now, EM refers to the part of it which describes the desire of Christ in instituting the Eucharist. Pius X, describes what Christ was getting at with leaving us the MBS: 1) daily nourishment; 2) resistance, cleansing, avoidance of sin.
Image: Duccio, “Madonna & Child with Angels”
