tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post4035487860971148164..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: THE ART AND DRUDGERY OF PROPERLY WASHING ALTAR LINENSFr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-34037386484293902642016-09-09T11:56:58.541-04:002016-09-09T11:56:58.541-04:00How long is an ample time to leave the linens to s...How long is an ample time to leave the linens to soak?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17639488958734532086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-58871699838368062492014-11-11T20:20:42.231-05:002014-11-11T20:20:42.231-05:00Does anyone give a flip? Yes. This is how it's...Does anyone give a flip? Yes. This is how it's done. This much care is taken with fabric goods at fine hotels and restaurants and with haut couture gowns. This much care used to be taken with all sorts of things in the homes of wealthy people with many servants. The fact that some people think it's silly doesn't negate that other people think it's beautiful, any more than the fact that use spaghetti from a jar negates all the rigamarole chefs go through to prepare and cook exotic ingredients. This is the altar for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, which is a miracle. You take special care with anything that touches it.Gail Finkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02117490028494416722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-54159976930181834102014-09-11T21:09:40.813-04:002014-09-11T21:09:40.813-04:00I don't see this as being "too much."...I don't see this as being "too much." This is all part of the system (I call it a system), which developed over many centuries (as a part of the growing and deepening appreciation of the Reality of the Real Presence) which considered every aspect of the handling of the Eucharist.<br /><br />I have written more than once about how it has never seemed right that we once exercised such care (Communion on the tongue, joined priests' fingers after Consecration and rinsing them after distribution, Communion patens for servers, dissolving dropped Hosts in water, etc) and now we have reverted back (way back--antiquarianism) to putting the Host into peoples' hands (but they now receive by communicating themselves with the other hand rather than bowing to the Host and picking it up with their tongue). There is no concern whatsoever for particles except for those which might remain on a priests' paten or in a ciborium when it is purified. <br /><br />As Fr. JBS mentioned earlier, we got away from using tabernacle, chalice and ciborium veils when we (apparently) stopped seeing the Eucharist as being so very special. I'm sorry---I still haven't gotten over this and I probably never will. This laxity of more recent times in handling the Eucharist is the post-conciliar change in liturgical practice that hurts me most of all. It is inexcusable.Joseph Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00036852763902493131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-35971216658528896582014-09-10T13:36:31.395-04:002014-09-10T13:36:31.395-04:00Oh no! He's been getting pointers from the Ma...Oh no! He's been getting pointers from the Marywood linen brigade.....Cotton Linen Blendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49233880214615024482014-09-10T11:42:48.057-04:002014-09-10T11:42:48.057-04:00So things are pretty dull at the priest's retr...So things are pretty dull at the priest's retreat, eh Father?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com