Friday, July 12, 2013
Chalice
Well, well. If I read this corrrectly, the Pope went to an island where many people died in shipwreck trying to get to the mainland of Europe, and a better life. And...the chalice was made of wood from a wrecked ship. Didn't the fussy bishops say that we had to use gold chalices for the Precious Blood of Jesus? I am going to do a home mass with Waterford Crystal as the chalice. That should work, no?
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Probably ok as long as you use the little wafers that Jesus
ReplyDeleteused. We need to be as close as possible to biblical records (if it suits
our agenda).
"IV Materials and Sjweimens It has been asserted that in the apostolic age chalices of wood were in use but for this assertion there is no early authority Glass was no doubt in use from a very early date Pojie Zephyrinus cir 202 ordered the material to be glass and St Jerome speaks of a bishop of Toulouse who bore the Lord's body in a wicker canister and his blood in glass Tertullian also alludes to the latter material Wooden chalices were in use until the 9th century
ReplyDeleteSt Boniface said when permitting their use Once golden priests used wooden chalices now on the contrary wooden priests use golden chalices
The Council of Rheims in 226 forbade glass and in 883 the use of wood tin glass and copper Pope Leo IV in 847 prohibited wood or glass" - from Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 11
Seems like Waterford would be in the early traditions.
Make sure its the real Waterford and not some knock-off. Check the bottom of the Waterford Crystal for a Waterford marking!
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