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Thursday, August 29, 2013

The More I Learn, the More Concern I Have For My Immortal Soul

I would have thought that if there was extra consecrated wine, you could just pour the Blood of Christ down the Sacrarium. And boy! I was WAY WAY WAY wrong. According to Jimmy Akins:


Sacraria are used for a variety of purposes, including these:
  1. To dispose of ashes from objects that have been blessed and then destroyed by fire
  2. To dispose of the water that has been used to wash the altar linens
  3. To dispose of water that has been used to dissolve small particles of the host
  4. To dispose of water that has been used to clean up places where the Precious Blood has spilled
It’s one thing to pour water into the sacrarium, even if that water has been used to dissolve the consecrated species. In that case, the appearances of bread and wine no longer remain, and so the Real Presence does not remain, either. It is another thing entirely to use it to throw away the consecrated species themselves.
According to the Code of Canon Law,
Canon 1367  A person who throws away the consecrated species or who takes them or retains them for a sacrilegious purpose incurs an automatic (latae sententiae) excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; if a cleric, he can be punished with another penalty including dismissal from the clerical state.

 Pouring the Precious Blood into a sacrarium counts as throwing away the consecrated species, and so it cannot be done.

Class dismissed.

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