#rubrics

There is no job where you have to go “above and beyond” to get paid. Usually you get a bonus or a raise if you go “above and beyond”. At least in theory. 

Calling the Four Winds

For years now I’ve wanted to try and create some sort of ritual that would call the rain to me. After reading a paper by Jorgensen, which discusses the ways in which mythology symbolism can be layered into ritual/heka, I finally reached a point where I felt like I could finally wrap my mind around what such a ritual would entail. This post is basically about said ritual. If you’re not interested…

I have recently finished a commission for The Fractal Blades Kill Team. Those of you who know me well will be aware that I have an affection for the Thousand Sons and to be able to paint some in my work time was a real pleasure. The five terminators were a great deal of fun and it reminds me that I really should make time to finish off the eighty or so rubric marines and sorcerers I have kicking…

“Therefore, only the corporal and the pall came in direct contact with the Most Blessed Sacrament, so only these were blessed/consecrated. It did not make sense to bless or consecrate purificators, since they did not share this same finality.

Knowledge of this is helpful for any priest to handle the Blessed Sacrament properly and reverently now. Forgetting these things is what, in part, has led to the aberrations that we regularly see now — such as the deplorable practice of using soaked purificators to “purify”. In parishes where Holy Communion is distributed under both kinds in the modern rite, a clean purificator should be used for the purifications, so that the minister can indeed be morally certain that he has removed all trace of the Precious Blood. This moral certainty, as Fr. Finigan wrote about, is practically guaranteed by the old rubrics, whereas, as I have written, the new are so vague that one has to think things through much more to work out a system that affords the same certitude. And more than our own sense of certitude, the proper respect due to Christ, truly present in the Holy Eucharist.

Fortunately, the new rubrics do contain this important proviso, found in GIRM # 42, which teaches us effectively that where there are lacunae, we should look to what was done before:

Attention must therefore be paid to what is determined by this General Instruction and by the traditional practice of the Roman Rite and to what serves the common spiritual good of the People of God, rather than private inclination or arbitrary choice.