On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Bella Millett wrote:
> >
> 19-36 on this sermon). As I remember, most monastic customaries have
> something on spiders and their webs in the section on the care and
> maintenance of the church (they tended to cause theological problems by
> getting into the consecrated communion wine).
> Bella Millett
Was the Consecrated Species reserved under both kinds in medieval
practice? Today's rubrics call for complete consumption of the
consecrated wine, precisely because it cannot be readily preserved. I
would be suprised if medieval practice including reservation of the
Precious Blood, but would be eager to be enlightened on this.
I could, however, imagine that spiders building webs inside an improperly
secured tabernacle could be perceived as just as problematic even only the
Consecrated Host was reserved there--is this what the treatises on upkeep
of churches you refer to had in mind?
Dennis Martin
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