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> To All:
> Within the families of Eastern Christianity, despite many local
> cultic variant practices, there is a common time__ Great and Holy
> Thursday__ set aside for the liturgical preparation ( under the
> leadership
> of the regional Patriarch, Metropolitan, Exarch, or other such
> plenipotentiary) of the Myrrh to be used and dispensed to the local
> communities for next year. Is there a common litrugical time for this
> preparation in the Latin West?
To the best of my knowledge, there is no liturgical use of myrrh in the
western Church. The Holy Chrism is prepared on Holy (= Maundy)
Thursday, at the Chrism Mass, when the bishop blesses olive oil and
mixes it with balsam.
Oriens.
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