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If you're an old school Catholic Latin mass rear facing alter old. Once the priest washed his hands he was not "allowed" or at least supposed to change that position of his thumb and index finger on either hand.
 
LMichaels said:
If you're an old school Catholic Latin mass rear facing alter old. Once the priest washed his hands he was not "allowed" or at least supposed to change that position of his thumb and index finger on either hand.
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Not quite right on that, the celebrant (priest saying the Mass) cannot open his fingers After the consecration until receiving his post communion ablutions, lest he drop any particle of the consecrated host. Once he has returned to the altar and the acolyte “washes his fingers” with wine and water (over the chalice) the possible particles will have been removed into the liquid in the chalice and he consumes it. Then, and only then, may the celebrant let his fingers separate.
The super glue analogy was actually how my father taught deacons how to say Mass when he was a bishop.
 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
Not quite right on that, the celebrant (priest saying the Mass) cannot open his fingers After the consecration until receiving his post communion ablutions, lest he drop any particle of the consecrated host. Once he has returned to the altar and the acolyte “washes his fingers” with wine and water (over the chalice) the possible particles will have been removed into the liquid in the chalice and he consumes it. Then, and only then, may the celebrant let his fingers separate.
The super glue analogy was actually how my father taught deacons how to say Mass when he was a bishop.
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It's going back a long way for me. I just recall this thing with the fingers.
 
Timothy F. Lewis said:
I spent a LOT of time on my knees at the foot of the altar!
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Me as well. Also received quite a few cracks on the back of the head and hands from nuns. Modern kids have nothing on us 50s kids :DThere was an old Gordon Lightfoot song (In My Fashion) with the line that has always stuck with me. "I have been down, I have touched the ground, saying prayers and touching wood" Something in that line rings so true to me
 
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