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If I had to build a church or restructure one, there are some traditional things that I would be sure to include in the sacristy.
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Quis est textus auctor?
That is the classic prayer priests and other ministers, even servers, would say as part of their vesting process. Vesting in the Roman way always starts with washing hands.
That prayer is included in the excellent iPieta app, as the first of several vesting prayers. The English translation included:
Then there follows in turn prayers for each vestment: Amice, Alb, Cincture, Maniple, Stole, Chasuble, and Dalmatic. The prayers provide a bit of catechesis about each item. For example, the Amice prayer makes clear that it serves as a spiritual armor:
Are vesting prayers deprecated in the Novus Ordo rite, or “is it a custom more honor’d in the breach than in the observance?”
Out of curiosity…what is the virtue of separate towels ante/post missam?
Gee if father has to say all of those prayers there won’t be time for the verbal party which takes place in the sacristy before all Masses.
The wonderful stuff we converts in Lutheran lands have never seen. A pre and post Mass towel rack with engraved prayers! Le sigh.
mburn16, I’m thinking because there might still remain fragments of the hosts on the priests hands, so perhaps the post missam towels have to be washed with the other altar linens?
JonPatrick: You have grasped the logic of it.
Fr. Z,
Thanks so much for posting this. Does anyone know of a company that still makes these?
I looked up this old expired patent and did a forward search on it. There were no citations to it, and no improvement patents over it. I did see that the inventor, Henry Mertel, has several patents related to tabernacle safes and one related to a gate for an altar rail.