Calyx velum
The chalice veil (from Latin velum "sail, cloth, cover") is a 50 × 50 cm large cloth that covers the chalice in the Roman Catholic Eucharist and in the Lutheran communion service until the offering is prepared and after the purification . Like other liturgical veils, it has the purpose of emphasizing the sacred in a decorative way and at the same time withdrawing it from direct view.
Current practice
In the Roman Catholic liturgy, the chalice is "appropriately covered with a velum". The chalice veil is usually of the same material and decor and in the liturgical day color as the carried on this service chasuble and can also style the same decorations, at the edge of a border or fringe wear or simply a cross as jewelry. But it is also permissible to always use a plain white chalice velum. Usually the chalice velum is lined with silk in a matching color.
The velum is placed on the chalice after the chalice , the paten with the large celebration host and the palla , so that it hangs down on four sides, followed by the bursa with the corporal . After the celebration of the Eucharist and the purification of the vessels, the veil is spread over the chalice again. During Holy Mass, the chalice covered with the chalice veil is ready on the sideboard and is brought to the altar by an altar when the offerings are being prepared . In the extraordinary form of the Roman rite , the priest carries the chalice with chalice veil when entering and places it on the altar, as was generally practiced until the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council .
history
The chalice veil in its present form came into use only since the 16th century, initially in Rome and Milan; in the Archdiocese of Cologne it was only introduced in 1651. Before that, the chalice and paten were brought to the altar without a cover or in a cloth ( linteum or mappula ad tegendum calicem "cloth to cover the chalice") or a sachet ( sacculus ) , where the cover was removed. The chalice has been used as an epistle in high mass since about the 13th century , in some places already at the kyrie eleison or at the glory of holy mass on the sideboard, covered until the offering was made and then brought to the altar with the covering during the sacrifice. Therefore, this forerunner of the chalice veil carried the name offertorium (from offerre "to offer, to sacrifice") according to old custom .
See also
literature
- Joseph Braun : The Liturgical Paraments in the Present and Past. A manual of paramentics. 2nd, improved edition. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924 (Reprographischer Reprint. Verlag Nova and Vetera, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-936741-07-7 ), pp. 213-215.
Individual evidence
- ^ Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference: Missale Romanum. Editio typica tertia 2002, Basic Order of the Roman Missal Book, preliminary publication for the German Missal Book (3rd edition) (PDF; 545 kB) (Arbeits aids No. 215), Bonn 2007, No. 118.
- ↑ Joseph Braun: The Liturgical Paraments in the present and past. 2nd, improved edition. Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924 (Reprographischer Reprint. Bonn 2005), pp. 213-215.