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Utrum liceat pluribus sacerdotibus concelebrantibus, ut quisque calicem quendam accipiat ante doxologiam finalem precis eucharisticae?

℟. Negative.

Elevatio hostiae et calicis non est quidem gestus, qui munus tantum exsequitur hostiam et calicem conspectui populi praebendi, ut ab omnibus videantur, sed ritualiter exprimit quod verbis a Sacerdote in doxologia finali Precis Eucharisticae dicitur.

Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani, ad n. 180, in Missa cum diacono explicanda, sic affirmat: « Ad doxologiam finalem Precis eucharisticae, stans ad latus sacerdotis, [diaconus] calicem elevatum tenet, dum sacerdos patenam cum hostia elevat, usquedum populus Amen acclamaverit ».

Reprobandus igitur est usus, quo omnes vel plures concelebrantes ad altare tempore doxologiae finalis proxime accedunt ut calices accipiant. Potius celebranti vel diacono vel uni concelebranti relinquendum est munus calicis elevandi.

Whether it is permitted for several concelebrating priests each to take up an individual chalice before the final doxology of the eucharistic prayer?

℟. In the negative.

The elevation of the host and chalice is not a gesture that performs the function only of showing the host and chalice to the people so that they can be seen by everyone, but rather it ritually expresses what is said by the Priest in the words in the final doxology of the Eucharistic Prayer.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, in n. 180, in Mass with a deacon, affirms: « At the final doxology of the eucharistic Prayer, standing at the side of the priest, [the deacon] holds the chalice elevated while the priest elevates the paten with the host until the people finishes acclaiming Amen ».

Thus, the practice in which all or several concelebrants approach the altar to take up chalices at the time of the final doxology is to be reprobated. Rather, the task of elevating the chalice should be left to the celebrant or the deacon or to one concelebrant.

Notitiae 46 (2009): 171chalice, concelebration, doxology, elevationPDF of Notitiae 46 (2009): 171