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The traditional custom of covering the crosses and images in churches during Holy Week

is possible today to rescue, even in the ordinary way the Roman liturgy, the ancient custom of covering the crosses and images of churches? This is certainly a question that many people linked to the liturgy and parish priests eager to do these days before Holy Week. On the site http://www.portal.ecclesia.pt/ find a very straightforward answer, provided by the National Secretariat for Liturgy of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference:

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Q: I receive an orientation , as the custom of covering the images of the churches in time of Lent. When we cover: At the beginning of Lent, or only at the beginning of Holy Week, ie, on Palm Sunday? And when you discover: Before concluding the washing of feet, on Thursday Santa, or the end of the celebration of the Adoration of the Cross on Good Friday?

Answer: Before the liturgical reforms of Vatican II was required to cover, with purple veils, crosses and all images displayed to the church service. In the Roman Missal of S. Pius V, after the Mass on Saturday preceding the Sunday of the Passion (now Fifth Sunday of Lent), had this caption: "First Vespers, cover up their crosses and pictures which are in the church. The crosses remain covered until the end of the worship of the Cross on Good Friday, and Images to the Hymn of the Angels (Glory to God in Heaven) on Holy Saturday. " We see that a custom was linked to two last weeks of Lent, through which it wanted to focus the attention of the faithful in the mystery of the Lord's Passion. All that could divert it, as were the images of saints, is covered. It was this custom? Certainly the beginnings of the second millennium or the end of the primeiro.E who say the current liturgical norms? A heading inserted in the Roman Missal of Paul VI, after Mass Saturday prior to the Fifth Sunday of Lent, says: "The custom of covering the crosses and images of the churches may be kept, as the opinion of the Episcopal Conference. The crosses remain covered until the end of the celebration of the Lord's Passion, Friday - Good Friday; images, until the beginning of the Easter Vigil (Roman Missal current [edition of the altar], p. 206.A large difference between the two lines of Missals (Trent and Vatican II) is as follows: the first cover and Crosses images was required (to cover the second ..."); ceased to be ("can save the custom cover ...). As our consultant can check for yourself by referring to the Roman Missal are you left several hypotheses: a) the images can cover or not cover, b) if the cover keeps the covers from the Saturday afternoon before the Fifth Sunday of Lent until the beginning of the Easter Vigil (not to before the washing of feet in the Mass of the Lord's Supper, nor until Friday). The line is clear: "... the images remain covered until the beginning of the Easter Vigil. " I hope I answered with clarity to your employee perguntas.Um SNL

blogger's note: In our parish, even celebrating the ordinary rite, has rescued many elements of the traditional liturgy of Holy Week, such as the custom of covering the images, the use of rattles in place of bells from the Gloria of the Mass "In Cena Domini" and umbel in the procession with the Blessed Sacrament to the altar of replacement, all within the hermeneutic of continuity advocated by Pope Benedict XVI.