>> Rev& Dear Father V: Belated Boxing Day greetings.Please don't ever feel
like an 'ignoramus'. You cannnot know ,let alone incorporate into your
professional life ,things you were never told of.                      
                                                                       
 The old book "Ritual Notes' will answer some of your questions about
the oils and I also recommend the old 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia (New
Advent version) which is free on the Web. All these things are spelled
out in some detail and generally except for the business about the
Papacy being infallible (ahem!) and universal Ordinary(please!) what
they say is 99% correct.                                               
                                           There are 3 services that
only a Bishop (of any rank) can perform. One is the blessing of the
Oils on Maundy Thursday (at the Chrism Mass), the ordination of
bishops, priests and deacons (or if we are traditional-making Deacons,
ordaining Priests and consecrating Bishops). They are also (by
tradition) the only one who can consecrate Church buildings and bless
bells. Priests (with Holy Oil) can confirm /chrismate people (and often
do). Blessings. GDVW+                                                  
                                                                       
                               I wasn't familiar with the term either. 
8-) We learn something new
>> every
> day.
>> Charles+
>
> JVDB:  Good Father.  This sentence meant more to me than anything else you
> said.  I often feel like a total ignoramus on this list...
>
> BTW, would one of the more learned fathers care to explain the three
> different oils used in the church, their origin and reasons, etc?  I
> believe
> that the oils are blessed by the Bishop at an anual service in which the
> priests all renew their ordination vows...or am I wrong?  I think that's a
> really neat idea...we renew our baptismal vows at the Holy Saturday Vigil
> every year...this coming year I will be using the asperges for the first
> time, if I can lay my hands on a holy water pot and sprinkler before
> then...
>
> Do y'all do the service mention above?  I've never heard of it in the
> REC...maybe in the mid-west...Dr. D.+?
>
> Fr. Vanderbijl
>
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