[NYer]

Here's an opportunity to submit all those questions you wanted to ask but were afraid to and, hopefully, get answers.

Suggestion: let's pool our resources, compile a list and submit them one at a time. Then we can monitor the answers to determine whether or not our questions are being addressed.

So, can a priest celebrate with a glass chalice?

In my parish, the pastor consecrates the wine using a gold chalice. There is also a glass pitcher and two glass goblets for distribution of the Precious Blood.

[xzins]

If a stone goblet is ok, shouldn't a glass goblet be ok, since glass is made (mostly) from quartz sand, a silicate?

[american colleen]

My parish priest uses a "pottery barn" type of chalice with the tree of life decoration on it. OTOH, the retired priest in residence (and any visiting priest saying Mass) uses a gold (leaf?) chalice.

I struggle with wondering somehow, if things like this are silly and not worth the time spent wondering or reading or writing about them, especially since norms seem so broadly written that there is no clear cut definitive answer (or room for YOPI) - as is the case with Tabernacle location or altar crucifix placement. And what if my parish priest was given the pottery chalice by someone very dear to him? Who am I? Does God really care?

On the other hand... where do the little "sort of" disobedience things stop?

So this is where I put my fingers in my ears, chant "la-la-la-la I can't hear you" real loudly and jump up and down. ;-)

[Hermann the Cherusker]

My parish doesn't disobey liturgical law by distributing the Precious Blood at sunday Mass. And the Priest uses gold chalices.

I'm tired of all this "latitude" and "options".

[Salvation]

Maybe in an emergency??

I thought it was interesting that even in the days of persecution that metal vessels were chosen!

[Salvation]

Quite interesting that today's first reading pertains to the Church as the Household of God!

Reading I
1 Tm 3:14-16

Beloved:
I am writing you,
although I hope to visit you soon.
But if I should be delayed,
you should know how to behave in the household of God,
which is the Church of the living God,
the pillar and foundation of truth.
Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion,

Who was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated in the spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed to the Gentiles,
believed in throughout the world,
taken up in glory.

[sockmonkey]

The local AmChurch in my town uses butt-ugly blue-purple glazed pottery chalices-just one more reason I prefer to drive 60 miles to Mass.

It bothers me when you know there are beautiful gold vessels and beautiful processional crosses that have been "retired" or put on Ebay to be replaced by something deemed to be more hip.