Ship of Fools: Blessing a Paschal Candle outside of Eastertide

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Posted by Anglican_Brat (# 12349) on :

If your Paschal Candle goes kaput and it's not anywhere near Easter, can you bless a new one outside of Eastertide?

Posted by Callan (# 525) on :

Don't see why not. If you can do an emergency consecration, if you are running out of the MBS, or a provisional baptism, if you are unsure of the status of the candidate, I can't see why you should manage without a Paschal Candle for six months.

IME, small MOTR rural churches will use a Paschal Candle discarded by a larger neighbour or cut costs by not having a new Candle every year. So if your 2016 Candle has passed out as a protest against the awfulness of 2016 and you have 2015's candle gathering dust in the sacristy pop it back in the stand and persevere with it until 2017, if you find the prospect of blessing a new one to be unpalatable.

Actually, if someone has a 2001 Candle, could they please pop it back in the stand and then intone "Take Back Time!" in the manner of David McCallum in 'Sapphire and Steel". With any luck we could then avert 9/11, the Iraq War, The financial crash, the death of Bowie, Brexit and Donald Trump's candidacy for the US Presidency. Desperate circumstances call for desperate measures.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Yeah, I reckon. Did I ever show you this from one of my outback (OZ) churches?

Posted by Lothlorien (# 4927) on :

I have had candles do that in Sydney, although not as thick as a Paschal candle.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

Even in Arizona I've never seen one quite that bad!

Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :

To say nothing about the condition of Fr Zappa at the time.

To be a bit serious: remove the old candle from the holder and place it in a clear glass bowl or something similar. Light it. Take your new candle and saying the Easter morning blessing prayer, light it from the flame of the old. Continuing the prayer, insert the nails into the new and then place it into the candle holder. Then extinguish the flame of the old.

Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on :

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Originally posted by Zappa:
Yeah, I reckon. Did I ever show you this from one of my outback (OZ) churches?

You can get treatment for that these days, but it can involve painful and embarrassing injections.

Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :

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Originally posted by Enoch:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Yeah, I reckon. Did I ever show you this from one of my outback (OZ) churches?
You can get treatment for that these days, but it can involve painful and embarrassing injections.

I was going to suggest little blue pills.

Posted by Arethosemyfeet (# 17047) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Yeah, I reckon. Did I ever show you this from one of my outback (OZ) churches?

It shouldn't surprise me that there are churches elsewhere in the world where being too hot is a risk likely to be encountered but somehow it still does. We're more likely to have an issue lighting candles because the matches and/or wicks have got damp, though this is a bigger problem with advent candles.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:

quote:
Originally posted by Enoch:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
Yeah, I reckon. Did I ever show you this from one of my outback (OZ) churches?
You can get treatment for that these days, but it can involve painful and embarrassing injections.
I was going to suggest little blue pills.

GeeD ... nice. [Overused]

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

The RCC doesn't require any blessing for a 2nd paschal candle- just put new one in the stand - same as if you have 2 churches and only 1 had an Easter Vigil.

Posted by Sacerdote (# 11627) on :

I'd sometimes wondered about this. Pls can you give chapter & verse?

Posted by Sacerdote (# 11627) on :

In fact there do sometimes seem to be multiple paschal candles in the Vatican at Eastertide - are we to suppose they've all been blessed at Easter Vigils? Or not?

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

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Originally posted by Sacerdote:
I'd sometimes wondered about this. Pls can you give chapter & verse?

Not quite what I said earlier this envisages a private blessing.

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