Saturday, 5 May 2012
Thurible as asset in close protection
Richard Collins picked up on my post about the clinking of chains and a possible duel and has written sagely on Techniques for Thurible Management. I particularly liked the video that he found, illustrating the use of the thurible as part of security management. Interestingly, it was a novus ordo style one chain thurible. I think that there would be further possibilities with a proper traditional four chain thurible. Perhaps some young clerics could be sent off by Mgr Marini for training in liturgical close protection.
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Those one chain things are HORRIBLE. Along the 'clanking business' there seem to be two schools of thought. One school thinks it's gauche to have all that unnecessary noise. The other school figures anything to do with fire deserves as much hoopla as possible.
My husband recalls that, as a child the thurible would not light. Fully vested, Fr decided he would fix this, and popped in paper and charcoal and then swung the thurible around his head round and round to get air going in. The thurible came off it's chains and went out the window!
Thank you Father.I think you are being over generous using the word "sagely".
Personally, I prefer the sound of the Eastern thurible with the 12 bells - one for each apostle... except the 12th bell is silent, the Judas bell.
Down in adoration falling...
Wait, I thought the smaller things (as in the video) were censers and thurbiles are the big ones hanging from the ceiling. No?
That scene has more to do with Daoism than the Rule of St Benedict. And why should there be a thurible in the scriptorium? Anything to do with the censer librorum?
Dubitor - no, the handheld is also called a thurible. Censer is a less common word for it.
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