A Topic of Moral Theology

Altar cloths, candles, chalice and paten

What the Missal requires; the composition of candles

In the index as Candles · Chalice · Chasuble · Sacred utensils for Mass · Sacred vessels · Sacred vestments · Alb · Altar · Corporal · Exsecration · Pall · The first washing of corporals and purificators · Three altar cloths · A purificator · Adornment · Adornment of women · Blessing · Celebration of Mass · Cincture · Maniple · Mass · The paten · A missal with a cushion or small bookstand · A schedule of founded Masses

In the manuals

A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries

Vol. II, Bk. V, Pt. II, Chapter VI. Requisites for Saying Mass, nn. 1 & 2 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.

Vol. II, Treatise On the Eucharist, Second Part. On the Euchar…, Ch. V, Article I. On the Requisites for Mass, n. 391 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. IV, Sect. II, Ch. III, Article III. On Sacred Furnishings, nn. 297, 298, 299, 300 & 301 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. III, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Most Holy…, Section B: On the Eucharis…, Second Part: On the Precep…, Appendix: On the Rites, Ceremonies, and Other Precepts to Be Observed in the Celebration and Dispensation of the Eucharist, n. 389 (53 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Requisites for Saying Mass — Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)