Q: Thank you for your blog, I’ve learned a lot from reading it.
My pastor has recently gotten a thabor/tabor (monstrance stand) to use during adoration. I don’t see any guidance for the use of these so I think it’s alright. Normally during adoration we put a corporal under the monstrance but this thabor takes up 90% of the corporal, does it still make sense to put a corporal under the thabor, and is it required to put a corporal under a thabor when it’s used in adoration? Second do we need a second smaller corporal for the top of the thabor since that is now where the monstrance is?
Lastly, do you know any guidance for the use of thabor?
Thanks for your time
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A: Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass mentions the optional use of a throne for a monstrance twice. No. 93 says that a cloth for the monstrance is placed on the altar, and it does not alter that instruction when it mentions the throne. No. 94 says the monstrance may be set on a throne to begin adoration at the conclusion of Mass.
In my view, the throne relates more to the monstrance than to the altar, so the corporal remains under both those objects.
I’ve written a commentary on that liturgical book, Eucharistic Reservation.