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During Mass, how do we know the hosts taken from the tabernacle are consecrated?
TL;DR
Robert Sungenis answers that hosts would not be placed in the tabernacle unless they had already been consecrated. He notes the tabernacle stores unused consecrated hosts, which is precisely why Catholics can go there and worship, because those hosts are still the Body of Christ.
A viewer asks how we can know that hosts distributed from the tabernacle during Mass are consecrated.
Answer
They would not be put in the tabernacle unless they were consecrated. The tabernacle stores unused consecrated hosts, which is precisely why we can go there and worship, because those hosts are still the Body of Christ. So that is the reason: what is in the tabernacle is there because it has already been consecrated.
Answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis