1. Immediately after Mass there takes place the solemn translation and reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, which is kept in a ciborium for Holy Communion the next day.
2. A suitable place for the solemn reservation will be prepared in a chapel or on an altar in the church, as is prescribed by the Roman Missal, and it will be adorned as worthily as possible, with lights and flowers, but without relics and images of Saints. In conformity with the decrees of the Sacred Congregation of Rites about avoiding or removing abuses in preparing this altar of Repose, an austerity in keeping with the liturgy of these days is strongly recommended.
3. The translation and reservation of the Blessed Sacrament takes place as follows :
The torches are lit, and the procession forms up in the usual way.
If possible a second fully vested subdeacon carries the cross; otherwise a cleric [server] does so.
The celebrant, standing at the foot of the altar, puts incense in two thuribles without a blessing [one thurible in the simple rite]. Then, kneeling, he censes the Blessed Sacrament three times.
He then puts on a white humeral veil, goes up the altar steps in the middle, genuflects, and receives standing the ciborium from the deacon : the latter covers it with the ends of the humeral veil.
The celebrant then comes down from the altar and goes forward under a canopy : two thurifers [or one server] cense the Blessed Sacrament continuously until the altar of Repose is reached.
The sacred ministers [or the servers] walk on each side of the celebrant.
The Pange Lingua is NOT to begin until the celebrant has turned toward the congregation and begins to move.
During the procession the hymn Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium is sung until the verse Tantum ergo exclusive; if necessary, the hymn is repeated from the second verse. If the procession is very long, other hymns, psalms or canticles may be sung.
4. When the altar of Repose is reached, the celebrant (helped by the deacon if necessary) puts down the ciborium on the altar. He then kneels, puts incense in the thurible and censes the Blessed Sacrament: meanwhile the Tantum ergo is sung.
Then the deacon [or the celebrant himself] puts the ciborium into the tabernacle or casket.
5. All then kneel and silently adore the Blessed Sacrament for a little while. When the sign is given, the celebrant and the sacred ministers [and the servers] rise, genuflect on both knees and bow, and then return to the sacristy, where the celebrant and the sacred ministers take off their white vestments. The celebrant and the deacon put on purple stoles.
6. If several ciboria need to be transferred, the same celebrant (or another priest or deacon, vested in a surplice, a white stole and a white humeral veil) carries them to the altar of Repose before the stripping of the altars is begun. He should do this in a simple way i. e. with two acolytes [servers] carrying lighted candles and another holding the ombrellino.
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