What is a Monstrance?
We asked these young adults if they know what a ‘monstrance’ is — do you? Hint: it’s not a monster.
Video Transcript
Randy: Monstrance.
Francois: I have never seen this word in my life.
Channing” Sounds like monster.
Randy: Callin’ Cotton.
Robert: Call Cotton.
Rachel M: Sounds like monster…in a trance.
Robert: Fifteen seconds.
Randy: Fifteen seconds. We need to define— It’s ‘monstrance.’
Man on the phone: Super big monster.
Francois: The candles?
(Buzzer)
Channing: Is it the water? You know how they have…
(Buzzer)
Robert: Candles.
(Buzzer)
Gina: This is where the Eucharist is.
Tommy: No, I think it is. It’s like the big thing—
Katie: Yeah.
Tommy: …with the spiky edges.
Katie: Yeah, for adoration.
Tommy: For adoration, yeah.
Katie: Yeah.
(Ding)
Gina: Consecrated Eucharist.
(Ding)
Grotto: Monstrance: the ornate receptacle in which a consecrated host is placed so that Jesus in the form on bread can be adored.
Natural and Francois: Ohhh!
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