"…out of reverence towards this Sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this Sacrament. Hence, it is not lawful for anyone else to touch it except from necessity, for instance, if it were to fall upon the ground, or else in some other case of urgency."
St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae, IIIa Q82 a3 c
This quote is cited in an official statement of the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.
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