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[QUOTE="timr, post: 1172538, member: 5237"] I shy away from topics which show even the slightest tendency to become contentious. Usually. But I can speak from personal experience on the single detail of how much incense goes into the botafumeiro. I am a Catholic priest and always concelebrate at the pilgrim Mass when I reach Santiago. The number of concelebrants (these are priests who participate equally with the main celebrant - often a visiting bishop or else the Dean of the cathedral) varies considerably. Sometimes there are just two or three, sometimes 20. I have concelebrated at least six or eight times when the botafumeiro has been used. On three of four times (I don't keep records) I have been one of those invited to add incense to the botafumeiro before it is swung. My walking-companion-nephew thought this was 'hypercool'. These are usually the main celebrant and two others. The amount of incense used is about 3 teaspoons full, at most 6. Not 'pounds'. It is about the same amount that would be used at a parish church in UK for a funeral for instance. The whole thing takes less then ten minutes. A little goes a long way. Looking back on a well known online mail order site i can see that I bought 500g of high quality liturgical incense in 2019 for £21.58. That is 4.3 pence for a gram (That is about 5 cents of a Euro). You would imagine there would be a discount for bulk purchase. Whatever the cost of 'flying' the botafumeiro is, the cost of incense is quite insignificant. The price today is below £20 for 500g from the makers [URL]https://www.prinknashabbey.org/prinknash-incense[/URL] but if you buy direct, you will have to add in postage! [/QUOTE]
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