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[spyridon]

" Now if we would burn every single Smactron, I think we would run out at some point..."

and yes we do go thru several smactrons a year(probally a hundred)in fact the carpet under where the Holy Body and Blood of Christ is given from the Priest to the Communicant ,also must be properly disposed of, at our church there has been over 20 times where the carpet has had to been cut out and replaced by a professional carpet person, sometimes just a piece the size of a quarter is cut out and replaced......and then the piece is put in its proper burial of earth.......it gets spilled at times with sick children,freightened children and the infirm either in wheel chairs or mentally handicapped.....................

[romiosini]

" Now if we would burn every single Smactron, I think we would run out at some point..."

and yes we do go thru several smactrons a year(probally a hundred)in fact the carpet under where the Holy Body and Blood of Christ is given from the Priest to the Communicant ,also must be properly disposed of, at our church there has been over 20 times where the carpet has had to been cut out and replaced by a professional carpet person, sometimes just a piece the size of a quarter is cut out and replaced......and then the piece is put in its proper burial of earth.......it gets spilled at times with sick children,freightened children and the infirm either in wheel chairs or mentally handicapped.....................

At my local Athonite Monastery of the Theotokos of Consolation, they put a plastic table cover cut up as the size of a rug so just in case Holy Communion does fall, the priest can lick and eat the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ and then the plastic can be burned.

[The Silent Acolyte]

Thanks for this answer. So its locations are pretty analogous to the purificator in the western rite: kept on the altar during the consecration and removed to the credence afterwards. For function, however, it has as its counterpart the (disused) housling cloth or the (disused) handled paten.