This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XT. PONTIFICAL MASS AT THE THRONE. ARTICLE I. PREPARATIONS. 67 I. At the High Altar1. 1. Six wax candles, lighted, and if the Ordinary is cele brant, a seventh2. 2. The altar should be richly ornamented with flowers, and reliquaries may be placed between the candlesticks. 3. Antependium of the same color as the vestments3. 4. The Canon cards are removed. II. At the Altar of the Blessed Saqrament. 1. Six wax candles, lighted. 2. Kneeling-desk, draped in green. (Glossary.) 1 "Si in altari, in quo celebrandum erit, Ss. Sacramentum asservatur, ab eo in aliud transferendum est, ne propterea ritus et ordo caeremoniarum, qui in hujusmodi Missa servandus est, turbetur." (Caer. Ep. I, c. 12, n. 8.) 2 "Candelabrum septimum tantum apponitur in missa solemni non autem in missa defunctorum, neque in vesperis; et solummodo adhibetur celebrante Episcopo loci ordinario, non vero celebrante Episcopo extraneo, neque administratore, neque suflraganeo, neque abbate, neque quibuscumque praelatis Episcopo inferioribus celebrantibus." (De Herdt, Prax. Pont., I, 93.) -- "Crux ante altius candelabrum in medio cereorum positum locabitur." (Caer. Ep. I, c. 12, n. 12.) 3 "Antipendium apponendum est ad quodcumque Altare, nisi ipsa structura Altaris, lapidea, vel lignea, decore ornata sit metallo, vel lapide pretioso, vel figuris, aut per modum tumbae sit confecta. Attamen in solemnioribus festivitatibus etiam pro hujusmodi Altari requiritur, aut saltern convenit pallii pretiosioris ornatus." (Van der Stappen, III, Q. 44.) (67) III. On the Credence at the Epistle Side. 1. The chalice with purificator, paten, host and pall, burse with corporal, covered with the subdeacon's humeral veil. The chalice veil is placed not over the chalice but on the credence1. 2....

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