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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

LITURGY See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

Ordinary of the See also:

Mass. r. Introit, or as it is always called in the Sarum rite, " See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office," a See also:

PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp)

Psalm or See also:

PART

part of a Psalm sung at the entry of the See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest, or See also:

clergy and See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir. 2. See also:

KYRIE (in full kyrie eleison, or eleeson, Gr. Kvpte MEssvov; cf. Ps. cxxii. 3, Matt. xv. 22, &c., meaning " Lord, have mercy ")

Kyrie eleison, ninefold, and sometimes lengthily farsed representing an older, now obsolete, See also:

LITANY

litany. 3. Collect, i.e. the collect for the See also:

day. 4. Prophetic See also:

LECTION, LECTIONARY

lection, now obsolete, except on the Wednesday and Saturday Ember Days, See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday and See also:

EASTER

Easter Even, and Wednesday after See also:

FOURTH

fourth and See also:

SIXTH

sixth Sundays in See also:

LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")

Lent. 5. See also:

EPISTLE

Epistle. 796 6.

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GRADUAL (Med. Lat. gradualis, of or belonging to steps or degrees; gradus, step)

Gradual. A few verses from the See also:

Psalms, the shrunken See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of a whole Psalm. 7. Sequence A hymn now obsolete except on Feast of the Seven Dolours, Easter, See also:

PENTECOST

Pentecost, Corpus Christi and at Masses for the dead. 8. See also:

GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel. 9 Creed. to. Collect, now obsolete, though the unanswered invitation, " Let us pray," still survives. t I. See also:

OFFERTORY (from the ecclesiastical Lat. offertorium, Fr. offertoire, a place to which offerings were brought)

Offertory A See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse or verses from the Psalms sung at the offering of the elements. 12.

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SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

Secret. A See also:

prayer or prayers said at the conclusion of the Offertory. 13. Sursum Corda. " Lift up your See also:

HEARTS

hearts.' with following vesicles. 14. See also:

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

Preface. There are now ten proper or See also:

SPECIAL

special prefaces and one See also:

COMMON

common preface. In older missals they were extremely numerous, almost every See also:

SUNDAY

Sunday and See also:

HOLY

Holy-day having one assigned to it. Many of them were very beautiful. In older missals, Nos. 13, 14 and 15 were sometimes arranged not as the concluding part of the Ordinary, but as the opening part of the See also:

CANON

Canon of the mass.

15. Sanctus, or Tersanctus, or Triumphal Hymn, " Holy, Holy, Holy," &c., ending with the See also:

BENEDICTUS

Benedictus, " Blessed is he that cometh," &c. Canon of the Mass. t. See also:

INTRODUCTORY

Introductory prayer for See also:

ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance. Te igitur, &c. 2. Intercession for the living. Memento, Domine famulorum, &c. 3. See also:

COMMEMORATION

Commemoration of apostles and martyrs. Communicantes et memoriam, &c.

4. Prayer for acceptance and See also:

CONSECRATION (Lat. consecrallo, from con and sacrare, " to make sacred ")

consecration of offering. Haile igitur oblationem, &c. 5. See also:

RECITAL (from Lat. recitare, to read out, particularly of a public document)

Recital of words of institution. Qui pridie quam pateretur, &c. 6. See also:

OBLATION

Oblation. See also:

UNCLE

Uncle et memores, &c. 7. Invocation. A passage difficult of See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation, but apparently meant to be See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the Eastern Epiklesis or invocation of the Holy See also:

GHOST (a word common to the W. Teutonic languages; O.E. vest, Dutch, 'geest, Ger. Geist)

Supplices to rogamus, &c. 8. Intercession for the dead. Memento etiam, Domine, famulorum, &c. 9. See also:

Lord's Prayer, with a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short introduction and the expansion of the last See also:

PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition into a prayer known as the " Embolismus." ro. Fraction, i.e. breaking of the See also:

HOST

host into three parts, to symbolize the See also:

DEATH

death and See also:

PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion of See also:

Christ. 11. Commixture, i.e. placing a small portion of the consecrated See also:

BREAD

bread into the See also:

CHALICE (through a central O. Fr. form of the Lat. calix, calicis, cup)

chalice symbolizing the See also:

REUNION

reunion of Christ's See also:

BODY

body and soul at the resurrection. 12. Agnus Dei, i.e. a three-See also:

FOLD

fold petition to the See also:

Lamb of See also:

GOD

God. 13.

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PAX (Lat. for " peace ")

Pax, i.e. the See also:

KISS

kiss of See also:

peace. The See also:

ancient See also:

RITUAL (from Lat. ritus, a custom, especially a religious rite or custom)

ritual of the Pax has become almost obsolete. 14. Three prayers, accompanying the Pax and preliminary to communion. 15. Communion of priest and See also:

PEOPLE

people (if any), a short See also:

ANTHEM

anthem called '" Communio " being sung meanwhile. 16. See also:

ABLUTION (Lat. ablutio, from abluere, " to wash off ")

Ablution of See also:

PATEN (through the Fr. from Lat. patina or paten, Gr. aaravq, a flat dish)

paten and chalice. 17. See also:

POST

Post-communion, i.e. a concluding prayer. 18. Dismissal.

The Canon of the Mass strictly ends with No. 9; Nos. I0-18 being an appendix to it.

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