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Example sentences for "high mass"

  • It has for a long time been customary to remove it before the gospel, which the priest recites turned towards the same direction as the deacon at high mass.

  • Having already given an account not only of low mass, but also of the additional ceremonies of high mass, as celebrated in the papal chapel, we shall here mention those only which are peculiar to palm-sunday.

  • The hymn, Veni Creator, was sung, and immediately thereafter the first session of the Vatican Council was formally opened with the celebration of High Mass.

  • The Holy Father himself then celebrated High Mass, and, what is still more noteworthy, delivered the sermon of the day.

  • At High Mass, ought the celebrant to elevate the Host before the choir has terminated the singing of the Sanctus and following words?

  • The choir agit partem ministri in its answers at High Mass, and on that account the priest must wait until it responds to him, as on other occasions he waits until the server or clerk terminates his answers.

  • But if his profound grasp of the reality of that which he expressed is the supreme excellence of Bach's High Mass, no less striking in its way is the discrimination with which he treats the different elements of the Creed.

  • The cantor is to lead all the monks of the choir at matins, high mass, vespers, and on all other occasions.

  • Item, the epistle and gospel at high mass are to be said by the monks in church, and in Lent the epistle is to be said by one monk or sub-deacon.

  • Let them also bear in mind that, according to the ritual of the Church, it is not lawful to sing hymns in the vernacular language at High Mass nor at solemn Vespers.

  • We cannot see what possible excuse we have any longer to offer for not singing the Introit, the Gradual, Offertory, and Communion at High Mass.

  • All must admit that the custom of omitting any ceremony or rite essential to the due celebration of High Mass, or any other function, is a bad custom--a custom to be discontinued the moment it is in our power to do so.

  • High Mass, and Archbishop Manning, as announced, was present, and preached the sermon.

  • On holy days, High Mass, with sermon, at 11 A.

  • The faculty of theology meets to assist at a high mass there on the anniversary festival of the saint.

  • Mass at 7½; at 9 we went to a high mass de requiem.

  • After breakfast, at 9, we went to high mass at the cathedral.

  • Said mass at Notre Dame, a fine Gothic church; went home to breakfast, and back to high mass at 9½.

  • After breakfast, I went to the bank, then to the cathedral, where there was a high mass de requiem; then I went to seek the Chanoine Stadler, a great friend of the English.

  • Here in England we have not got the Irish devotion to low mass, and to us therefore the decay of high mass is a greater loss.

  • Yes-no, let me see; I have seen her once at high mass.

  • For instance, how would you have me go to high mass, which is celebrated at my parish church at eleven o'clock exactly?

  • High Mass in the great Church of Saint Anthony.

  • Having taken this resolution, I availed myself of a special invitation from Mynheer Van den Bosch, the first organist of the place, and sat next to him in his lofty perch during the celebration of high mass.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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