The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with commentary has been televised several times in recent months.

It is blessed by the bishop of the diocese at the Chrism Mass he celebrates on Holy Thursday or on a day close to it.

The Council issued condemnations on what it defined as Protestant heresies and defined Church teachings in the areas of Scripture and Tradition, Original Sin, Justification, Sacraments, the Eucharist in Holy Mass and the veneration of saints.

Under the status quo, the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Apostolic Churches all have rights to the interior of the tomb, and all three communities celebrate the Divine Liturgy or Holy Mass there daily.

It also permits Holy Communion to be received under the form of either bread or wine alone, except by a priest who is celebrating Mass without other priests or as principal celebrant.

On 6 December 1708, Pope Clement XI made the feast of the Conception of Mary, at that time still with the Nativity of Mary formula for the Mass, a Holy Day of Obligation.

While he was saying Roman Catholic Mass in the parish church on Holy Innocents ' Day, 28 December 1384, he suffered a stroke, and died on the last day of the month.

The most significant liturgical acts reserved to priests in these traditions are the administration of the Sacraments, including the celebration of the Holy Mass or Divine Liturgy ( the terms for the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin and Byzantine traditions, respectively ), and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, also called Confession.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was Alexander I who inserted the narration of the Last Supper ( the Qui pridie ) into the Catholic celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Priests are permitted to officiate marriages without Holy Mass.

Accordingly, in order to implement a decision of that council, he standardised the Holy Mass by promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.

* The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol of the Faith is used for the first time during the Roman Mass after Henry II, the newly crowned Holy Roman Emperor, asks the Pope to add it together with the filioque clause.

The rule consisted of sixteen articles, which enjoined strict obedience to their prior, residence in individual cells, constancy in prayer, the hearing of Mass every morning in the oratory of the community, vows of poverty and toil, daily silence from vespers until terce the next morning, abstinence from all forms of meat except in cases of severe illness, and fasting from Holy Cross Day ( September 14 ) until the Easter of the following year.

Up to the time that James succeeded to the crown of England, Father Abercromby remained at the Scottish court, celebrating Mass in secret, and giving Holy Communion nine or ten times to his neophyte.

An 1819 picture showing Mastai-Ferretti at his first Holy Mass

The Pope originally insisted that another priest should assist Mastai during Holy Mass, a stipulation that was later rescinded, after the seizure attacks became less frequent.

The deacon's liturgical ministry includes various parts of the Mass proper to the deacon, including being an ordinary minister of Holy Communion and the proper minister of the chalice when Holy Communion is administered under both kinds.

Deacons, like priests and bishops, are ordinary ministers of the sacrament of Baptism and can serve as the church's witness at the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, which the bride and groom administer to each other ( though if the exchange of vows takes place in a wedding Mass, or Nuptial Mass, the Mass is celebrated by the priest and the deacon acts as another witness ).

The Holy Thursday evening Mass of the Lord's Supper marks the beginning of the Easter Triduum, which includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday.

The term " Mass " is generally used only in the Latin Church, while the Byzantine-Rite Eastern Catholic Churches use the analogous term " Divine Liturgy " and other Eastern Catholic Churches have terms such as Holy Qurbana.

However, there are certain limitations: they may not administer the sacraments and related functions whose celebration is reserved to bishops, priests, deacons, or seminarians ( the male clergy ), namely, Holy Orders ( they may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, Eucharistic ministers, or lectors-the minor ministries which are now open to the non-ordained ).

The ordination of a deacon occurs after the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) since his role is not in performing the Holy Mystery but consists only in serving ; the ceremony is much the same as at the ordination of a priest, but the deacon-elect is presented to the people and escorted to the holy doors by two sub-deacons ( his peers, analogous to the two deacons who so present a priest-elect ) is escorted three times around the Holy Table by a deacon, and he kneels on only one knee during the Prayer of Cheirotonia.

Others add a praying of a pious Eucharistic prayer " O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine " at the end of each decade in honor of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

During this time, the dismissal at all services begin with the words, " May Christ our True God, who rose from the dead ...." Anyone who wishes to receive Holy Communion at Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning is required to attend Vespers the night before ( see Eucharistic discipline ).

Apart from " Eucharist " others are the " Lord's Supper ", the " Breaking of Bread ", the " Eucharistic assembly ( synaxis )", the " memorial of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection ", the " Holy Sacrifice ", the " Holy and Divine Liturgy " and " Holy Communion ".

The Eucharistic Prayer includes the epiclesis, a prayer that the gifts offered may by the power of the Holy Spirit become the body and blood of Christ.

Unlike many of the Protestant bodies, the Orthodox also see the Eucharistic Liturgy as a bloodless sacrifice, during which the bread and wine we offer to God become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the descent and operation of the Holy Spirit, Who effects the change.

The lamp or candle usually situated next to the tabernacle denoting the Presence of Christ is put out, and the remaining Eucharistic Hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday are kept elsewhere, usually the sacristy, with a lamp or candle burning before it, so that, in cases of the danger of death, they may be given as viaticum.

The epiclesis ( also spelled epiklesis ; from " invocation " or " calling down from on high ") is that part of the Anaphora ( Eucharistic Prayer ) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit ( or the power of His blessing ) upon the Eucharistic bread and wine in some Christian churches.

It is similar to the Syrian Church eucharist rite of the Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari, belonging to " a primordial era when the euchology of the Church had not yet inserted the Institution Narrative in the text of the Eucharistic Prayer.

In addition, the Ambrosian Rite has two proper Eucharistic Prayers, used mainly on Easter and Holy Thursday.

* Church of St. Stephen-Church of the Holy Miracle ( Igreja do Santissimo Milagre ) Home to the 13th-century Eucharistic Miracle of Santarém, a popular destination among Catholics worldwide.

The term " Low Mass " is sometimes used also by Christians not in communion with the Holy See for a spoken, not sung, form of their own Eucharistic celebrations.

This procession commemorates the Miracle of the Host of 15 March 1345, a Eucharistic miracle which involved a dying man vomiting upon being given the Holy Sacrament and last rites.

Eucharistic churches which usually have Holy Communion either every Sunday or several Sundays a month.

The main book includes the Sunday services of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer, Baptism ( though not Confirmation ), and various forms of Holy Communion, including eight Eucharistic Prayers, not all of which adhere to the Hippolytan form, and all of which are designed to be interpreted in a broadly Reformed sense.

In many cases Eucharistic adoration is performed by each person for an uninterrupted hour known as the Holy Hour.

The Italian mystic Maria Valtorta's Eucharistic meditations titled Holy Hour of Jesus were recorded in her notebooks while she was bedridden for over 20 years and the Eucharist was brought to her.

The visions revealed to her the form of the devotion, the chief features being reception of Holy Communion on the First Friday Devotions of each month, the Eucharistic adoration during the Holy Hour on Thursdays, and the celebration of the Feast of the Sacred Heart.

His works include a treatise on the Holy Eucharist, one on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, many lives of saints, as well as a history of his term as Prior General of the Camaldolese.

* Procession of the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen on Videoactive

The city is renowned for its Easter related Holy Week activities and traditions, culminating between Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani, colloquially simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day long passion procession organized and sponsored by the city's guilds, featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries, of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.

Other similar works are his treatise in four books against the Manichaeans and Paulicians, and his controversy with the Latins on the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

Two of the biggest festivals are the three-day carnival at Binche, near Mons, held just before Lent ( the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter ), and the Procession of the Holy Blood, held in Bruges in May.

Two books about the Procession of the Holy Ghost ; another one " against the insertion of the Filioque in the Creed "; two books and a letter about " Purgatory "; various sermons and speeches ; a Panegyric of Marcus Eugenicus ( in 1447 ), etc.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

Trapani holds one of the most elaborate processions for Holy Week anywhere in the world, culminating in the Processione dei Misteri di Trapani or simply the Misteri di Trapani ( in English the Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani or the Mysteries of Trapani ), a day-long passion procession featuring twenty floats of lifelike wood, canvas and glue sculptures of individual scenes of the events of the Passion.

Not the least of his achievements on this occasion was the successful attempt, made with extraordinary tact, ability, knowledge and perseverance, to induce the Orientals, Anglicans and Old Catholics present to accept a formula of concord drawn from the writings of the leading theologians of the Greek Church, on the long-vexed question of the Procession of the Holy Spirit.

* Procession of the Addolorata ( Friday before Palm Sunday )-is the procession that begins the rites of Holy Week.

* Procession of the Mysteries ( Rite of Holy Week, Good Friday )

* Procession of Distressed ( Rite of Holy Week, Holy Saturday )-Probably the most impressive procession of Holy Week.

In this period, the parliamentary gathering began to be preceded by an open-air State Procession ( which often attracted large numbers of onlookers ): the Monarch, together with Household retinue, would proceed in State from whichever royal residence was being used, first to Westminster Abbey for a service ( usually a Mass of the Holy Ghost, prior to the Reformation ), and thence on foot ( accompanied by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their robes ) to the Palace of Westminster for the Opening itself.

Other important days include the festival dedicated to Saint Sebastian in January in the Barrio de Zapotla, Carnival in some neighborhoods, the Procession of the Holy Burial on Good Friday and a pre Hispanic festival called Ue-izkal-ilhuitl, or the spring equinox.

The most evocative of these are the Procession of the Apostles of Holy Thursday and the Procession of the Mysteries of Good Friday.

The chapel of Santa Ana is the scene of the commemoration of the Virgen de los Dolores ( Virgin of the Sorrows ) on the sixth Friday of Lent and the Procession of the Holy Burial ( Santo Entierro ) during Holy Week.

During the 1920s and early 1930s a squadron of mounted lanceros ( lancers ) formed part of the Legion and in 1982 a mounted section of the Policia Militar de la Legion was formed to carry the traditional lances and pennants during the Holy Week Procession in Malaga to continue the practice.

The Procession and Mass saw the participation of over 50 Catholic communities from across Southern California, including Knights of Malta, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Knights of Columbus, Knights of Peter Claver, and many others.