The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

In March 2012, when the most recent installment of the company's Mass Effect series was released, the fandom was so displeased with the game's available endings that they demanded there be some kind of change.

On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, a Franciscan after whom the Sistine Chapel is named, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast.

He criticizes the Mass of Paul VI for what he calls its " Protestantizations ", such as referring to the service as a " supper " with a " table " and " cup " instead of a " sacrifice " with an " altar " and " chalice ", making the congregation, in his view, the center of worship instead of God, and so forth.

Hostility to the Catholic Church became so great that at one point, FSLN militants shouted down Pope John Paul II as he tried to say Mass.

In the 1552 revision, this was made abundantly plain by the restructuring of the elements of the rite while retaining nearly all the language so that it became, in the words of an anglo-catholic liturgiologist ( Arthur Couratin ) " a series of communion devotions ; disembarrassed of the Mass with which they were temporarily associated in 1548 and 1549 ".

The altar, fixed or movable, should as a rule be separate from the wall so as to make it easy to walk around it and to celebrate Mass at it facing the people.

Any bishop may consecrate the holy oils, and normally do so every Holy Thursday at a special " Chrism Mass ".

There was no daily Protestant service on the Navajo reservation, so Rich frequently attended daily Mass.

However, when in February 2009 the Holy See declared that the change should have waited until the whole of the Missal had been translated, the bishops conference appealed, with the result that those parishes that had adopted the new translation of the Order of Mass were directed to continue using it, while those that had not were told to await further instructions before doing so.

This then reacted on high Mass ( missa solemnis ), so that at high Mass too the celebrant himself recites everything, even though it be sung by the deacon, subdeacon, or choir.

For instance, the celebrant goes over to the north side of the altar to read the Gospel, because that is the side to which the deacon goes in procession at high Mass ; he turns round always by the right, because at high Mass he should not turn his back to the deacon and so on.

The treasures of the Bible are to be opened up more lavishly so that a richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God ’ s word ... A suitable place may be allotted to the vernacular in Masses which are celebrated with the people ... communion under both kinds may be granted when the bishops think fit ... as, for instance, to the newly ordained in the Mass of their sacred ordination, to the newly professed in the Mass of their religious profession, and to the newly baptized in the Mass which follows their baptism ..."

In the Philippines, this custom lasts for nine days, starting on December 16 and continuing daily up to December 24, during which Filipinos attend dawn Masses, usually starting at around 4: 00 – 5: 00 am In 2009 Vatican officials scheduled the Midnight Mass to start at 10 pm so the 82 year old Pope Benedict XVI would not have too late a night.

The patriarch Epiphanius invited him to perform Mass ; but the pope, mindful of the traditional policy of encroachment, refused to do so until they had offered him the first seat.

In the 1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal Philomena is mentioned, under 11 August ( with an indication that the Mass for her feastday was to be taken entirely from the common, so that there was no part, not even the collect, that was proper to her ) in the section headed " Masses for some places ", i. e. only those places for which it had been specially authorized.

Other treatments of a more or less benign character included shaving a cross in the person's hair or the tying of the person to the rood-screen in the church so that the mental condition might be improved by hearing Mass.

When the epistle is sung or chanted at Solemn Mass it is done so by the subdeacon.

In the same year, at the age of 21, he composed his Mass, which marks the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca.

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

Valentino's funeral Mass in New York was held at Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church, often called " The Actor's Chapel ", as it is located on West 49th Street in the Broadway theater district, and has a long association with show business figures.

The reason for the two-letter abbreviations is that it was thought that a long city name coupled with a multi-letter state abbreviation ( e. g. Mass.

Mass murderers are different from spree killers, who kill at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders and are not defined by the number of victims, and serial killers, who may kill large numbers of people over long periods of time.

* Cyclists in Cairo long for Critical Mass event

In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the political activist Noam Chomsky argues that exceptionalism and the denials of imperialism are the result of a systematic strategy of propaganda, to " manufacture opinion " as the process has long been described in other countries.

The characters in the novel have long discussions on the history of French Satanism up to their time, and eventually one of them is invited to participate in a Black Mass, the type of which Huysmans claimed was practised in Paris in those years.

On the album cover, it is stated that they spent a long time researching the material, and to their knowledge it was the first Black Mass published in any language.

During her time on Dancing with the Stars, judge Bruno Tonioli nicknamed her " The Weapon of Mass Seduction " because of her long legs.

; Falda: A vestment that forms a long skirt extending from under the hem of the alb ; worn only by the Pope during a Pontifical High Mass and draped over the Pope's body at a Papal Funeral.

In what was undoubtedly a long and demoralizing season, the Royals picked up just two wins all season, lost all of their 18 other games, conceded an astonishing 90 goals in the process, and finished bottom of the league, 37 points behind regular season champions Western Mass Pioneers.

" Mass action is the most powerful force on earth ," Powell once said, adding, " As long as it is within the law, it's not wrong ; if the law is wrong, change the law.

In: Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor ( Gregg Press: Boston, Mass., 1981 ) ( includes the tapescript of a long interview with Borneman conducted in 1979 by Reinhold Aman, the editor of the scholarly U. S. periodical Maledicta ; reprinted in the 1986 Penguin edition of the novel )

The dalmatic is a long wide-sleeved tunic, which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and United Methodist Churches, which is sometimes worn by a deacon at Mass or other services.

Less eloquent men followed, and the semi-religious, semi-philosophic style was beginning to grow tiresome, when Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, a disciple of Lacordaire, set it aside, and confined himself to an explanation of the Creed ; whereupon it was sententiously remarked that the bell had been ringing long enough, it was time for Mass to begin ( cf.

Mass participation and religious devotion are unmatched, for the Jat involves a long and arduous journey over treacherous terrains rising to an altitude of 5335 mts.

Bioware " has represented queer characters in its games for about as long as it has been making them ", including significant gay characters in its RPG franchises Mass Effect and the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.

In the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, Oriental Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheran churches, the Easter Vigil is the most important service of public worship and Mass of the liturgical year ; in the West it is the first celebration of the Gloria during the fifty-day long celebration of Easter, marked by the first use since the beginning of Lent of the exclamatory " Alleluia ", a distinctive feature of the Easter season.

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Many people stay after Mass, often long enough to meet others coming in to the following Mass.

In the Gallican Rite the offerings were prepared before Mass began, as in the Eastern Liturgy of Preparation, so there was no long version of the Offertory nor place for a Lavabo before the Eucharistic Prayer.