Mass extinctions seem to be a Phanerozoic phenomenon, with extinction rates low before large complex organisms arose.

Reactive ions are frequently used in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ( SIMS ) equipment to enhance the sputter rates.

Mass media attention began by relaying highly controversial, and at times, violent coverage of the protest events, showcasing dramatic outcomes that would lead to higher viewing and readership rates.

a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave.

Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit cost for manufactured goods.

They may not fill the clerical role of serving as the Mass celebrant and as a clerical witness to a marriage ( they may serve as a non-ordained witness alongside the laity, for example, at a friend's wedding ).

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

* Hans Hofmann and Sara T Weeks ; Bartlett H Hayes ; Addison Gallery of American Art ; Search for the real, and other essays ( Cambridge, Mass., M. I. T.

Among these sacred works there survives a Mass in C major written without a " Gloria " and in the antique a cappella style ( presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons ) and dated 2 August 1767.

" Previously the Nicene Creed was the only profession of faith that the Missal gave for use at Mass, except in Masses for children ; but in some countries use of the Apostles ' Creed was already permitted.

" Mass Media for Diaspora " booth.

In liturgical language Breviary has a special meaning, indicating a book furnishing the regulations for the celebration of Mass or the canonical Office, and may be met with under the titles Breviarium Ecclesiastici Ordinis, or Breviarium Ecclesiæ Rominsæ ( Romanæ ).

Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.

The ordinary Roman Rite of the Mass had made no provision for any congregation present to receive Communion.

Mandatory priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, or dogma, of the Church ( examples of Catholic doctrine would be the principle of the absolute respect for life or the belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception ) but a church rule or discipline, like the use of the vernacular ( local ) language in Mass or the ancient rule of Lenten fasting and abstinence.

The sacrifice of the Mass was to be offered for dead and living alike and in giving to the apostles the command " do this in remembrance of me ," Christ conferred upon them a sacerdotal power.

During this era, the Cottage was used for choir singing and marching bands along with other performances, and Mass.

The first level is a public thoroughfare for three pedestrian bridges linking the Mass Transit Railway, the Convention and Exhibition Centre and the China Resource Building.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

In these units, both distances and times are expressed in inverse energy units ( while energy and mass are expressed in the same units, see Mass – energy equivalence ).

The Mass Media has been speculating that pirates from Somalia use the hawala system to move funds internationally, for example into neighboring Kenya, where these transactions are neither taxed nor recorded.

In fact, it is argued that these new contributions to traditional myths add value and meaning to the stories for new generations ( Matira, " Children's Oral Literature and Modern Mass Media ", 55-57 ).

One or other of these two creeds is recited in the Roman Rite Mass directly after the homily on all Sundays and Solemnities ( Tridentine Feasts of the First Class ).

One of the most common reasons for holding this belief is the idea that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and especially the replacement of the Tridentine Mass with the Mass of Paul VI are heretical, and that those responsible for initiating and maintaining these changes are heretics and not true popes.

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.

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

In these denominations, the term Mass often colloquially refers to the entire church service in general.

Asistencias (" satellite " or " sub " missions, sometimes referred to as " contributing chapels ") were small-scale missions that regularly conducted Mass on days of obligation but lacked a resident priest ; as with the missions, these settlements were typically established in areas with high concentrations of potential native converts.

The liturgy contained in the 1570 – 1962 editions of the Roman Missal is frequently referred to as the Tridentine Mass: all these editions placed at the start the text of the bull Quo primum in which Pope Pius V linked the issuance of his edition of the Roman Missal to the Council of Trent.

" One of the most ancient of these rites of reconciliation, the Kiss of Peace as a sign of reconciliation between communicants as an intrinsic part of these communicants ' preparation for Communion has been restored to all the faithful and no longer limited to clerics at High Mass.

Of these, the second, for strings, featuring a solo trumpet which plays a chorale tune by Johann Sebastian Bach in the final movement, and the third, subtitled Symphonie Liturgique with its three movements evoking the Requiem Mass ( Dies Irae, De profundis clamavi and Dona nobis pacem ), are probably the best known.

Usually these are a Gradual followed by an Alleluia ; but between Septuagesima Sunday and Holy Saturday, or in a Requiem or other penitential Mass the Alleluia is replaced by a Tract, and between Easter Sunday and Pentecost the Gradual is replaced by a second Alleluia.

Of these, only the five that form part of the Ordinary of the Mass are usually sung at a Missa Cantata.

He also wore a humeral veil while holding the paten during a large part of Solemn High Mass, from the offertory to the Our Father ; and, if the chalice and paten with host were not already on the altar, he also used the humeral veil when bringing these to the altar at the offertory.

The most extreme of these is a work actually known as the Jäger Mass ( Missa venatorum )— the " Hunter's Mass.

All of these limited production and custom knives were made at the Springfield, Mass.

The Chrism Mass, whose texts the Roman Missal now gives under Holy Thursday, may be brought forward to one of these days, to facilitate participation by as many as possible of the clergy of the diocese together with the bishop.

Many Filipinos bring home the palm leaves after the Mass and place these above their front doors or their windows, believing that doing so can ward off evil spirits.

According to his estate, these included 12, 189 copies of the Orgone Energy Bulletin, 6, 261 copies of the International Journal of Sex Economy and Orgone Research, 2, 976 copies of Annals of the Orgone Institute, and copies of several of his books, including The Sexual Revolution, Character Analysis and The Mass Psychology of Fascism.

A revised version of these lectures was published as Mind and World ( Cambridge, Mass.