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What is Catholic "Gold ring mass"? What kind of liturgy it is?

What is the Catholic "Gold ring mass"? What kind of liturgy it is? Wow, I never thought anyone would ask this question. It is unbelievably hard to track down, but several years ago I ...
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What constitutes a choir for various pre-novus ordo monastic rites?

What constitutes a choir for various pre-novus ordo monastic rites? All the religious in the choir stalls are part of the choir, whether choir monks or Schola members. Lay brothers although not ...
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Does any Catholic Liturgical Rite follow the Ad Orientem form of Holy Mass?

Do any Catholic Liturgical Rite follow the Ad Orientem form of Holy Mass? The short answer is yes. The tradition of ad orientem worship is apostolic in origin. But despite that fact, there are more ...
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The difference(s) between “The Way of the Cross” by St. Francis and by St. Alphonsus?

The difference(s) between “The Way of the Cross” by St. Francis of Assisi and by St. Alphonsus Liguori? Before going into this post, I would like to point out that both St. Francis of Assisi and St. ...
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In the Lord's Prayer, do some Churches Omit "Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory," as a later addition?

In the Lord's Prayer, do some Churches Omit "Thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory," as a later addition? For Roman Catholics the traditional Mass omits the phrasing. In the Mass ...
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Clarification of the 2007 letter of Pope Benedict XVI to bishops on the liturgy

This is answered by another post on Corpus Christi Watershed: Four of the “new” prefaces are taken from the Ordinary Form, with adaptations to their concluding “eschatols,” so as to make them conform ...
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Clarification of the 2007 letter of Pope Benedict XVI to bishops on the liturgy

Clarification of the 2007 letter of Pope Benedict XVI to bishops on the liturgy? The two Liturgical Rites within the Roman Rite can be mutually beneficial if taken in the right atmosphere of growing ...
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Does any Catholic Liturgical Rite follow the Ad Orientem form of Holy Mass?

Even though this is just a very particular situation, maybe it adds a little colouring to the answer of Ken Graham: In the parish where I started as a deacon, the priest and I really studied on both ...
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Is there a specific liturgy for a Corpus Christi procession?

Is there a specific liturgy for a Corpus Christi procession? According to the Extraordinary Form yes. The Ordinary Form follows similar norms with more general leeway for popular devotional ...
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Has the Catholic Church ever considered substitution of the "Peace Be With You" salutations in the Liturgy?

I am not at home in the English translation of the liturgy, could you please state what Latin words at what place in the liturgy you think the Church should or might consider replacing? Even without ...
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Liturgical prayer in Aramaic?

Which Aramaic speaking Christian Church(es) uses a dialect of Aramaic in their liturgy that is the closest to the dialect that Jesus of Nazareth spoke in Palestine some 2000 years ago? It would seem ...
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Historically what percentage of the Catholic Church's liturgical function was done in Latin?

Historically what percentage of the Catholic Church's liturgical function was done in Latin? It seems logical to assert that the majority of the Roman Rite Masses were entirely in Latin, except for ...
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