Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Mass, Proper of the
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Those parts of the Mass which vary with the day according to the feast celebrated. It consists of
- the first four chants of the choir
- introit
- gradual (or tract)
- Alleluia (or perhaps a sequence)
- offertory
- Communion
- lessons
- epistle
- Gospel (sometimes added lessons from the Old Testament)
- the prayers said by the celebrant
- collect
- Secret
- postcommunion
There are often several of each to commemorate feasts coinciding with that being kept.
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Entry for 'Mass, Proper of the'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/mass-proper-of-the.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Mass, Proper of the'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/mass-proper-of-the.html. 1910.
