Church Documents
Articles on this theme in every issue of the review.
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From the Church’s documents
How Can the Faithful Participate in the Sung Mass?
Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction on Sacred Music and the Sacred Liturgy according to the Spirit of the Encyclicals of Pius XII Musicae Sacrae Disciplina and Mediator Dei, September 1958, no. 25.
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From the Church’s documents
Questions and Answers: The Order of Precedence in the Entrance Procession
Who walks where in the entrance procession, from the thurifer to the presider, according to the GIRM (nos. 120–121; 172–173).
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From the Church’s documents
Questions and Answers: The Sacred Vessels, Benediction and the Alb
Three questions on uncovering the sacred vessels before the epiclesis, standing for the Oremus at Benediction, and celebrating Mass without the alb, answered from the Ceremonial of Bishops and Redemptionis Sacramentum.
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From the Church’s documents
Questions and Answers: Sacred Vestments and Concelebration
Five questions on vestments and the habit, the surplice and the alb, and how concelebrants vest, answered from the GIRM and Redemptionis Sacramentum.
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From the Church’s documents
Questions and Answers: Instruments, the Lamb of God and the Altar Cross
Three questions on the celebration of Mass, answered from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM 32, 83, 117, 122, 188).
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From the Church’s documents
Questions and Answers: Incense at Mass
When incense may be used at Mass, the traditional way of incensing the offerings, and how images and liturgical objects are incensed, from the GIRM (nos. 276–277).