Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII CENSING IN THE WESTERN RITES AT MASS DEVELOPMENTS Taking the documents of the ninth century or the end of the eighth as a starting point, we will next describe the developments of the incense ceremonial in the service called the Liturgy in the East, and the Mass in the West. For clearness it will be best to take the West first, and to enter into the particulars of the development at each liturgical moment separately. The first of these is, of course, the ceremonious entry of the celebrant and his assistants, from the vestry into the church, and up to the altar. At Rome, as Ordo romanus primus tells us, the pope was preceded by one of the subdeacons (termed subdiaconus sequens) carrying a golden censer smoking with incense, before whom the seven collets of the district carried seven lighted candles.' On reaching the quire the collets divided, four passing to the right, and three to the left, to let the pope pass through them to the head of the quire, where he knelt in prayer for a while. No further directions are given for lights or incense until the time for reading the liturgical gospel. For further developments we have to go to Gaul. The documents are three Romano-gallican Ordines, the second, fifth and sixth of Mabillon's collection; and the two expositions of the mass given by Amalar of Metz, in his books De officiis, and Ecloga respectively. The Ordines are printed from a MS of the ninth century, and Amalar wrote c. 825. Ordo II is a gallicanised recension of Ordo I: but the altera 'Tunc subdiaconus sequens cum thymiamaterio procedit ante ipsum mittens incensum; et septem acolythi illius regionis cuius dies fuerit, portantes septem cereostata accensa, praecedunt ante pontificem usque ante altare (Ordo I, n. 8: Mabillon, ..
