medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John B. Wickstrom wrote:
>
> Thank you, John, for that information. Though I'm interested in your
> comment that the texts I quoted are part of "the vesting and prayers
> before Mass". When I was a boy and "served mass", we processed out and
> these were the first words that were dialoged at the foot of the altar
> between the celebrant and server. I always presumed that was the opening
> of the mass. The Introit, as you say, a variable text, was sung by the
> choir during that opening dialog and then, as I recall, the priest,
> having finished the dialogue, mounted the altar and repeated the introit
> from the missale. Was there a different point of beginning in the Sarum
> Rite (or elsewhere?)
No, it's much the same. What's confusing me is the way my source (Nick
Sandon, The Use of Salisbury) divides things up (he starts the Mass after
the celebrant and servers have vested), but also that the
In nomine patris + et filii + et spiritus + sancti. Amen.
comes much later, after "Oremus. Aufer a nobis ...", and before the censing
of the altar and the celebrant repeating the introit.
John Briggs
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