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  2. List of ecclesiastical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    It may be well to state at once that since 29 December 1878, by order of Leo XIII, the great papal documents (Litterae Apostolicae) are no longer written in the old Gothic hand known as bollatico; all abbreviations, with the exception of a few obvious ones, like S.R.E., were abolished by the same authority (Acta Sanctae Sedis, XI, 465–467).

  3. Catholic (term) - Wikipedia

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    The word catholic (derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the ancient Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos) ' universal ') [3] [4] comes from the Greek phrase καθόλου (katholou) ' on the whole, according to the whole, in general ', and is a combination of the Greek words κατά (kata) ' about ' and ὅλος (holos) ' whole '.

  4. Glossary of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious institute (Catholic) Religious order; Religious priest – see: Regular clergy (above) Rite to Being - The rite of being left alone to pray to Jesus Christ; Religious sister – see: Sister (below) Right of Option - a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new titulary; Roman Catholic - The Roman rite of the ...

  5. Mass (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, [1] Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in many Lutheran churches, [2] [3] [4] as well as in some Anglican churches, [5] and on rare occasion by other Protestant churches.

  6. Mass in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The term "Mass" is derived from the concluding words of the Roman Rite Mass in Latin: Ite, missa est ('Go, it is the dismissal', officially translated as 'Go forth, the Mass is ended'). The Late Latin word missa substantively corresponds to the classical Latin word missio. [10] In antiquity, missa simply meant "dismissal". In Christian usage ...

  7. Eucharist in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Eucharist (Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy, generally known as the Mass. [2]

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  9. Praxis (Byzantine Rite) - Wikipedia

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    Praxis, a transliteration of the Greek word πρᾶξις (derived from the stem of the verb πράσσειν, prassein "to do, to act"), means "practice, action, doing". [1] More particularly, it means either: practice, as distinguished from theory, of an art, science, etc.; or practical application or exercise of a branch of learning;