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Bishop Czeslaw Kozon, the Catholic bishop of Copenhagen, in pontifical liturgical vestments including the Chasuble.. The chasuble (/ ˈ tʃ æ zj ʊ b əl /) is the outermost liturgical vestment worn by clergy for the celebration of the Eucharist in Western-tradition Christian churches that use full vestments, primarily in Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.
A Roman Catholic deacon exhibiting a dalmatic and a biretta during a service in the Traditional Latin Rite Ornately embroidered dalmatic (shown from the back with a collarin) The dalmatic is a long, wide-sleeved tunic , which serves as a liturgical vestment in the Catholic , Lutheran , Anglican , United Methodist , and some other churches.
At the Chasuble: Domine, qui dixisti: Jugum meum suave est, et onus meum leve: fac, ut illud portare sic valeam, quod possim consequi tuam gratiam. "O Lord, Who said: My yoke is sweet, and My burden light: grant that I may be able so to bear it, so that I may be able to obtain Thy grace."
At Rome, especially, where the popes had succeeded to a share of the power and pretensions of the caesars of the West, the accumulation of ecclesiastical vestments symbolized a very special dignity: in the second quarter of the 9th century the pope, when fully vested, wore a camisia girdled, an alb (linea) girdled, an amice (anagolaium), a ...
In Rome, subdeacons had begun to wear the tunicle by the sixth century, but Pope Gregory I made them return to the use of the chasuble.They began to use the tunicle again in the ninth century, a time when it was also worn by acolytes, a custom that was widespread until the late Middle Ages and can still occasionally be found in some Anglican and Catholic churches for acolytes and crucifers.
The maniple is also worn with the dalmatic or tunicle, by the deacon and the subdeacon in a Solemn Mass, but only during the Mass proper. The maniple is not worn at other liturgical functions (e.g., the Asperges, processions) for which the dalmatic or tunicle is worn. The maniple is also a vestment used in most of the other Latin liturgical rites.
Elevation of the Host, with vision of St John of Matha, painting by Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1666. In Eastern and Western Christian liturgical practice, the elevation is a ritual raising of the consecrated Sacred Body and Blood of Christ during the celebration of the Eucharist.
A chasuble-alb is a contemporary Eucharistic vestment that combines features of the chasuble and alb. In the Roman Catholic Church , it was first adopted in France, though without official approval. In France it is no longer fashionable, but it has been officially approved in some tropical countries such as the Philippines , [ 4 ] and in Hawaii ...