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A Mass card is a card which indicates that a person, whether living or deceased, will be included in the intentions at a specific Catholic Mass or set of Masses. After donation of the Mass stipend, the card is presented to the person or, if deceased, their family. [5] [6] Mass cards are a relatively recent custom, with the term's first recorded ...
A celebret, in Catholic canon law, is a letter from a bishop or religious superior authorizing a priest to say Mass in a/an (arch)diocese other than his own. The name of the document is taken from the Latin celebret , meaning “may he celebrate”, as it is traditionally the first word of the text therein.
Annunciation by Robert Campin; a wood print is in the top right, between candle fixtures.. Old master prints, nearly all on religious subjects, served many of the same functions as holy cards, especially the cheaper woodcuts; the earliest dated surviving example is from 1423, probably from southern Germany, and depicts Saint Christopher, with handcolouring, it is found as part of the binding ...
Altar cards were not used before the sixteenth century, and even today they are not used when a bishop celebrates the Tridentine Mass, because he reads the entire Mass from the Pontifical Canon. [1] When Pope Pius V restored the Missal, only the card at the middle of the altar was used, and it was called the "Tabella Secretarum". [ 1 ]
A US Navy Catholic chaplain celebrates Mass for Marines on Saipan, June 1944, commemorating those who died during amphibious landings there. Reverend William R. Arnold – Served as Army chief of chaplains 1937 to 1945, first Catholic to hold that post. Later served as Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces
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A reception for him was held on July 30, 1881. A platform was built on the front of the church for the occasion. Bishop McMullen celebrated Mass for the first time in St. Margaret's Cathedral the following day. [10] Father Cosgrove became the cathedral's rector and the vicar general of the diocese.