concelebration

Some interpret this as a relic of the time before concelebration ceased (until after the Second Vatican Council) to be used in the West.

Lifting the Aër during the Symbol of the Faith (concelebration with three priests)

By the Second Vatican Council there were only two occasions when concelebration took place in the Roman Rite:

The liturgical reforms which took place following the Second Vatican Council included the provision for the return to the practice of concelebration of Mass.

The third matter is again liturgical and again related - that of concelebration (Sacrosanctum Concilium 57 and 58).

When the principal celebrant at a concelebration has permission to use mustum, a chalice of normal wine is to be prepared for the concelebrants.

Concelebration, and Communion under both kinds had meanwhile been permitted, and, in 1968, three additional Eucharistic Prayers were authorized for use alongside the traditional Roman Canon.

For a while, concelebration, whereby several priests took a full priestly part in offering Mass, provided all with the possibility to celebrate Mass each day, but this custom died out.

He applied the same rule to concelebration of the Eucharist (at that time in use only at ordination to episcopacy and to priesthood) in his talk of 22 September 1956.

And, even in the Tridentine period, when an ordination Mass was almost the only case of concelebration left in the West, all the concelebrants said the Canon together aloud.

Liturgical law allows concelebration on any occasion, but it is more common on feasts, especially those at which the bishop traditionally presides, such as the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday.

His heart was in his throat as he moved mechanically into the place assigned him for the concelebration and watched de Nore offer up the bread, numbly repeating the accompanying prayer with the others.

It is known from early Christian art uncovered through archaeology that concelebration took place in the Early Church in West, although it is not known precisely when it fell into disuse.

The May liturgy was the first concelebration between the Primate and First Hierarch of the respective churches, and the December liturgy involved many more bishops from both Synods.

Although some canonical and administrative difficulties currently preclude concelebration, HOCNA clergy will minister to the laity in these other Churches, if requested in certain circumstances, with the permission of their bishop.

We have fulfilled the wishes and hopes of Polish soldiers who fought in so many battlefields of the world. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, our concelebration today is overshadowed by tragic events in Kosovo.

In its article "The Liturgy of the Mass", the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia describes how, when concelebration ceased to be practised in Western Europe, Low Mass became distinguished from High Mass:

Concelebration Masses were becoming commonplace and Bishop McClean asked if we could provide 52 sets of white Mass vestments for use on important occasions with a particular view to the Diocesan Centenary Celebrations coming in 1978.

Bishop Basil's first liturgical service as a member of the Exarchate was a concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with Archbishop Gabriel in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris on 18 June 2006.

The Institute could be described as liberal catholic, with an enthusiastic attitude to ecumenism and concelebration, and support of the ordination of women including to the Episcopate (although there are no female clergy within the Institute at present).

Concelebration is and has always been common in Eastern Christianity, but in the Roman Catholic Church the practice fell into disuse for several centuries but has been revived with the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

These included a February 2011 concelebration with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk and Archbishop Justinian (Ovchinnikov) of Naro-Fominsk in St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City.

Churches generally have a single altar, although in the West, as a result of the former abandonment of concelebration of Mass, so that priests always celebrated Mass individually, larger churches have had one or more side chapels, each with its own altar.

Within churches which hold apostolic succession, it is reflected in the concelebration of the Eucharist, in joining the bishop in the laying on of hands on an ordinand to the priesthood, in collegial processions, at inductions, funerals, and other liturgical activities.

It also prohibited the passing of faithful from one church to the other, envisaged joint meetings of the two holy synods when appropriate, and provided for future guidelines for inter-communion of the faithful and Eucharistic concelebration by the clergy of the two churches.