Cantus firmus was most popularly used in sacred polyphonic compositions well into the Baroque Era of classical music, especially with cantus firmus mass. A mass is a large sacred body of work that outlines the Catholic Church liturgy, and it was often written with cantus firmus. The plainchant...
The Catholic imagination is a cultural and aesthetic tradition across art forms and time periods in which storytelling and expression are influenced by Roman Catholic theology and belief. Although works of the Catholic imagination might depict Catholic c
Latin of various parts of theRoman Empire. During theMiddle Agesand until comparatively recent times, Latin was thelanguagemost widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes. Until the latter part of the 20th century its use was required in the liturgy of theRoman CatholicChurch....
Processions have been a part of the Roman Catholiceucharisticliturgy (mass) at the entrance rite and at the offertory rite, when the bread and wine to be used in the liturgy are brought up to the altar. Although many of these processions were discontinued at the end of the Middle Ages,...
Church liturgy, particularly the scriptural readings for the Good Friday commemoration of the Crucifixion, contributed to this enmity. Such views were finally renounced by the Roman Catholic Church decades after the Holocaust with the Vatican II declaration ...
Church liturgy, particularly the scriptural readings for the Good Friday commemoration of the Crucifixion, contributed to this enmity. Such views were finally renounced by the Roman Catholic Church decades after the Holocaust with the Vatican II declaration of Nostra aetate (Latin: “In Our Era”)...
liturgy on festival occasions. In Russia, where the dioceses have always been few and have covered avastarea, the main church in any large town became known as a cathedral (sobor), even though no bishop was in residence there. The principal church of a bigmonasteryalso assumed the same ...
of the Devil and a race of vipers. Church liturgy, particularly the scriptural readings for theGood Fridaycommemoration of the Crucifixion, contributed to this enmity. Such views were finally renounced by theRoman Catholic Churchdecades after the Holocaust with theVatican IIdeclaration ofNostra aetate...
liturgy, particularly the scriptural readings for theGood Fridaycommemoration of the Crucifixion, contributed to this enmity. Such views were finally renounced by theRoman Catholic Churchdecades after the Holocaust with theVatican IIdeclaration ofNostra aetate(Latin: “In Our Era”) in 1965, which ...