. A history of the mass and its ceremonies in the eastern and wester church. he hollow-formedsilver cranes that he saw in the church of Mentz, and howthe Incense issued from them when fire was applied ( 208, note). ORIENTAL USAGE. In the Oriental churches a free use of Incense is keptup all through divine service ; and this is not confined toMass alone—it forms part of nearly every exercise of devo-tion (Renaudot, Liturg. Orient., i. p. 183). The Copts use it befoi*e pictures ^ of the Blessed Virgin{ibid.); so also do the Greeks and Russians, both of whomare particularly careful to keep
. A history of the mass and its ceremonies in the eastern and wester church. he hollow-formedsilver cranes that he saw in the church of Mentz, and howthe Incense issued from them when fire was applied ( 208, note). ORIENTAL USAGE. In the Oriental churches a free use of Incense is keptup all through divine service ; and this is not confined toMass alone—it forms part of nearly every exercise of devo-tion (Renaudot, Liturg. Orient., i. p. 183). The Copts use it befoi*e pictures ^ of the Blessed Virgin{ibid.); so also do the Greeks and Russians, both of whomare particularly careful to keep a lamp burning besides,upon which they throw grains now and tlien through theday (Dr. Rock, Church of Our Fathers, i. p. 209, note;Burder, Religious Ceremonies and Customs, pp. 150, 151;Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church, passim,by Romanoff). > Throughout the East generally, instead of statues of saints, pictures are used, forthe Orientals maintain that the clause of Deuteronomy In which * graven things ar«forbidden should be literally observed even CHAPTER VII. BACKED MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. SACKED MUSIC. As it would not be exactly in the line of this book to en-ter into a full history of Ecclesiastical Music, we think weshall have done our part when we have given the reader abrief account of the place that it holds to-day in the serviceof the Church. And first let us remark that it is only in High Mass thatmusic forms part of divine service. For Low Mass it is notprescribed. For the preservation and cultivation of ecclesiastical mu-sic, or Chant, as it is generally called, in the Latin orWestern Church, we are principally indebted to the zealouslabors of St. Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan (fourth cen-tury), and to the illustrious pontiffs, Gelasius and Gregorythe Great. Most of the hymns of the Divine Office, or Bre-viary, are the work of the first named ; and these, at leastin great part, he was led to compose, as he says himself, inorder to coun
Size: 1865px × 1340px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, books, booksubjectcatholicchurch
