Western Rite Culture, Part II

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Western Rite liturgy: corporal cloth and burse

Western Rite liturgy: traditional silver cruet

Western Rite vestments: dalmatic worn by Deacons, Bishops, and thurifers

Easter sepulchre at Heckington, made for the especially beautiful Sarum rite services for Holy Week. The dramatic service of the burial of Christ on Good Friday is a distinctive of non-Tridentine Roman rites.

Western Rite liturgics: priest celebrating Mass in a WR church

Western Rite liturgics: a French roodscreen

Western Rite church architecture: a chapel in Rome, frescoed by Giotto

Western Rite liturgics: Sarum-rite chanter singing at the Kyrieleyson

Western Rite liturgics: server censing, wearing a surplice (servers may cense in the WR)

Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, England

Western Rite Mass according to the Sarum use: reading of the Gospel

Western Rite vestments: the maniple, worn by Bishops, Priests, Deacons, and Subdeacons

Western Rite liturgics: the Missal or mass-book, much larger than the ER priest's sluzhebnik

WR liturgics: incense-boat or navicella

WR liturgics: holy oil vessels (always made of silver)

WR liturgy: chalice with pall. This stiff brocade piece prevents the veil from dipping into the chalice as the chalice is veiled and unveiled repeatedly during the Mass.

decoration of an old Western Rite church, Italy

chalice with paten

a Western Rite Orthodox prayer book, approved for use by Russian Orthodox Church authority

Pyx and veil. Reserved Gifts are carried in the pyx to the altar, and to the sick.

Reconstructed roodscreen at Lound

Reconstructed roodscreen at Southwold

Relics of St. Genevieve of Paris

Choir enclosure and rood screen, St. Cecilia's, Albi, France

Roodscreen at Barnack, England

Roodscreen, Wakefield Church

Roodscreen at Warmington

Detail, roodscreen at Warmington, England

Roodloft stairs, church at Whepstead, Suffolk

Roodscreen, St. Hilda's, Leeds, Yorkshire

Roodscreen, St. John Baptist, Lounds

Roodscreen, St. Mary the Virgin, Kettlebaston, Suffolk

Roodscreen, St. Peter's church, Nottingham

Roodscreen, St. Agnes' church, Caweston

Roodscreen, St. Mary's church, Yaxley

Sedilia (clergy-seats in the sanctuary) at Heckington

WR vestments: a Bishop's mitre, St. Denis, France

WR church architecture: roodscreen door in a stave church, Norway

another roodscreen door, stave church, Norway

roodscreen, S. Julien le Pauve, France

WR vestments: the stole or orarium

WR liturgics: holy water stoup. Often these were portable so that the blessing of waters appointed in the ancient Roman rite for every Sunday, could be carried out in the centre of the church before the roodscreen door before every Sun. Mass.

WR vestments: traditional form of the chasuble (looks very similar to a Russian style phelonion except the front is not cut away).

WR iconography at Torcello

Western style iconography, Torcello

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