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  2. Mass in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Ritual Mass texts may not be used, except perhaps partially, when the rite is celebrated during especially important liturgical seasons or on high ranking feasts. A Nuptial Mass [94] is a Ritual Mass within which the sacrament of matrimony is celebrated. If one of a couple being married in a Catholic church is not a Catholic, the rite of ...

  3. History of the Catholic Church in the United States - Wikipedia

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    San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established in 1610, is the oldest church in the United States.. The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions.

  4. Eastern Catholic liturgy - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 155 Catholic Ge'ez Rite altar vessels were similarly latinized and a hybridized scheme developed for using unleavened bread at the equivalent of a Low Mass while having leavened bread at the equivalent of a Solemn Mass; in Eritrea, it was universal custom to use unleavened bread as in Latin practice.

  5. Timeline of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church has been the driving force behind some of the major events of world history including the Christianization of Western and Central Europe and Latin America, the spreading of literacy and the foundation of the universities, hospitals, the Western tradition of monasticism, the development of art and music, literature ...

  6. Latin liturgical rites - Wikipedia

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    Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, is a large family of liturgical rites and uses of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the largest particular church sui iuris of the Catholic Church, that originated in Europe where the Latin language once dominated.

  7. Easter Vigil - Wikipedia

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    The original twelve Old Testament readings for the Easter Vigil survive in an ancient manuscript belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.The Armenian Easter Vigil also preserves what is believed to be the original length of the traditional gospel reading of the Easter Vigil, i.e., from the Last Supper account to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew.

  8. Mass (liturgy) - Wikipedia

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    Today's Mass readings (New American Bible version) The Readings of the Mass (Jerusalem Bible version) Mass Readings (text in official Lectionary for Ireland, Australia, Britain, New Zealand etc.) Tridentine Mass. Text of the Tridentine Mass in Latin and English; Anglicanism. The Anglican Missal online; The Book of Common Prayer (1662) and ...

  9. Divine Liturgy - Wikipedia

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    But when the liturgy is joined to vespers (on Christmas Eve, Theophany Eve, the feast of the Annunciation (except when these days fall on Saturday or Sunday (or, in the Annunciation's case, during Easter Week)), Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday) after the Old Testament readings the Little Litany is said and the liturgy continues from this point: