Aug 222010
Many of the articles on the site, especially those from the New Catholic Dictionary, refer to the elements and furniture related to the celebration of the Mass, and the equipment and structure of a proper church for the routine celebration. They include
- abacus
- ablution
- Acathistus
- access
- acclamation
- accolade
- acolyte
- ad libitum
- Adoration of the Cross
- Adoro Te devote, latens Deitas
- agnetz
- alb
- aliturgical days
- altar
- altar bell
- altar boys
- altar bread
- altar candles
- altar candlesticks
- altar canopy
- altar cards
- altar carpets
- altar cavity
- altar cloths
- altar cover
- altar crucifix
- altar curtains
- altar frontal
- altar hearse
- altar horns
- altar in Scripture
- altar lamp
- altar lanterns
- altar ledge
- altar of Our Lady
- altar of repose
- altar of repository
- altar piece
- altar protector
- altar rail
- altar side
- altar societies
- altar steps
- altar stole
- altar stone
- alternation
- ambitus altaris
- ambo
- amen
- amice
- anaphora
- anniversary
- ante-pendium
- antidoron
- antimensium
- Antiochene Rite
- Apostle in Liturgy
- arca
- archiparaphonista
- Armenian Rite
- asperges
- asterisk
- azure
- balsam
- Black Mass
- blessed bread
- blue
- bowing
- Bread of Life
- bursa
- bursary
- burse
- bye altar
- Byzantine Rite
- Canon of the Mass
- censer
- cere-cloth
- chalice
- chancel
- Chapter Mass
- Cherubic Hymn
- chrismal
- chrismarium
- chrismation
- cloth of gold
- Common of the Mass
- communion rail
- confiteor
- consecration
- consecration of altars
- Constantinople
- Conventual Mass
- Coptic Rite
- corporal
- cotta
- counter-retable
- credence
- credence-table
- cruet
- Cursal Mass
- dalmatic
- dorsal
- double altar
- double feast
- duplex feast
- duplicia majora
- Durham Rite
- episcopal sandals
- epistle in liturgy
- Ethiopic Liturgy
- Eucharist
- eve
- ex voto
- faldstool
- Field Mass
- fixed altar
- flectamus genua
- Gallican Rite
- Golden Legend - History of the Mass
- Gospel in Liturgy
- Gospel side of altar
- gradual
- Graduale
- Gregorian Sacramentary
- high altar
- High Mass
- Host
- hunter's Mass
- hymnody
- introit
- Lady altar
- Lamb of God
- language in liturgy
- Last Gospel
- liturgical colors
- liturgical use of bread
- liturgical use of kiss
- Liturgy of Addeus and Maris
- Liturgy of Saint James
- Low Mass
- major doubles
- Maronite Liturgy
- Mass
- Mass dials
- Mass of Requiem
- Mass of the Pre-sanctified
- Mass-penny
- Mass-priest
- Midnight Mass
- Missa cantata
- Missa sicca
- Missa venatoria
- missal
- Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
- oblation
- offertory
- Order of the Mass
- ordinary doubles
- Ordinary of the Mass
- osculatorium
- pall
- Papal Mass
- parochial Mass
- Passion music
- Passion Sunday
- patrons of altar servers
- pax
- pax-board
- peace in liturgy
- peace tablet
- peace-plate
- plain chant
- Pontifical Mass
- postcommunion
- praefatio
- prayers for the dead
- predella
- preface
- presbytery
- prescribed prayer
- privileged altar
- Profession of Faith of Pius IV
- Proper of the Mass
- propitiare
- propitiation
- prostration
- pulpit
- purple
- red
- Red Mass
- repository
- Requiem Mass
- reredos
- respondere
- response
- responsory
- retable
- Rite of Constantinople
- rood loft
- rood screen
- rood stairs
- rose (color)
- rubrics
- Ruthenian Rite
- sacramentary
- Sacramentary of Adrian I
- sacred host
- sacred vessels
- Saints of the Mass
- salutation
- sanctuary
- sanctus
- Sarum Rite
- Sarum Use
- Saturday in White
- sequence
- Slavonic language and liturgy
- Solemn Mass
- soutane
- spoon
- squint
- stragulum
- sung Mass
- superpeliceum
- surplice
- vespebale
- vigil
- violet