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saint_n	day_n	easter_n	week_n	1,303	5	10.2063	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45924	The institutions of the Congregation of the Oratory, at St. Maries in Vallicella, within the city of Rome. Founded by St. Philip Nerius	Congregation of the Oratory. Santa Maria in Vallicella (Church : Rome, Italy)	1687 (1687)	Wing I233A; ESTC R215995	48,632	109

and performing several other duties never depart from the custody of the holy things nor from the Church till all Divine Service be finished As touching the things belonging to the Church the laws prescribed to ours are these In our Church there shall be no Statues of the deceased either of Marble Brass Plaister or any other matter On Holy-days both Mass and Vespers shall be always said in solemn manner There shall likewise be solemn Vespers on the Vigils of Corpus Christi on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Consecration of our Church on the twenty third of May upon the Octave of which the same Office is repeated and within it is renewed unto us the joyful memory of the departure of our Father St. Philip viz. on the twenty sixth of May. Besides within the Octave of Corpus Christi the Vespers every day are to be sung Likewise every year on the twenty ninth of January is solemnly celebrated the Festival of the Holy Martyrs Papias Maurus and on the morning of that holy day Mass is said with a Deacon and Sub-deacon attending The Vespers are sung with Musick both on the Vigil and on the day it self Also on the Vigil the next days Matins and Lauds are to be said before Supper by our own Priests and Clergy that the due honor be paid to the Patrons of our Church and Congregation But on their Translation which falls on the eleventh of February tho the same be observed Mass and Vespers are not solemnly sung The Feast likewise of St. Gregory Pope and Patron of our Church on the twelfth of March is solemnly kept by us both in the first Vespers and at Mass We also particularly honour in our solemn Church Service those other Saints with whose sacred Relicks or some more eminent things belonging to them we have been enriched For we honour with a Double Office on the twelfth of May the holy Martyrs Nereus Achilleus and Domitilla On the ninth of July Patermuihius Copres and Alexander Martyrs who have an Altar dedicated to them with a Semi-double On the first of August the Martyr Pantaleon with a Semi-double On the twenty first of October St. Vrsula and her Fellow-virgins Martyrs with a Semi-double On the fourteenth of December Spiridion Bishop and Confessor with a Semi-double Now altho ours in saying the Ecclesiastical Offices except only the Vespers on Festival days do not frequent the Church yet they are wont to meet in Quire there when any eminent Anniversary is kept as on the day of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Candles on Ash-Wednesday the Principal Fast for Ashes on Palm-Sunday for Palmes on the usual days in the Week before Easter at Matins Mass and the other solemn Ceremonies of that time Also on the Feast of All Saints at Vespers besides those used likewise for the Dead and at the Matins too as in the morning at Mass Last of all on the night of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ at Matins and Mass After these Festivals now to speak of Funerals When any one of our Congregation dies every Priest is to say three Masses for the party deceased those who are not Priests shall repeat their Beads nine time and in the place where the dead body lies shall be said the Office of the Dead and if it be in the morning a solemn Mass if not it shall be said the next day a Deacon and Sub-deacon attending with six Candles lighted on the Altar and four Torches about the Corps The Office ended let two of those lights continue by it till the burial of it But if he died in absence from the house the Night-Office for the Dead shall be said by the Priests privately but Mass solemnly as before Every year likewise within the Octave of All Saints a solemn Mass shall be said for all those of our Congregation that are deceased Without the consent of the President and Deputies Mass shall not be said solemnly that is with a deacon and Sub-deacon attending for any strangers deceased neither shall they ordinarily grant it except he that died were a Prelate or of eminent rank and quality among the Laity or else very well deserving from our Congregation No Legacy shall be received by the Congregation for saying Mass for every unless perhaps there be some extraordinary reason and be the full consent of the Fathers of ten years standing As touching the things which seem fit to be here set down concerning Confessions we have these Orders That every week day one of the Priests chosen for this work is to tarry in the Church to hear Confessions but on Wednesday and Friday from morning till dinner time all are to attend there and likewise on Holy days Yet is none admitted to take Confessions without the consent of those Fathers that have lived ten years in the Congregation CHAP. III. Of the exceeding great benefit of the familiar Sermons as well in the Church as in the Oratory IN our Church every day except Saturday kept vacant four of our Preists unless it be a Holy-day on which some one only preacheth who are chosen out for this employment each in his turn fitting their expressions to the capacity principally of the vulgar and pretending to no pomp at all or vain popularity recreate the minds of their auditors with a very beneficial kind of discourse confirming their matter especially with examples and approved histories of the Saints For they are to avoid all difficult questions arguing of opinions and whatever better becomes the Schools than the Oratory Now he who is to take care of this business is wont at the appointed time to go down into the Church and among other things that are to be prepared to set an Hour-glass by the Preachers Seat and when he sees eight or ten auditors assembled to read some Book of wholsome precepts or else composed of the sayings and lives of the Saints and when fifteen or twenty at the most are present to give notice with a Bell at the usual hour upon the hearing whereof he that is first to preach hastens to the place and after he hath heard him that reads a while goes up into a wooden Seat some six or eight steps high turns the half-hour-glass which allots him his time and making no Preface begins his discourse upon that subject principally which was read out of the Book In the midst of his discourse the Keeper riseth up to give notice again with the same Bell tolled louder which done another who is to speak in the second place hies him thither and waits so long as till the first have finished his discourse In the same manner just the third succeeds the second and the fourth the third Neither is any one of these allowed above half an hour but when need is they are put in mind of making an end not only by a glass but by a little bell The Sermons being done a Sacred Hymn is sung with Musick