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An exposition of the holy ornaments and ceremonies which the Church uses at Mass Collected from several authors. And now publish'd for the common good of all Catholicks, and others.
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE Holy Ornaments AND Ceremonies WHICH THE CHURCH USES AT MASS Collected from several Authors And now publish'd for the common good of all Catholicks and others London Printed for N. T. 1686. HEre followeth a brief Signification of the Priestly Ornaments us'd at Mass as also a short Declaration of the Ceremonies and Holy Mysteries of that Divine Sacrifice for Comfort and Instruction of the Church thereby to renew in our minds a grateful memory of those several dolorous passages of the bitter Passion of our Divine Redeemer who did suffer so much in satisfaction of his Eternal Father's Justice for our Sins Of the Holy ORNAMENTS AND CEREMONIES Which the Church useth at MASS Of the Holy Altar and what it signifies TO begin with the holy Altar where the Victim for the Sacrifice of Redemption of all the World is offer'd It signifies Mount Calvary whereon Jesus Christ the only Son of God and second Person of the holy Trinity our only Saviour was Crucified upon a reproachful Cross Which very word of Altar we also find to have relation unto Sacrifice which must necessarily be offer'd to God in that Church where his true Faith is profess'd And therefore this name of Altar is mention'd by S. Paul Heb. 13.10 We have an Altar whereof they have not power to eat who serve the Tabernacle And 1 Cor. 9.13 and S. Mar. 5.24 All which is a warrant abundantly sufficient for us to use this Name of Altar Which also represents the Table whereon our Redeemer did Celebrate his Last Supper with his Disciples the night before his bitter Death and Passion Of the Altar-Cloaths THe Linnen for the Altar or the Altar-cloaths are to be very pure and white they representing the purity of our blessed Saviour's Humanity free from all stain of Sin or disorder'd Passion That Linnen is also to be bless'd to signifie the great Sanctity of the Life of Jesus Christ which we must endeavour the best we can to imitate Of the lighted Candles on the Altar THe lighted Candles upon he Altar admonish us according to S. Luke to be ready in imitation of the wise Virgins with the Oyl of Good works in our Lamps of True Faith and to expect at the pronouncing these sacred and operative words of Consecration the real and true substantial presence of that our Divine and Heavenly Spouse Mat. 5.16 who requires the light of our Good Works so to shine before Men as thereby they may be moved to glorifie the Father who is in Heaven The two Candles signifie the two Testaments of holy Scripture the Old and New They also signifie the light of Faith revealed to the Jew and Gentile And they advertise us of the great splendour both of Faith of Good Life and Works requir'd in the Celebrating of so high and dreadful a Mystery Of the Cross and Crucifix THe Cross or Crucifix is the principal Ornament upon the Altar which ought never to be wanting at the Celebration of the Mass It betokens our Blessed Redeemer's Victory over Death and is placed at the midst of the Altar most in view to represent to our mind the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ which is there chiefly to be confider'd and piously meditated in that holy Sacrifice Of the Chalice THe Chalice doth represent the Cup wherein our B. Saviour did Consecrate his most precious Blood Mat. 26. And it puts us in mind of his Sacred Passion our B. Saviour himself so calling it The Chalice of his Passion Of the Patten THe Patten serves for the use of the Consecrated Body of our Lord as the Chalice doth for his most precious Blood And as it covers the top of the Chalice it represents the stone which was roll'd against the door of the holy Sepulchre Mark 15. Of the Corporal THe white Linnen Corporal upon which is Consecrated the most precious Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ doth represent to us that white and pure Syndon wherein Joseph of Arimathea involved his most sacred Corps before it was bury'd The clean and bright purity whereof doth aptly admonish all such as by the holy Communion receive and harbour within their Breasts this sacred and most precious Body of Jesus Christ to be chaste and clean both of Body and Soul and endu'd with true purity of intention Of the Vail THe Vail doth cover both Patten and Chalice all round about and it represents to us the Handkerchief wherewith our Saviours most Divine Head was covered when he was laid in the Sepulchre whereof mention is made John 20. S. Peter having discover'd it in the Sepulchre And he there beheld the Linnen lying apart and the Handkerchief which had been wrapp'd about his head Of the several colours which the Church useth for Ornament and the meaning of them THe Prophet Ezekiel in his 6th chap. speaking of the splendour of the Church seems to place a great part of her glory in the various colours of her beautiful Robes Which variety of mystical colours simbolizing with the several virtues of the glorious Saints doth greatly adorn and beautify this holy Spouse and is to us a motive and great encouragement to imitate those holy virtues which by these various colours used in the Church are so fitly propos'd to our view Nor was it without great reason that God in the old Law appointed those four different colours for the Priests and Churches Ornaments which were the colour bissmus that is a yellow colour like to that of raw Silk The second was purpureus the Purple colour The third was byacinthinus that is a violet red blew or violet purple The fourth was coccineus that is a Scarlet or Crimson colour And as these different colours had their several mystical meaning for the Peoples instruction so I doubt not but the impartial Reader will confess no less to be contain'd in the meaning of these colours which the Church inspired by the Holy Ghost hath appointed to be us'd in the Law of Grace for the Ornament of Christ's Holy Church and for the Priests Vestments belonging to the same as by this brief Declaration it will appear What the White Colour used by the Church means THe white colour is used upon the Feasts of Angels Confessors and Virgins To represent to us the imitation of their holy Chastity and Saintly Purity As also upon the solemn Feasts of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour upon the Resurrection Ascension Corpus Christi and other the chiefest Feasts of the greated Mysteries of our Faith which are to be celebrated in the white colour of symbolizing Joy as testifie our Saviours glorious spendor at his Transfiguration the two Angels in white who denounced his Resurrection and the joyful white of his Saints in Heaven Apoc. 3.4 and Apoc. cap. 4. vers 4. What is signified by the Red Colour REd is the scarlet dye of our Blessed Saviour's Passion and is the proper colour for the Churches Ornaments upon the Feasts of the holy Cross
Mind to the Mystery assigned while the Decad is saying and raising correspondent Affection in the Will such as the Devotion and necessity of each one shall suggest For example in the first part of Joy and Thanksgiving for the coming of our Redeemer and the great work of our Redemption In the second of Compassion for the suffering of our Lord and Contrition for our sins which were the cause of them In the third of Exaltation of the Glory of our Saviour and his B. Mother and hope through the Merits of his Passion and her Intercession to be made partakers of Glory with them He that shall say the Rosary with this attention of Mind and affection of Will shall undoubtedly give much Glory to God and reap much benefit to his own Soul which was the Intention of Pope PIUS the Fifth a most pious Son of St. Dominick in ordering and is the endeavour at present of one of the meanest among the Sons of so glorious a Father in publishing the Meditations and Prayers as they are set down in the following Method The Joyful Mysteries assigned for Mundays and Thursdays through the Year and Sundays in Advent and after Epiphany till Lent The First Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate on this Mystery how the Angel Gabriel saluted our Blessed Lady with the Title of Full of grace and declared unto her the Incarnation of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Then say Our Father c. once Hail Mary Ten times OVR Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen HAil Mary full of Grace our Lord is with thee Blessed art thou amongst Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for Us Sinners now and in the hour of our Death Amen The Prayer O Holy Mary Queen of Virgins by the most High Mystery of the Incarnation of thy beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ by which our Salvation was so happily begun obtain for us by thy Intercession light to know this so great Benefit which he hath bestowed upon us vouchsafing in it to make himself our Brother and thee his own most beloved Mother our Mother also Amen The Second Mystery The Meditation LEt us Contemplate on this Mystery how the Blessed Virgin Mary understanding from the Angel that her Cousin St. Elizabeth had conceived went with hast into the Mountains of Judea to visit her and remained with her three Months The Prayer O Holy Virgin most spotless Mirrour of Humility by that exceeding Charity which moved thee to visit thy Holy Cousin St. Elizabeth obtain for us by thy Intercession that our hearts may be so visited by thy most Holy Son that free from all sin we may praise him and give him thanks for ever Amen The Third Mystery The Meditation LEt us Contemplate on this Mystery how the Blessed Virgin Mary when the time of her Delivery was come brought forth our Redeemer Christ Jesus at Midnight and laid him in a Manger because there was no room for him in the Innes in Bethlehem The Prayer O Most pure Mother of God by thy Virginal and most joyful Delivery by which thou gavest unto the World thy only Son our Saviour we beseech thee obtain for us by thy Intercession Grace to lead so pure and Holy a Life in this World that we may worthily sing without ceasing both Day and Night the Mercies of thy Son and his Benefits to us by thee Amen The Fourth Mystery The Meditation LET us Contemplate in this Mystery how the most Blessed Virgin Mary on the day of her Purification presented the Child Jesus in the Temple where Holy Simeon giving thanks to God with great Devotion received him into his arms The Prayer O Holy Virgin most admirable Mistress and Pattern of Obedience who didst present in the Temple the Lord of the Temple obtain for us by thy beloved Son that with holy Simeon and devout Anna we may praise and glorisie him for ever Amen The Fifth Mystery The Meditation LET Us Contemplate in this Mystery how the Blessed Virgin Mary having lost without any fault of hers her beloved Son in Jerusalem she sought him for the space of three days and at length found him the third day in the Temple in the midst of the Doctors disputing with them being of the age of twelve years The Prayer MOst blessed Virgin more than Martyr in thy suffering and yet the comfort of such as are afflicted by that unspeakable Joy wherewith thy Soul was ravished in finding thy beloved Son in the Temple in the midst of the Doctors disputing with them obtain of him for us so to seek him and to find him in the Holy Catholick Church that we may never be separated from him Amen Salve Regina HAil Holy Queen Mother of Mercy our Life our Sweetness and our Hope to Thee do we cry poor banished Sons of Eve to Thee do we send up our sighs mourning and weeping in this Valley of Tears turn then most gracious Advocate thy Eyes of Mercy towards Us and after this our Exile ended shew unto Us the blessed Fruit of thy Womb Jesus O most clement most pious and most sweet Virgin Mary Vers Pray for Vs Holy Mother of God â„Ÿ That we may be made worthy of the Promises of Christ Let us pray HEar O merciful God the prayer of thy Servants that we who meet together in the Society of the most Holy Rosary of the B. Virgin Mother of God by her Intercession may by Thee be deliver'd from the dangers that continually hang over us Amen The Dolorous or sorrowful Mysteries for Tuesdays and Fridays through the Year and the Sundays in Lent The First Mystery The Meditation LET us Contemplate in this Mystery how our Lord Jesus was so afflicted for Us in the Garden of Gethsemani that his Body was bathed in a Bloody Sweat which ran trickling down in great drops unto the ground Our Father Hail Mary as before The Prayer MOst Holy Virgin more than Martyr by that ardent Prayer which thy beloved Son poured forth unto his Father in the Garden vonchsafe to intercede for us that our passions reduced to the obedience of Reason we may always and in all things conform and subject our selves to the Will of God Amen The Second Mystery The Meditation LEt us Contemplate on this Mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ was most cruelly scourged in Pilate's House the number of the Stripes they gave him being above five thousand As it was revealed by St. Briget The Prayer O Mother of God over-flowing Fountain of Patience by those stripes thy only and most beloved Son vouchsafed to suffer for us obtain of him for us Grace that we may know how to mortifie our rebellious senses