Addition
An additional mass is a holy mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite , which is celebrated at a side altar and takes place parallel to a mass that is celebrated in the same church at the main altar.
This fact goes back to the earlier obligation for priests to celebrate mass every day; However, concelebrations were not permitted in the rite of that time. In some places it was necessary to enable priests living there who were engaged in other professional activities besides their priestly service (teaching, administration of the diocese, etc.) to adapt the celebration to their daily schedule, so that parallel masses in the same church were inevitable. In parish chronicles one reads that it was customary in some places not only to celebrate the requiem at the high altar at particularly elaborate funerals, even in smaller churches, but at the same time to hold meals at the side altars by brought in foreign priests, mostly fathers from the nearest monastery. The mass that took place at the high altar was called the main mass . With the liturgical reform as a result of the Second Vatican Council , the addition lost its importance.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ bald; German church architecture of the 20th century; WBG-Verlag; 1991