Gremiale
The gremiale (from Latin gremium "lap") is an apron in the shape of a square, approximately 80 × 80 cm large cloth. It is worn by the bishop and is used to protect the liturgical vestments , especially when they are anointed with the holy oils . Because of its sometimes precious furnishings, the gremiale was also used for the ritual adornment of the bishop.
Committees have been documented since the end of the 13th century and were also worn by priests at high mass at that time. Until the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council , the gremiale was placed on the bishop's lap by the deacon when he sat on the cathedra at the pontifical ministry . This gremiale had to be made of silk. The bishop wore a linen panel on the following occasions:
- in the anointing of the head and hands in priestly ordination or in episcopal ordination
- in catechumen anointings , baptisms and confirmations
- at the donation of the ash cross on Ash Wednesday
- for washing feet in celebration of the Last Supper
- at the consecration of a new altar
- at the consecration
literature
- Joseph Braun : The Liturgical Paraments in the Present and Past. A manual of paramentics. 2nd, improved edition. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924 (Reprographischer Reprint. Verlag Nova und Vetera, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-936741-07-7 ), pp. 231-232.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Braun: The Liturgical Paraments in the present and past. 2nd, improved edition. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1924, p. 231.