Pre-fair
Vormesse was the name of the first part of Holy Mass in the Roman rite of the Catholic Church , as it was common up to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council ( liturgy from 1962 ). The pre-mass was divided into the prayer service and the teaching service and was intended to prepare for the sacrificial mass .
The pre-mass has also been called the “ catechumen mass ” since the 11th century , because baptismal applicants ( catechumens ), in earlier centuries public penitents and guests who were also unbaptized were allowed to take part, but leave the church before the beginning of the sacrificial mass (“faithful mass”) had to.
Since the liturgical reform of Pope Paul VI. (1970), the corresponding parts are the Mass as opening and the Word designated ( "liturgy definition").
procedure
Prayer service:
- Step prayer
- Introitus
- Kyrie eleison
- Gloria (on certain days; it was omitted in Advent , in the period from Septuagesima to Maundy Thursday with the exception of holy days, as well as on weekdays on which Sunday mass was repeated and in funeral masses)
- Oratio (church prayer)
Teaching service:
- Lectio ( epistle )
- Intermediate chants ( graduals ) with alleluia songs during the year, graduals with tractus song during the pre-fasting and fasting period , two alleluia songs during the Easter period
- Sequence (at some festivals)
- Gospel
- Credo (on all Sundays, men's feasts, Marian feasts, feasts of the Apostles and Doctors of the Church and other feasts for which it was specifically prescribed)
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Andreas Jungmann : Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. Vol. 1, 1st edition Vienna 1948, 5th edition Nova & Vetera, Bonn and Herder, Vienna-Freiburg-Basel 1962, reproduction Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-936741-13-1 , pp. 342, 607.