3.- From the blessing of the Oils to the end of Mass 306 CEREMONIAL ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN RITE. PART I. OF SOLEMN HIGH MASS. CHAPTER I. RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY ECCLESIASTICS IN CHOIR. ARTICLE I.-The Mode of proceeding to Choir. 1. The Clergy vested in cassock and cotta should issue from the sacristy, two and two, united in such a manner, that the right shoulder of the one may come nearly in contact with the left of the other; and thus each two, maintaining an equal distance from the other, will proceed with measured pace, grave deportment, and heads uncovered, holding their berrettas, with both hands, below the breast. 2. Having arrived at the Altar they genuflect to the Cross, observing in this action, as well as in slowly and composedly arising, a simultaneous motion, which constitutes the uniformity and decorum of ceremonial observance. The second and third pair, and so on, in succession, will genuflect in the same place and manner, as the first; for which reason it is essential that those who follow should proceed at a slower pace than those more in advance, and thus enable them to genuflect without any appearance of hurry. After the genuflection, those who form each pair, face one another, mutually bow, and retire to their places at opposite sides of the choir, where they remain standing. үг B ARTICLE II.-The different postures to be maintained in Choir. 3. The postures to be maintained in choir are the standing, the sitting, and the kneeling. At the time proper for each of these, all should be in uniformity, no single individual interrupting the general regularity by retaining a peculiar position. Note.-The clergy will observe not to kneel at the Elevation of Low Masses which are said during choirtime, according to a decree of the "Sacred Congregation of Rites," March 5, 1667. They are also recommended to attend with a prompt obedience to every intimation from the Master of Ceremonies in all that regards the Divine Offices (June 4, 1817). 4. During High Mass, all retain the standing posture from the time the sacred Ministers go up to the Altar after the Confiteor, until they have said the Kyrie; from the intonation of the Gloria in excelsis, until the Celebrant and his Ministers are seated; while the Celebrant sings the Collects; while the Deacon sings the Gospel, until the Celebrant has terminated the Credo; during the singing of the Dominus vobiscum and the Oremus for the offertory; while the choir is being incensed; while the Celebrant sings the Preface, until in conjunction with the Ministers he has said the Sanctus; after the Elevation until the Priest has received the Precious Blood; and finally, from the Dominus vobiscum, at the Post-Communion, until the end of Mass. 5. The clergy should kneel from the beginning of Mass until the Celebrant and his Ministers ascend to the Altar; when the Deacon sings the Flectamus genua, observing to rise when the Subdeacon sings the Levate; while the Subdeacon sings in the Epistle, In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur, until the word infernorum inclusively; in Lent during the singing of the Adjuva nos, and at Pentecost during the Veni Sancte Spiritus; during the singing of the Et Verbum caro factum est, and the Et incarnatus est of the Credo in the Masses of Christmas and the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin; from the Sanctus until after the Elevation; and after the Indulgentiam is said by the |