The credence should never be adorned with flowers or other ornaments.1 3 2 At The seat for the sacred Ministers at Mass should be a "bench," or "form" (scamnum), and not so many separate stools. Domestic chairs are forbidden. The bench should be furnished with green and purple baize-covers, -the former for ordinary occasions, the latter for penitential seasons. Masses for the Dead, and on Good Friday, the bench should be uncovered. The Officiant, at Vespers, if not occupying the principal place in choir, should sit on a rather tall stool, and have a light lectern before him; this latter should be veiled with the appropriate colour. The Cope-men will also sit on stools, or on two benches, one each side the choir, but facing the Altar. The colour of the carpet of the Sanctuary should be green, at least green should predominate: Crosses are not to be wrought upon it. The subject of these details is especially recommended to the attention of those Ecclesiastics who are called to the important work of building churches. For consultation on subjects connected with the construction and arrangements of churches the Manuale Episcoporum, given in the 5th vol. of វ 1 "Vasa quoque argentea ampla, et magnifica, si haberentur, ad ornatum adhiberi possent, maxime Celebrante aliquo S. R. E. Cardinali sed neque Crux, neque Sanctorum imagines, in ea ponendæ sunt." (Carem. Epis. lib. i. cap. xii. n. 20.) : 2 Carem. Epis. ibid. n. 2. 4 Baldeschi, in loc. 6 Manuale Epis. in loc. 3 S. R. C. 17 Sept. 1822. 5 Cærem. Epis. ibid. n. 16. Merati and Gavantus, will be found of great value, and from its being in alphabetical order, may be readily referred to. The trouble (not unattended with much satisfaction and encouragement) which the Translator and Compiler has bestowed on these pages will be more than compensated if they shall tend, in any degree, to the two objects with which the work was undertaken :—the first, to secure, as far as possible, identity of practice and arrangement in our several churches; the second, to bring them, in their ceremonial provisions, into more complete accordance with the rule of Rome-the centre both of doctrinal unity, and of that ritual uniformity, which is incidentally connected with it. ST. EDMUND'S COLLEGE, Feast of SS. Peter and Paul, 1853. CONTENTS. 78 OF SOLEMN VESPERS. ib. ib. ib. CHAPTER IV.-Mass sung in presence of a Bishop in his own diocese V.-Solemn Mass for the Dead, sung in presence of the Bishop 128 CHAPTER VII.-Vespers sung by a Bishop in his own diocese VIII.-Vespers sung in presence of a Bishop in his own diocese 140 CHAPTER X.-Mass in presence of great Prelates XI.-The Episcopal visitation of parishes |