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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Liturgy of the Mass |
 | | The celebrant of Mass must be in the state of grace, fasting from midnight, free of irregularity and censure, and must observe all the rubrics and laws concerning the matter (azyme bread and pure wine), vestments, vessels, and ceremony. |
 | | This high Mass is the norm; it is only in the complete rite with deacon and subdeacon that the ceremonies can be understood. |
 | | Only in churches which have no ordained person except one priest, and in which high Mass is thus impossible, is it allowed to celebrate the Mass (on Sundays and feasts) with most of the adornment borrowed from high Mass, with singing and (generally) with incense. |
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