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| | The Holy Mass |
 | | or almost 2000 years, The Mass grew from a core of rituals that didn't change and that, for whatever else was varied from place to place, evoked reverence because it was offered as and understood to be the ceremony of the Unbloody Sacrifice. |
 | | Before the high Mass, and with a server on his left bearing the holy water, the priest, wearing a cope, comes to the foot of the altar, intoning the anthem, below, and sprinkles holy water on the altar 3 times, then on himself, then on the servers, and finally on the faithful. |
 | | All Souls, in Requiem, Funeral Masses; except in Lent and in Masses for the dead when the Alleluia is omitted and a Tract sung instead. |
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