Note. -- When the sacristy is ar a distance from the altar, the torches are kept at the credence or abacus, and here also the thurifer places the thurible when not in use during the Mass.
HIGH MASS OF REQUIEM
Prepare black vestments for the sacred ministers in the sacristy, and on the altar light six candles and place the missal open on the missal-stand.
For the Absolutions the processional cross should be on the Epistle side of the sanctuary and the cope for the celebrant.
The thurifer brings the thurible for the Offertory and retires after the celebrant has been incensed. no one else is incensed. At the Elevation the thurifer again brings the thurible and gives it to the subdeadon for incensing the Host. During the Mass the thurifer can remain at the credence, kneeling during the Collects and from the Elevation to the Pax Domini. At the Post-Communion he retires to the sacristy to fetch the thurible, and during the Last Gospel brings it to the sanctuary for the Absolutions.
The acolytes carry their candles in and out and assist without candles at the Gospel. The server who carries the holy water stoup should be at the credence for the the Absolution.
After the Last Gospel the sacred ministers retire to the bench to lay aside their maniples, and the celebrant puts on the cope, the subdeacon takes the processional cross, and the procession to the catafalque proceeds as follows:
The server with the holy water to the right of the thurifer precedes the cross, the subdeacon with the cross and two acolytes woth the candles, then the clergy, and last the deacon with the celebrant, the master of ceremonies or server carrying the Rituale. All the servers genuflect in passing before the altar. In the order the indicated above the subdeacon and acolytes pass
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