One of the pieces of seasonal paraphernalia that appears at All Souls and through November for the Masses of the Dead at the Oxford Oratory is a handsome and dignified black banner with a depiction in silver embroidery of the Cross and Suderium. Last August Shawn Tribe had a post on his Liturgical Arts Journal site about such banners, illustrated with nineteenth century examples from Italy which can be seen at Funerary Processional Banners with Memento Mori
The Roman Mass of Holy Thursday
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Compared to other ancient liturgies, the Roman Rite is unusual in treating
the Mass of Maundy Thursday as a feast of the Lord, vesting the clergy in
white,...
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