Eucharist in the Divine Liturgy or Mass. As chant it was connected with the ritual act of Christian communion. According to Dimitri Conomos the koinonikon...

wine, reenacting the Last Supper Communion (chant), the Gregorian chant that accompanies this rite First Communion, a ceremony in some Christian traditions...

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the...

Splendoribus Sanctorum, the communion chant for the propers of Christmas midnight mass, sung during the distribution of holy communion Acta Sanctorum, an encyclopedic...

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; Latin: cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring...

The chant In splendoribus sanctorum is the communion chant for the propers of Christmas midnight mass, sung during the distribution of holy communion. This...

Communions are melodically more simple. Some Masses have two Communion chants. Some Communion chants appear in other services as the Offertory chant,...

Archon Protopsaltes. Large parts of the monodic chant sung in several current traditions of Orthodox Chant are transcriptions of his compositions. He wrote...

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Formally founded in 1867 in London...

earlier in the evening. In Splendoribus Sanctorum is used for the Communion chant during traditional Catholic midnight mass. Lutherans often observe...

Full communion is a communion or relationship of full agreement among different Christian denominations or Christian individuals that share certain essential...

Protestant communion. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers...

First Communion is a ceremony in some Christian traditions during which a person of the church first receives the Eucharist. It is most common in many...

Ambrosian chant, but they are used widely in Gregorian chant as well. They may be used during Mass, for the Introit, the Offertory or the Communion. They...

Chant Noël: Chants for the Holiday Season is a compilation album of plainsong sung in Latin by the Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo De Silos under the...

Common Prayer Burial Service ("I heard a voice from heaven...") and the communion chant from Requiem (Lux aeterna). The work lasts about 40 minutes. Score...

An extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church is, under the 1983 Code of Canon Law, "an acolyte, or another of Christ's faithful...

Sacramental bread, also called Communion bread, Communion wafer, Sacred host, Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host (Latin: hostia, lit. 'sacrificial...

Sacramental wine, Communion wine, altar wine, or wine for consecration is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist...

church, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via local synods...

related churches to store the consecrated hosts of the sacrament of Holy Communion. It resembles the shape of a chalice but its bowl is more round than conical...

validity of only the first three ecumenical councils. The Oriental Orthodox communion is composed of six autocephalous national churches: the Coptic Orthodox...

reverently consume the Host immediately. While Communion is distributed, singing of an appropriate approved chant or hymn is recommended, to emphasize the essentially...

Anglican chant, also known as English chant, is a way to sing unmetrical texts, including psalms and canticles from the Bible, by matching the natural...

Alleluia is used as a liturgical chant in which that word is combined with verses of scripture, usually from the Psalms. This chant is commonly used before the...

Mozarabic chant (also known as the Hispanic chant, Old Hispanic chant, Old Spanish chant, or Visigothic chant) is the liturgical plainchant repertory...

resurrection in the Lord's Supper, they profess that it signifies life in communion with Christ and look forward to His coming in glory". Within the fixed...

the chanting of Terce, during which he received the obedience of the cardinals, bishops, and abbots. While the psalms of Terce were being chanted, he...

invented Gregorian chant by receiving the chant melodies through divine intervention of the Holy Spirit, scholars now believe that the chant bearing his name...

Ambrosian chant (also known as Milanese chant) is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Ambrosian rite of the Roman Catholic Church, related to but...