sedilia

• “The design of the sedilia resembles that at St. Monans, Fife, and adjoining the sedilia is the piscina, the aperture of which is still visible.”

  Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

• “Close to the sedilia is a piscina decorated in a similar manner.”

  The Evolution of an English Town

• “New descriptions of ceremonial actions which readers thought would be helpful -- such as the manner in which the sacred ministers go to and from the sedilia -- have been included, as have other paragraphs elucidating matters, the appreciation of which when this book was originally in print one may reasonably have presumed.”

  The New 15th Edition of The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described

• “Remaining at the sedilia, the priest sings “Oremus”, the deacon sings “Flectamus genua”, and all kneel for a moment of silent prayer, then the deacon (no longer the subdeacon) sings “Levate”, and all rise for the collect.”

  Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers

• “The project will also include a new marble stand on which the tabernacle will be placed, a new wood ambo and sedilia, and other elements as well.”

  Renovations: Sacred Heart, Lombard, Illinois

• “The three major ministers go at once to the sedilia; the rubric does not say that they make a further reverence to the altar.”

  Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers

• “When the Solemn Prayers are finished, the major ministers go to the sedilia, and remove their maniples; the priest removes his black chasuble and subdeacon removes his black folded chasuble.”

  Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified

• “He lays the Corporal upon the altar, as at Solemn Mass, places the purificator next to it, and returns to the sedilia.”

  Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified

• “The deacon and subdeacon remain standing at the sedilia, while the deacon, together with four acolytes, goes to the sacristy to get the Cross.”

  Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified

• “It was in the form of a sedilium, the seat occupied by the officiating priest near the altar in the chancel of a church, being about six feet high and formed of three sedilia, with two pillars supporting three arches, which in turn supported the roof; in general form it was like a portion of the row of seats in a Roman amphitheatre.”

  From John O'Groats to Land's End

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