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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) The concluding portion of the communion service.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
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- noun The concluding portion of the
communion service. - noun Roman Catholicism A
prayer or prayers which thepriest says atMass , after theablutions .
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Examples
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I do not have a clue what words to put together on his postcommunion canción.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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Another very useful resource for priests is provided by Fr Mark Withoos who posts a podcast each week with the chants for the Mass - collect, Epistle, Gospel, and postcommunion.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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After the Celebrant has communicated, Vespers are sung by the choir, in place of the _communion_ and postcommunion.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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a special oration is added after the ordinary postcommunion, with the invitation: "Humiliate capita vestra Deo".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Others attribute some of these omissions to the circumstance, that there is no communion; on this day, and therefore neither offertory or postcommunion; anciently however communion was given on this occasion, as is evident from the Gelasian sacramentary (See Bened.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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