A Roman Catholic or Anglo-Catholic mass with full ceremonial, including music and incense and typically having the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
(罗马天主教或英国国教高教会派的)大弥撒(仪式全,有音乐和焚香,一般有执事和副执事协助)
Example sentencesExamples
The details of the Mass are yet to be decided - whether it will be an intensely solemn High Mass or the more simple one requested by the last Pope, John Paul I.
The Kyrie-Christe eleison, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei are repeated three times in the course of a Low Mass and in addition, in the course of a High Mass, the censer is swung three times to waft incense over altar, servers and people.
On the Sunday after Christmas, there were just two sopranos and three basses in the choir at High Mass.
I am almost certain that it is Anglican, but I was somewhat confused by the noticeboard outside advertising High Mass and Low Mass, and, inside the smell of incense.
Over the past seven days, more than 600 people came to hear Pope John Paul sing a High Mass.
Definition of High Mass in US English:
High Mass
nounhī ˈmas
(in the Roman Catholic Church) formerly, a mass with full ceremonial, including music and incense and typically having the assistance of a deacon and subdeacon.
(罗马天主教或英国国教高教会派的)大弥撒(仪式全,有音乐和焚香,一般有执事和副执事协助)
Example sentencesExamples
The Kyrie-Christe eleison, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei are repeated three times in the course of a Low Mass and in addition, in the course of a High Mass, the censer is swung three times to waft incense over altar, servers and people.
I am almost certain that it is Anglican, but I was somewhat confused by the noticeboard outside advertising High Mass and Low Mass, and, inside the smell of incense.
The details of the Mass are yet to be decided - whether it will be an intensely solemn High Mass or the more simple one requested by the last Pope, John Paul I.
Over the past seven days, more than 600 people came to hear Pope John Paul sing a High Mass.
On the Sunday after Christmas, there were just two sopranos and three basses in the choir at High Mass.