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I remember a question about this before but I can’t find it.

At the Mass there is the presider in Ordinary green, noticable, but who was that other guy standing up there all in white?

A deacon? I thought deacons would read the Gospel but he did not.

What are the distintive dress of different offices and roles?
 
caleb83 said:
I remember a question about this before but I can’t find it.

At the Mass there is the presider in Ordinary green, noticable, but who was that other guy standing up there all in white?

A deacon? I thought deacons would read the Gospel but he did not.

What are the distintive dress of different offices and roles?
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A deacon would have worn an alb and a green stole, worn left shoulder to right hip – or he could have worn a green (or white with green braid) dalmatic over his alb, the dalmatic being a vestment similar to the chasuble but with sleeves.

It’s possible he was an acolyte or an adult altar server simply vested in an alb.
 
Here is another alb picture.

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yeah that was it
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Was he wearing a stole with the alb? A regular stole would mean he was a priest concelebrating; if he wore no stole at all I’d assume him to be an adult altar server or acolyte.
 
or, in this parish, he could have been an adult altar server (male) wearing an alb
he would not have been standing at the altar, he would have been doing what servers do

if there are several priests concelebrating the principal celebrant may wear the chasuble, and the others wear an alb and stole
 
it was just one white robe that looks like the picture above. I don’t know what a stole is, but he wore one thing.

The other wore the same I think, but with a green around and over his shoulders, chasuble? Then there were young servers in a more complex dress than the others. But the guy in white was the oldest and had the simplest dress, no sash
 
If he had a green strip of cloth over the left shoulder, pinned at the right hip so it makes a diagonal stripe front and back, he was the deacon, and the strip his stole; he should be, if the parish owns one, wearing a green tunic (Dalmatic) over it

If he had a green strip of cloth over both shoulders, both ends hanging in front, he was a minimally vested concelebrant, wearing just alb and stole. (Concelebrants are supposed to be fully vested in a serape-like garment called a chasuble, worn over the alb and stole.)

If he was wearing a strip of green over just his left arm, he’s a subdeacon… but that’s unlikely. (and he’s supposed to have a short tunic, called a tunicle, over it the alb anyway).
 
I wish I knew more about this.

I remember at an ordination mass the Bishop’s Master of ceremonies (MC) was wearing what I believe was a long very lacy all white surplice. He was a deacon but was not dressed like the other deacons invloved.

Does anyone know if the MC is always in white. Am I remembering a black garment under the white surplice?:confused:
 
Am I remembering a black garment under the white surplice?

That’s called a cassock.
 
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I wish I knew more about this.

I remember at an ordination mass the Bishop’s Master of ceremonies (MC) was wearing what I believe was a long very lacy all white surplice. He was a deacon but was not dressed like the other deacons invloved.

Does anyone know if the MC is always in white. Am I remembering a black garment under the white surplice?:confused:
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He might have been dressed in a black cassock and white surplice. A surplice, by definition, goes over something (from the late Latin superpelliceum, from super, “over” and pellis, “fur”).

Or he might have been wearing a very fancy lace decorated alb such as the one I see worn by our episocopal vicar.
 
Chancellor said:
I wish I knew more about this.

I remember at an ordination mass the Bishop’s Master of ceremonies (MC) was wearing what I believe was a long very lacy all white surplice. He was a deacon but was not dressed like the other deacons invloved.
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he was in choir dress, and if a priest, was not concelebrating, and if a deacon, not taking the deacon’s part either. if you are talking about the nifty white plain or lace “top” over a black full-length cassock
 
Thanks to puzzleannie and phieme

I think you are both right. He was definately wearing the surplice over something else.
 
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