does only the celebrant priest/bishop wear cope, or is there something like “concelebration of LotH” in which other attending clerics may wear one as well?
does only the celebrant priest/bishop wear cope, or is there something like “concelebration of LotH” in which other attending clerics may wear one as well?
does only the celebrant priest/bishop wear cope, or is there something like “concelebration of LotH” in which other attending clerics may wear one as well?
There’s a series in the Archdiocese of Edmonton called Nothing More Beautiful that combines Cathedral Vespers with a catechesis by a bishop. The Archbishop has thus far always been the celebrant, and he is the only priest or bishop vested (in a cope). There is most often another bishop there (or several) that are not wearing any vestments. Usually there’s one deacon to assist with the incensing (in Dalmatics) and a priest-MC (in cassock/surplice), and there’s altar servers in albs.
Other than that, nobody else is in vestments.
When we celebrate a more solemn Vespers in the Seminary, only the celebrant is wearing a cope (and altar servers in albs), nobody else is vested.
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