Word: nuptials
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...Which are both received by the laity in Protestant and Anglican churches. Since the Middle Ages, the consecrated wine is consumed only by the priest in Roman Catholicism, although the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council now allow it to the laity on special occasions such as nuptial masses...
Married. Princess Isabelle, 32, eldest daughter of French Pretender Comte de Paris; and Count Friedrich Carl Schön-born-Buchheim, 26, heir to 12,000 acres of Austrian forest; in a civil ceremony, followed the next day by a nuptial Mass in the royal chapel of Dreux, France...
...John Kennedy's funeral and steadied the President's widow beside the grave in Arlington National Cemetery. Says Robert Kennedy: "The President felt closer to him than to any other clergyman." Cushing, in turn, regards himself as a "spiritual father" to the Kennedy family. He celebrated the nuptial Mass at the wedding of Jack and Jackie, baptized Bobby's son Chris, and about once a month visits ailing old Joe "to tell him newsy things...
...only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair. Then, slipping a circlet of diamonds on Liz's finger, he she wed. That night, said Liz, "we sat and talked and giggled and cried until 7 in the morning...
...altar the wine and the hosts to be consecrated. The Canon, the most ancient prayer of the Mass, would remain in Latin; but rather than being recited silently, it would be said aloud, as is the custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form of wine as well as bread. And the Mass would conclude not with the reading of the beginning of St. John's Gospel, a late Renaissance accretion, but with a final blessing of the people by the priest. Into...