Introit

The Introit is taken from Sedulius, a contemporary of St Jerome, some of whose hymns the Church has incorporated in her Office.

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary John 2009

At the beginning, an Introit is sung, followed by a Collect (there is no Kyrie), an Epistle, a Gradual, and a Gospel.

Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms 2009

The Introit is joyful, and the Tract is too, but it is shockingly long, while the Gospel itself is short.

What We Learn from Music 2009

The Introit is taken from Sedulius, a contemporary of St Jerome, some of whose hymns the Church has incorporated in her Office.

27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009

Then he ascends the altar steps -- praying as he goes -- and says the Introit, which is some portion of the Holy Scripture suitable to the feast of the day.

Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead

The Introit was a whole psalm sung with the Gloria

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The formulary of a Mass consists of the liturgical texts that constitute the variable parts of the Mass, namely the Introit,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

And just as little has the priority been established of the different kinds of interpolations, whether that in the Introit is the oldest, or that in the Gloria, or the Kyrie, or in any other part of the Mass; for that very reason it is not known yet which of the various designations (Versus, Prosae, Tropi, or Laudes) is the oldest and most original.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The second is His nativity in time, and the spiritual birth, whereby Christ rises "as the day-star in our [Vulg.: 'your'] hearts" (2 Pet. 1: 19), and on this account the mass is sung at dawn, and in the "Introit" we say:

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

"Introit": according to Ps. 49: 23: "The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me; and there is the way by which I will show him the salvation of God": and this is taken for the most part from the

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas