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At Downside they still wear fine Gothic Revival vestments and the servers apparelled amices and albs; and at Westminster they maintain the severe Roman tradition applied to the modern Roman liturgy, and Latin chasubles continue to be laid out for priests who want to use them.
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Yes indeed, the lack of amices is probably the worst problem of the modern Church, comparable only to putting stoles over chasubles.
H.E. Malcolm Ranjith installed as Archbishop of Colombo 2009
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Let's wear amices and stoles under chasubles and we will magically gain the True Faith.
H.E. Malcolm Ranjith installed as Archbishop of Colombo 2009
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Feel free to put in your plea for apparelled amices and albs instead.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Feel free to put in your plea for apparelled amices and albs instead.
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After the "Te Deum" had been sung five canons or their vicars, clad in albs and amices, entered by the great door of the choir, and proceeded towards the apse.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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[35] The amices are here called "head-pieces," as they were properly little hoods which could be turned up so as to cover the head, and were actually so worn out of doors.
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Nineteen albes and six amices, lacking all their apparel,
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And the chaplains of the Sainte-Chapelle in their gray amices; cum tunicis grisis!
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A religious then donned an alb and ground the wheat himself while two priests and two deacons, vested in albs and amices, kneaded the dough in cold water and baked the hosts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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