Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To take part in a concelebration of the Eucharist.
  • intransitive verb To take part in (a Eucharist) as a joint celebrant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To celebrate together.
  • In the Roman Catholic Church, to repeat, as a newly ordained priest, the words of the mass along with the ordaining bishop, who celebrates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To celebrate together.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To celebrate along with others
  • verb To celebrate a mass along with the bishop who ordained him

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin concelebrāre, concelebrāt- : com-, com- + celebrāre, to celebrate; see celebrate.]

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Examples

  • Some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass versus populum, Holy Communion in the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favor of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass.

    Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform 2009

  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass.

    Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy" 2009

  • Clergy and religious are welcome to concelebrate or attend in choir.

    Silver Jubilee 2009

  • Mr. Haley asks: "As such, he could order his priests to concelebrate in the OF with the local bishop on Holy Thursday, could he not?"

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • I travelled over to St Albans this morning to concelebrate at with him and a number of other priest friends.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • I wonder if the younger generation of Dominicans will recover the 'habit' of wearing albs when they celebrate/concelebrate at Mass, or perform other liturgical functions, rather than simply placing their stoles over their habit.

    13 new Dominican novices in Ireland 2009

  • As such, he could order his priests to concelebrate in the OF with the local bishop on Holy Thursday, could he not?

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • Our Lady of the Annunciation was also the Church in which I celebrated my first Mass - with Fr Guy Nicholls as Assistant Priest - on Sunday 29 July 1984, before going over to Holy Innocents, Orpington to concelebrate at the ordination of my classmate Paul Hendricks who is now an Auxiliary Bishop in Southwark.

    To God who gave joy to my youth 2009

  • That means that its priest can NEVER be required to concelebrate any Mass or to celebrate NewMass, not even by Bishop Rifan.

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • About 60 priests of Zhengding concelebrated at the Mass but it is thought that many other priests from outside the province, who had been warned by the security forces not to concelebrate, were in the congregation.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

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