Rites and Masses

List of Rites

There are twenty-two Rites within the Roman Catholic Church. They are...

Abyssinian Albanian Ambrosian Armenian Bulgarian Chaldean Coptic Georgian Greek Hungarian Italo-Albanian

Malabar Malankar Maronite Melkite Mozarabic Roman Rumanian Russian Ruthenian Serbian Syrian

List of Masses

There are thirteen Masses within the Roman rite. They are...

• the Missa Cantata, or sung Mass (or "High Mass") sung by a priest and a choir
• the Gregorian Masses (a series celebrated for thirty consecutive days for the release of a soul in purgatory)
• the Low (the "usual Mass," like the ones I assisted Father Whelan with)
• the Pontifical (said by a bishop)
• the Solemn (sung by a priest with acolytes, choir, deacon, and sub-deacon)
• the Votive (priest's choice of intentions)
• the Missa Pro Populo (said by pastors by Church law eighty-eight times a year)
• the Mass of a Saint
• the Mass of Exposition
• the Mass of Reposition
• the Mass of the Catechumens (the first half of Mass, before the big moment)
• the Mass of the Faithful (second half)
• the Mass of the Presanctified (Part of the Good Friday Mass during the Passion of Christ)