Catholic Word of the Day: ALB, 06-14-10

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A full length white linen vestment secured with a cincture used at Mass. An adaptation of the undertunic of the Greeks and Romans of the fourth century. It is blessed before being worn. It symbolizes the garment in which Christ was clothed by Herod and the purity of the soul with which the Sacrifice of the Mass should be offered. "Make me white O Lord and cleanse my heart that, made white by the Blood of the Lamb, I may be able to serve Thee" is said by the priest as he puts on the alb. It is also the white garment worm by the newly baptized person from Holy Saturday to the Sunday after Easter, Low Sunday, sometimes called the "Sunday in white." (Etym. Latin albus, white.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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I never knew about the white garment being worn by the newly baptized for an entire week. Apparently, that practice is discontinued.

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Mass Salutation	Old Law	Nazarene
Subjectivism	Papal Coronation	Apostle
Subdiaconate	Mala Fide	Spiritual Espousals
Baptistery	Didache (Teaching of the twelve Apostles)	Aglipayanism
Tabernacle	Council of Trullo	Mortuarium
Repairing Scandal	Auriesville	New Law
Perfectae Caritatis	Violence	Tertian
Rule	Corpus Christi	Czestochowa
Solicitude	Evil Desire	Hexameron
Quadragesimo Anno	Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem	Latin Architecture
Apocalypse	Possessive Instinct	Alb

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For more vestments, see

Sacred Vestments

This is, in partuiclar, an alb and cinctures: