Elevation (liturgy)
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In Eastern and Western Christian liturgical practice, the elevation is a ritual raising of the consecrated Sacred Body and Blood of Christ during the celebration of the Eucharist. The term is applied
Elevation of the Host, with vision of St John of Matha, painting by Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1666
The Elevation of the Host by French painter Jean Béraud (1849–1936)
A Legionary priest during the elevation at an ECyD camp in Ohio.
A priest raises the chalice during the elevation in a celebration Ad orientem
Mass (liturgy)
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Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism
Painting of a 15th-century Mass
A priest offering the Mass at St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore
The elevation of the host began in the 14th century to show people the consecrated host.
A priest administers Communion during Mass in a Dutch field on the front line in October 1944.