One of the traditional liturgical vestments for some priests, canons, abbots, bishops, ... to be tied at the waist with a cincture unless it is made so as to fit even without such.

Vestments add beauty, elegance, reverence and solemnity to the celebration. Priests wear vestments for liturgical functions as a sign of their office. ... Cincture. The cincture is a rope chord that ...

It may be white or may be the same liturgical colour as the other vestments. In the Graeco-Roman world, the cincture was like a belt. Spiritually, the cincture reminds the priest of the admonition of ...

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Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, appeared from the balcony of St. Peter's wearing one of the elements of the papal vestments that Francis had never worn: the mozzetta, the short red cape over the ...

While we cannot yet speak to Pope Leo XIV’s papacy, we can glean clues from his approach to his vestments. Pope Benedict XVI, 2005. THOMAS COEX/Getty Images. Pope John Paul II, 1978.

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — A Southington man is remembering Pope Francis after he spent decades designing ceremonial clothing for pontiffs. For 45 years, Brian Baker created vestments and ...

Vatican City: Vatican on Tuesday released first images of Pope Francis, showing him in casket with Vatican secretary of state praying over him. They showed him in a wooden casket, in red vestments ...

Sacred Vestments: Chasuble, Stole, Cassock, and More. The Chasuble: The Heart of Liturgical Vestments ... and the cincture (a white rope used to tighten the alb or surplice at the waist).

The cincture is a cord or belt worn around the waist over the alb. It serves the practical purpose of securing the alb and also represents the virtues of chastity, purity, and self-control. The act of ...

CNN looks at how fashion designer and artist, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, came up with the new look for the vestments to be worn inside Notre Dame since its reconstruction.

The cincture is a symbol of purity and, accordingly, the vesting prayer for the cincture reads: “Lord, gird me with the cincture of purity and extinguish my fleshly desires, that the virtue of ...