Note (return) — CHAP. VI.

After the Celebrant has communicated, Vespers are sung by the choir, in place of the communion and postcommunion. They consist of the anthem Alleluja repeated three times before and after the short psalm Laudate Dominion omnes gentes etc.; of the anthem Vesper autem sabbati, which the Celebrant commences and the choir continues; of the Magnificat127 and in fine of the prayer which is chanted by the Card. Celebrant. While the anthem before the Magnificat is sung, the Pope puts incense into the thurible; the celebrant incenses the crucifix and the altar, and is incensed by the deacon, and the incensing continues as after the offertory at high-mass (See p. 21) At the Gloria Patri the deacon, having incensed the Card, priests, bows his head in the middle of the chapel, and then proceeds to incense the Card, deacons. After the prayer; Ite Missa est, Alleluja, Alleluja, is sung; and the choir answers, Deo gratias Alleluja, Alleluja: the Pope gives the usual blessing, the Celebrant publishes the indulgence of thirty years and this beautiful service terminates. In the sacristy His Holiness puts on a mozzetta of white (instead of red) damask, and wears it during the whole of Easter week: His shoes also are white. The Cardinals put on red mantellette and mozzette over their purple cassocks; these they afterwards change for others of scarlet.