Cincture

The cincture or cingulum (from the Latin cingulum "belt" ) is the belt, with the alb being pursed carrying the Catholic clergy as a liturgical undergarment in worship. Religious also wear a cincture around her habit and clerics to their cassock. The cincture is from the worldly clothes of antiquity.

The cincture of Religious, a simple knitting or a leather belt or be connected as a fabric band of the Scapular. In the cassock of the clergy, it is a wide band of fine fabric in the dignity colors. So wearing a priest, a black, a bishop, a violet, a cardinal, a scarlet and the Pope a white cincture.

For the interpretation of the Zingulums in the liturgy fell back on the biblical symbolism of self- Gürtens: The belt is a coming of God force cf. Ps 18.33 EU: "God has girded me with strength, he led me down a path. obstacle without " further the girding expresses readiness, see Ex 12:11 EU: " but if ye shall eat it: your hips girded, shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste,! It is the Passover of the Lord, " Eph 6,14 EU: " Gird yourselves with truth "and Luke 12.35-36 EU: " Burn Sets your belt does not open and let your lamps! Be like people waiting for their master's return, which is at a wedding, and it open as soon as he comes and knocks. " The cincture is humility towards the billowing robe mean ( cf. Seckauer Missal, 12th century) or, as it holds the alb as a symbol of baptism, a request for preservation of baptismal grace to express. In the Middle Ages next came the request for control of impulses, as in the Sacramentary of Tours, 9-10. Century.

With the cincture fortified stole

Trappist praying in his cell

Default node for the simple cincture to Albe

Cingulum in white and gold

Cingulum in purple and gold ( detailed description of the tassels )