Chapter and Conventual Mass

A conventual Mass (Latin missa conventualis, also: conventual Mass. ) is in the Roman Catholic Church the daily Holy Mass, which is celebrated in a monastery for the members of the Congregation, the Convention.

Since the High Middle Ages, the daily conventual office was an integral part of the order of life in monasteries and monastic written Kollegiatkapiteln and pins. It was next to the Tagzeiten Liturgy of the Hours for the Office of the monastic community, formed the highlight of which was celebrated on the third as Levites office where the deacon and subdeacon assisted the priests in monasteries of men and clerics pins.

In the 11th and 13th centuries a second conventual day was temporarily, starting from the Cluny Abbey, especially when Benedictines and Premonstratensians usual, the missa missa matutinalis next to the maior.

In the 19th and 20th century, after the secularization of many monasteries and convents and the increase in outside her convent charitable or pastorally active religious communities, sat the missa cantata by as a form of daily conventual Mass, the levitated missa sollemnis was on Sundays and feast days limited; the Capuchins, the conventual as missa LEcta was already common, similar to the Jesuits. In the 20th century, in special cases, the newly formed Community Fair was admitted as conventual.

The Second Vatican Council defined the concelebrating priests all of a Convention as a possible form of the conventual. If the daily conventual Mass in solemn form - for example with Gregorian chant - held, one calls this celebration of Mass as a constitutional office or monastic high office.