Maniple (vestment)

The maniple (from Latin Manipulus ) is an after the Second Vatican Council is no longer prescribed and therefore become uncommon liturgical garment Roman Catholic priest during the celebration. Chance of maniple is also used by Lutheran pastors, for example, in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

Form, carrying method and use

The maniple is strip-shaped and is worn on the left wrist, that is placed over the arm so that the ends hang down the same length. In its form it resembles so the longer, because over the shoulders worn stole.

The maniple can be used by the Catholic clergy ( subdeacon, deacon, priest and bishop ). If it is needed, then it is the priest, deacon - if one is there, otherwise he applies it to himself - presented by the guilty plea. In the Tridentine rite, the priest places it in front of the stages of prayer; possibly helps a deacon.

With the maniple each case the left hand was veiled, if you so liturgical handed ( chalice, paten, empty monstrance ) and the liturgical books.

The maniple is, like the chasuble the liturgical colors canon.

History

Originally the maniple was a kind of welding, hand or napkin. It was later made ​​him an etiquette cloth that gave the Roman empire by dropping the sign for the start of the circus games. Whether it's as a label cloth, that was taken as a sign of fine manners of the clergy of the early Christians, or whether this was used as the insignia from the beginning, is not fully understood.

By no later than the 11th century, however, the maniple was final rank insignia of the higher clergy ( subdeacon, deacon, priest, bishop ). Subdeacons were invested in their consecration to the maniple. Already at this time he had lost its original meaning and had become a mere trim. He was - as sprung from a napkin - as a liturgical symbol of effort, work and sweat in the priestly ministry.

After the liturgical clothing was generally simplified by decisions of the Second Vatican Council, the use of Manipels is no longer mandatory. Accordingly, today the Mass is in the so-called ordinary form of the rite before only rarely that a priest wears the maniple during the fair. However, it is not abolished. If the Holy Mass is celebrated in the so-called Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite ( Mass according to the Missal of 1962), the maniple is common.