Mozzetta

A Moz ( z) etta ( from Italian mozzo " cut, trimmed ") is a reaching to the elbows, worn over the surplice shoulder collar for usually higher clergy of the Catholic Church. Partly it is worn with a small hood; Bishops wear a Mozetta without a hood.

Development

Originally it was in the Mozetta a coat; this is also reflected in the preserved in the papal Mozetta ( ornamental ) hood. Even today's " Schultermäntelchen " is closed by a row of buttons in front. A hood would be for a bishop with bishop's miter ( Galero ) unusable. At the Episcopal Mozetta so are not these ( ornamental ) hood. Even with other Mozetten the hood is now no longer common. The Mozetta is made today from wool, rare still from Moiréseide.

Use

The Mozetta is a liturgical garment and is part of the choir dress. It is worn over the surplice. About the Mozetta the stole is worn, but only when the priest performs a priestly act, not when he mitfeiert worship. An exception is the Pope who stole Mozetta and often carries outside of worship.

Simple clergy wear as well as the Papal Prelate ( Apostolic Proto notaries, Honorary Prelate of His Holiness, and Chaplains of His Holiness ) no Mozetta, the Apostolic Proto Notaries and the canons of St. Peter's in Rome but instead the mantle Letta.

Coloring

The color of the Mozetta brings the rank of the wearer to express:

  • The pope wears a red summer Mozetta of silk, in the winter of velvet with white Fellsaum or a white Mozetta damask, also with white Fellsaum, during the Easter season. The last two variants were of the popes up to Paul VI. used and under Benedict XVI. reintroduced.
  • Cardinals wear a scarlet Mozetta with scarlet buttons (cardinal purple ); next to it also carries the Archbishop of Salzburg as legatus natus such a red Mozetta, even if he is not a cardinal ( Legatenpurpur ).
  • Bishops violet Mozetta with red buttons.
  • In a black Mozetta with purple buttons and a purple hem dress in many dioceses the Domvikare and deans / deans. The Canons / canons wear either the traditional way a purple Mozetta as the bishops or a black Mozetta with red buttons.
  • In the Archdiocese of Salzburg bear the canons since the establishment by Emperor Francis I in 1825, a cherry red Mozetta. In the Diocese of Dresden - Meissen bear canons instead of the black Mozetta with purple piping on special occasions, as part of the solemn choir dress, a red Mozetta.
  • The higher ecclesiastics wear a Mozetta in the color of their Habits, Benedictine abbots, for example, a black Mozetta with black buttons, a white Prämonstratenseräbte Mozetta.
  • According to the Acta Domus Ecclesiae de titulo Basilicae minoris of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments of 9 November 1989, the rector of a papal basilica ( Basilica minor) wears a black silk, red piped Mozetta.
  • A Mozetta in different colors wear partly also members of Canons pins, pin chapters or members of various canons or order of knights, so you have to, can connect to the ordination of the Mozetta not on the membership of the higher clergy, not even.

Miscellaneous

Pope Paul VI. was given by the American Nerzzüchterorganisation Emba Mink Breeders Association a lined with white mink Mozetta that he accepted benevolently at a private audience on May 4, 1964. He added: "Sometimes it's very cold in the winter in the church, and then the Mozetta will keep me warm ." It was made by the company Maximilian, New York, which the pattern and the velvet of Rome had come.

Pictures

Pope Clement XII. with Camauro and Mozetta

Pope Benedict XVI. with hermelinverbrämter Mozetta

Pope Benedict XVI. with the white Mozetta of Easter

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