concelebrate
/kɒnˈsɛlɪbreɪt
/verb [with object] Christian Church
Officiate jointly at (a Mass): the pro-nuncio will concelebrate Mass with bishops from Wales...
- Friday evening last a thanksgiving and farewell mass was concelebrated in Our Lady of Mercy Church in honour of the Sisters of Mercy.
- On April 2, Solemn Requiem Mass was concelebrated in the church, followed by burial in St. Attractas Cemetery, Rhue.
- Archbishop Michael Neary and 16 local priests concelebrated mass in the Church which was built in 1841.
Derivatives
concelebrant
- Mass at 3.30p.m. saw a full Church and one of the concelebrants was our own Fr. Colm O'Siochru.
- Noonan was chief concelebrant assisted by members of the Salesian clergy.
- The chief concelebrant was Bishop James Moriarty.
concelebration
- Fr. Stephen celebrated fifty years as a priest recently and the occasion was marked by the concelebration of Mass in St. Patricks Church, Clonbur on last Friday evening.
- He was joined by four other priests for the concelebration.
- Several other priests joined in the concelebration, including members of the Redmemptorist Order.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin concelebrat- 'celebrated together', from the verb concelebrare, from con- 'together' + celebrare (see celebrate).