Week 32: An Act of Contrition

Following the sign of Peace, we enter into the immediate preparation for our reception of Holy Communion by approaching the Lamb of God with humility and contrition.We may recall the […]

Week 31: The Sign of Peace

At the conclusion of the Our Father, the Priest turns toward the people in offering the peace of Christ. Traditionally, this initiated a cascade of the exchange of peace; first […]

Week 30: Our Father

We are all familiar with the words of the Our Father and the habit that we get into at the end of the Eucharistic Prayer: The priest gives the introduction […]

Week 29: From Earth to Heaven

As the prayer resumes, a significant change takes place from the words offered before the consecration. Whereas we had pleaded our God to accept the offering of bread and wine, […]

Week 28: The Mystery of Faith

The Mystery of Faith is one of the places that significantly changed from the Traditional Latin Mass. In the TLM, the words of the Mystery were part of the words […]

Week 27: The Consecration

We come to the Heart of the Mass. The Consecration is the mystery when ordinary becomes divine. What was bread and wine, at the conclusion of the words of the […]

Week 26: The Epiclesis

Right before the prayers of consecration, the Priest asks Almighty God, that He pie down His Holy Spirit upon the gifts and offerings. This outpouring is the Epiclesis. It was […]

Week 25: Commemoration of the Living

I imagine that when I mention the Commemoration of the Living, your first thoughts are likely that this is an act of our doing; that we are adding to our […]

Week 24: For the Church

Whenever a sacrifice is offered, the obvious question is: Why is it being offered? Are we offering the sacrifice of the Mass to pay off the debt of my sins? […]

Week 23: Holy and Unblemished Sacrifices

The Eucharistic Prayer begins as we approach God in “humble prayer” admitting, in a heartfelt way, that every petition we offer is a petition of hope, and not of entitlement. […]