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

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

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

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,

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

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