After confessing our sin, we call out to our God for His mercy. In the Traditional form of the Mass, each part of the Kyrie (Kyrie, Christe and Kyrie) was

Within the Mystery of the Mass, there is no mystery in the first act that the people of God do in union with the priest.  The priest says:  Brothers and

After reverencing the altar, including incense, the priest turns to the people and begins the way that we begin all of our prayers, by invoking the Name of God: Father,

It can be easy to overlook the significance of what is the first action of the Mass, which is the priest’s approach to the Holy Altar.  In the Traditional Mass,

With the people now gathered as the people of God, they are ready to begin their common prayer. The entrance antiphon is sung (or it can be spoken), or a

The Roman Missal describes that “after the people have gathered together” the priest then enters to the proclamation of the Introit (entrance antiphon). However, to go immediately here, after our