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1 THE MASSI. INTRODUCTORY RITESE ntranceVeneration of the AltarGreetingPenitential Rite Lord, Have Mercy Glory to God in the Highest Opening PrayerII. THE LITURGY OF THE WORDS cripture ReadingsHomilyProfession of FaithPrayers of the FaithfulIII. THE LITURGY OF THEEUCHARISTP reparation of the GiftsPrayer Over the GiftsEucharistic Prayer1. Preface2. Acclamation Sanctus3. Epiclesis4. Consecration5. The Mystery of Faith6. Anamnesis7. Offering8. Intercessions9. Final Doxology & AmenCommunion Rite1. Lord s Prayer2. Rite of Peace3. Breaking of Bread4. Communion5. Prayer After CommunionIV. CONCLUDING RITESA nnouncementsBlessingDismissalVeneration of the AltarPersonal Thanksgiving#2 in a series of 40 inserts researched and compiled for the parishioners ofSt.
2 John the Apostle Catholic Church, Lincoln, Nebraska. (c) are born to live; Christ was born to was born in Bethlehem to give his life for our salvation, in fulfillment ofhis priestly mission. Christ wants us to remember him for his death. He himselfgave us the fitting memorial to it, to reactualize and make present the verysacrifice of Calvary, to remind us that He died so that we may have life, so thatwe may be freed from the tyranny of sin. He told us the exact way He wantedus to commemorate His death, His resurrection, and His ascension to memorial He gave us is the is a mistake to think that the mass is a memorial service like that onMemorial Day, or a sort of imitation of the Last Supper, or a collection ofprayers. The mass is not just a collection of prayers, no matter how beautiful ormoving they may be.
3 Our Lord becomes present in the mass , doing somethingdeeply supernatural: performing a does THE TERM mass COME FROM?It is very possible that you may not know what mass means. After all, youprobably have always heard the mass said in your own language. But mass isderived from the way the mass was ended in of the familiarity of the ending, the celebration of our Lord sSupper eventually became known simply as the mass . There were actuallytwo dismissals in the celebration -- one in which catechumens (people whowere not fully Catholic yet but wanted to be) were dismissed right after thesermon, and the dismissal at the end, when all the fully initiated Catholics, thefaithful, were dismissed. There were two Masses, namely the mass of theCatechumens and the mass of the fact that we call this greatest of Christian prayers the dismissal pointsto the essence of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.
4 Our Lord callsus to Himself and through His saving act invites us to a unity with God theFather through the power of His Holy Spirit. Jesus makes communion with Godpossible. But following Jesus does not stop with this communion, for once Hehas united us to Himself, He then sends us forth with a mission (a dismissal). Go is one of His final words to His disciples as He ascends into heaven inthe Gospel of Matthew s account. Hence, the way every mass ends with go is at the heart of what we come to the mass for -- to be empowered by Godand sent forth go that is the very meaning of the word mass receives its meaningfrom our communion with our Lord Jesus Christ during the mass , WHERE webelieve and come to know Him! mass is an English rendering of the Latin term missa.
5 In Latinthe mass ends with Ite missa est, which translated into Englishmeans Go, it is sent, the it being the Church. From the Latinword missa comes the English word dismiss. So mass means dismissal. The celebration takes its name from the sendingforth that occurs at the end of every H A T D O E S I T M E A N ?
