General Instruction of the Roman Missal
General Instruction of the Roman Missal

Author: Catholic Church

Publisher: USCCB Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781574555431

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From USCCB Publishing, this revision of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) seeks to promote more conscious, active, and full participation of the faithful in the mystery of the Eucharist. While the Missale Romanum contains the rite and prayers for Mass, the GIRM provides specific detail about each element of the Order of Mass as well as other information related to the Mass.

Explanation of the Prayers and Ceremonies of Holy Mass
Explanation of the Prayers and Ceremonies of Holy Mass

Author: Dom Prosper Guéranger

Publisher: Aeterna Press

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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The Great Bishop of Poitiers, Mgr. Pie, in his funeral Oration on our Father, Dom. Guéranger, said: “You have long been feasting at a royal board, where you were daily regaled with the most delicate and varied food. Those Conferences on the Christian Life and Virtues, and that incomparable Commentary on your Rule, - you have no right to keep them to yourselves.” Aeterna Press

Celebraciones Dominicales en Ausencia de Presbítero
Celebraciones Dominicales en Ausencia de Presbítero

Author: Catholic Church

Publisher: USCCB Publishing

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781574557114

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As the number of available priests has declined, the Sunday Mass is becoming less and less available in some parishes and dioceses. Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest addresses this growing reality by providing the appropriate ritual to be used in the celebrating community. This revised ritual edition of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest is fully bilingual, with Spanish and English printed side by side. It includes Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and two appendices, Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest and Gathered in Steadfast Faith. This beautifully bound ritual book includes three ribbons and is printed in two colors. It will be a welcome addition to the sacristy or library of every parish, school, convent, and religious house.

Explanation of the Holy Mass
Explanation of the Holy Mass

Author: Prosper Gueranger

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781653398409

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The ordinary of the mass, (or, as it is called in the Roman Missal, Ordo Missae) is the summary of the rubrics and prayers, which are used in the celebration of Mass, and which are observed, without any variation, on all the feasts celebrated by the Church.We shall never have anything like a full idea of the ceremonies of the Mass, unless we keep referring to what is called a High Mass (Missa Solemnis), and which is the type of all others. Thus, one would ask, why does the priest say the Epistle at one side of the altar, and the Gospel at the other? Why not read both from the middle? This has no connection with the Holy Sacrifice itself; it is merely an imitation of what is done in a High Mass, in which the deacon has to sing the Gospel on the left, and the subdeacon the Epistle on the right, as we shall explain further on. The priest who celebrates a Mass without deacon and subdeacon, has to take their functions in this instance; and, accordingly, varies his position. We shall continually have to seek in the ceremonies of a High Mass, for the meaning of those of a Low Mass.The Sacrifice of the Mass is the Sacrifice of the Cross itself; and in it we must see our Lord nailed to the Cross; and offering up his Blood for our sins, to his Eternal Father. And yet we must not expect to find, in the several portions of the Mass, all the detailed circumstances of the Passion, as some authors have pretended to do, when giving us methods for assisting at it.The priest leaves the sacristy, and goes to the altar, there to offer up the Holy Sacrifice. He is, as the rubric expresses it, paratus - that is, he is clad in the sacred vestments, which are appointed for the celebration of the Sacrifice. Having reached the altar, he makes the due reverence before it; that is to say, if the Blessed Sacrament be there, he makes a genuflexion; otherwise, he merely makes a profound inclination. This is the meaning of the rubrics saying: debita reverentia.