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LITURGICAL BITS & BYTES
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Save time and energy with a subscription to Liturgical Bits & Bytes. These brief informative tidbits are designed to help catechize your parish with the parish bulletin, newsletter, or other parish media. The sequence of articles is step-by-step through the Mass, or you can select individual articles by topic from the index. Subscribe to this online resource and have the entire archive available from the beginning. Additional articles are added each month.
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Samples
Assembling for LiturgyWhy do we come together to celebrate Liturgy? (We used to call it attending mass.) · Because we are all needed there. · Because the Body of Christ is not complete without us. · Because we can gain strength from the faith witness of others and give encouragement to others through our own faith witness · Because we need to acknowledge our relationship with God and with one another · Because God has called us. Copyright © 2008 Resource Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Baptistry Baptism is a sacrament that celebrates our faith in Christ. Obviously, infants are in no position to make a faith decision to accept Christ's salvation. They cannot and do not choose to become members of the church. Parents who present their children to be baptized, therefore, accept the responsibility for their child to learn about God and to develop a sense of the holy through their involvement with a faith community. The rite of baptism makes it very clear that parents present their children to Christ and to the church. In turn, the church blesses the parents as the child's first Christian teachers. In reflecting on this awesome task, parents should remember that they have received God's special call and God's special grace to help to form their children in the faith. Copyright © 2008 Resource Publications, Inc. All
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The Opening Prayerconcludes the Gathering Rite or Introductory Rites of the mass. It is the prayer of the people. The presider says, “Let us pray.” The pause which follows is not to give the altar server time to bring the book to the presider. It is a time which the members of the assembly are given for their own prayer. In the early Church, the members of the assembly voiced their prayers out loud. When this had gone on for a time, the presider said a CONCLUDING prayer which collected all the prayers voiced by the people and summed them up, bringing the communal prayer to an end. Before Vatican II that prayer was known as the COLLECT. Now it is called the Opening Prayer. The Opening Prayer is called that because it is the first “presidential” prayer of the liturgy, that is, the first prayer which the presider voices in the name of the people. However, his part of the prayer is the CONCLUSION to the prayer which we are all to have said in response to the invitation, “Let us pray.” Copyright © 2008 Resource Publications, Inc. All
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