by Lynne Marie | May 10, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Celebrate in The Spirit We have seen that the Mass, like nothing else in Christianity, draws us together in the experience of relationship with the Father, Son, and Spirit. We are one in the Spirit: united with God and with each other in celebrating the death...
by Lynne Marie | May 9, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Tripod of Prayer The structure of the Mass reveals the Church’s consciousness of the Father, Son and Spirit. Mass begins “in the name of the Father… Son… Holy Spirit.” The intent of the Greeting is so clearly Trinitarian—”grace...
by Lynne Marie | May 8, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Receiving Communion Together Creates Unity The Instructions (GIRM 86) say the purpose of the hymn sung during the Communion procession “is to express the communicants’ union in spirit by means of the unity of their voices… and to highlight more clearly...
by Lynne Marie | May 7, 2025 | Daily Reflections
One Bread, One Body Receiving Communion is not just a sign of unity; it creates unity. Before Communion, as all sing the Agnus Dei, the presiding priest breaks the host, the “Eucharistic Bread” that is Christ’s Body. The Mass instructions...
by Lynne Marie | May 6, 2025 | Daily Reflections
The Spirit Makes Holy In Eucharistic prayer I, the presider holds his hands over the offerings and prays: “Make holy these gifts, by sending down your Spirit upon them.” In Eucharistic prayer III, he declares, “You are indeed Holy, O Lord…...
by Lynne Marie | May 5, 2025 | Daily Reflections
Source and Summit of Unity The Mass instructions (GIRM 78) say the “center and summit of the entire celebration” is the Eucharistic Prayer, in which “the Church implores the power of the Holy Spirit that the gifts offered by human hands… will...
