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]]> http://denisefath.com/changes-to-the-mass-in-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Patricia Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:15:11 +0000 http://denisefath.com/?p=826#comment-718 I am a little puzzled by one of the changes made by our Parish Priest. We now no longer use the bells at the time of the elevation or for that matter any time at all. However at most of the other Churches I have attended Mass at the bells are still being used. Is this now optional? I always felt that the bells at that particular time made it more meaningful. Would like your views I am a little puzzled by one of the changes made by our Parish Priest. We now no longer use the bells at the time of the elevation or for that matter any time at all. However at most of the other Churches I have attended Mass at the bells are still being used. Is this now optional? I always felt that the bells at that particular time made it more meaningful. Would like your views

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]]> http://denisefath.com/changes-to-the-mass-in-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Mary Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:05:47 +0000 http://denisefath.com/?p=826#comment-696 Many thanks for the information you have so far provided on the recent changes to the Mass. These have been very informative and helpful. However, I still have a few questions:- In the books I have purchased, the instructions, in my opinion, are very clearly written out. The books are produced by Catholic Publishing Organisations and are on sale in Parishes throughout the Archdiocese. The clarification I require concerns the following issues:- 1) We are being told that the Holy Father has said we are not permitted to sing whilst going to communion, yet the books tell us to join in the communion hymn? Conflict of information, and contradictory to the information being passed out to neighbouring parishes. I still have my quite time for prayer before and after I receive the Body of Christ, as I have always done and this has never interfered with myself or anyone else singing before? So I can see no reason as to why we are being told, from the Altar, that you are being disobedient if you continue to sing the Communion Hymn? 2) We are being actively encouraged to say the Doxology “Through him, and with him & in him..” – we will all say together, and yet in neighbouring parishes we are being actively discouraged from doing so, with one of your Priests clearly stating that the Doxology is for the Priest to say and no one else, and in fact, continued by saying that this is the part of the Mass where the congregation say the great Amen! So does the Holy Father say that we have or have not to say this prayer? 3) We are being actively being encouraged to say the Peace Prayer “We will all say together” ” Lord Jesus Christ who said to his Apostles .....”, Yet the books, and Priests from neighbouring parishes are telling us that this part is to be said by the Priest. So who should say this prayer, and why the different instructions from different parishes? 4) We are being told that you are not permitted to give anyone a hug at the Sign of Peace and that you should only shakes hands with the person directly beside you. The books tell you that at the Sign of Peace you should do what is customary - whatever is an expression of Peace, Communion and Charity. So who dictates what that expression should be and whom you can or can’t shake hands with? 5) I would also like clarification on the distribution of Communion during Mass. On the Holy See’s Website, it quite clearly states that the distribution of communion is to be distributed by the Priest, in fact the new books with the New Rites of the Mass also indicate this, and that the use of Eucharistic Ministers is to be used only to supplement a Priest and not instead of a Priest. Has the Holy Father changed this too? If the Catholic Church is requesting the faithful to comply with the instructions of the “Holy Father”, surely it is imperative that they issue clear and consistent instructions which do not change from Parish to Parish, Priest to Priest or Deanery to Deanery? How else can we become united in one church, as you said “ We are, after all, one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church and the Mass should reflect our unity” Many thanks for the information you have so far provided on the recent changes to the Mass. These have been very informative and helpful. However, I still have a few questions:-
In the books I have purchased, the instructions, in my opinion, are very clearly written out. The books are produced by Catholic Publishing Organisations and are on sale in Parishes throughout the Archdiocese. The clarification I require concerns the following issues:-
1) We are being told that the Holy Father has said we are not permitted to sing whilst going to communion, yet the books tell us to join in the communion hymn? Conflict of information, and contradictory to the information being passed out to neighbouring parishes. I still have my quite time for prayer before and after I receive the Body of Christ, as I have always done and this has never interfered with myself or anyone else singing before? So I can see no reason as to why we are being told, from the Altar, that you are being disobedient if you continue to sing the Communion Hymn?
2) We are being actively encouraged to say the Doxology “Through him, and with him & in him..” – we will all say together, and yet in neighbouring parishes we are being actively discouraged from doing so, with one of your Priests clearly stating that the Doxology is for the Priest to say and no one else, and in fact, continued by saying that this is the part of the Mass where the congregation say the great Amen! So does the Holy Father say that we have or have not to say this prayer?
3) We are being actively being encouraged to say the Peace Prayer “We will all say together” ” Lord Jesus Christ who said to his Apostles …..”, Yet the books, and Priests from neighbouring parishes are telling us that this part is to be said by the Priest. So who should say this prayer, and why the different instructions from different parishes?
4) We are being told that you are not permitted to give anyone a hug at the Sign of Peace and that you should only shakes hands with the person directly beside you. The books tell you that at the Sign of Peace you should do what is customary – whatever is an expression of Peace, Communion and Charity. So who dictates what that expression should be and whom you can or can’t shake hands with?
5) I would also like clarification on the distribution of Communion during Mass. On the Holy See’s Website, it quite clearly states that the distribution of communion is to be distributed by the Priest, in fact the new books with the New Rites of the Mass also indicate this, and that the use of Eucharistic Ministers is to be used only to supplement a Priest and not instead of a Priest. Has the Holy Father changed this too?
If the Catholic Church is requesting the faithful to comply with the instructions of the “Holy Father”, surely it is imperative that they issue clear and consistent instructions which do not change from Parish to Parish, Priest to Priest or Deanery to Deanery? How else can we become united in one church, as you said “ We are, after all, one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church and the Mass should reflect our unity”

]]> http://denisefath.com/changes-to-the-mass-in-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-693 John Bertram Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:01:33 +0000 http://denisefath.com/?p=826#comment-693 Thanks to the web site and admin. for your being so prompt and answering the concerns that I have been experencing during Mass and the changes that I'm trying to learn and adapt too. Thank you also for the references and changes you have posted, as to the fact, that I am attempting to utilize them in making the transition easier to digest and hasten my ability to comply and strengthen my communication with Our Blessed Savior. Thanks to the web site and admin. for your being so prompt and answering the concerns that I have been experencing during Mass and the changes that I’m trying to learn and adapt too. Thank you also for the references and changes you have posted, as to the fact, that I am attempting to utilize them in making the transition easier to digest and hasten my ability to comply and strengthen my communication with Our Blessed Savior.

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