Society of Saint Gregory

In my parish, which has a centrally-located tabernacle east of the altar, the ministers come and stand at the appropriate side of the altar without bowing or genuflecting. They are not passing in front of the Blessed Sacrament at this point, merely approaching the altar on which the Sacrament is pla...

In my parish, I continue my predecessor's practice of dismissing the children after the greeting and before the penitential rite. The prayer docmattc refers to is on p. 13 of http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/SOS/LOWC.pdf - we don't currently use that but now I know it's there... On Good Friday 2008, ...

Some useful resources: For a history of communion-without-Mass in 1st millennium religious order houses, [url]see m[/url] For a review of the practice of daily communion (with obvious implications for Word-and-Communion services), see http://www.drgareth.info/DailyCommunion.pdf (This article was wri...

I'd like to pick on another of the liturgical rites mentioned - the Acclamation for the Baptised. I presume this means the optional acclamation immediately following baptism, but perhaps we can widen this to a particular group of congregational responses? As a newly ordained priest (May 2007) I have...

A final question - which is slightly off on a tangent - how often is the text of the psalm referred to in the homily in people's experience? And presuming a low scoring answer why? As a preacher (ordained deacon 2006, priest 2007) I usually look at the psalm along with the other texts as a possible...