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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Mass participation?
« on: Yesterday at 06:15:41 PM »
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    • What does it truly mean to partake in the mass?

    Is it following along with the missal?

    Saying your own prayers and offering them up with the mass?

    Praying the Rosary during mass?

    How can one be paying attention to the mass and praying without those prayers being a distraction from the mass?

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    Offline Mat183

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    Re: Mass participation?
    « Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 07:05:05 PM »
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    • The following is found on p. 2 of the article at St. Padre Pio – Our Lady of the Rosary Library:

    " Meditation aims at the love of God and neighbor. Love God with all your soul without reserve, and love your neighbor as yourself, and you will have accomplished half of your meditation.”

    The same holds for assisting at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: it is more concerned with making acts (of contrition, Faith, love …) than with intellectual reflections or considerations. To someone asking whether it is necessary to follow the Mass in a missal, Padre Pio answered that only the priest needs a missal. According to him, the best way to attend the Holy Sacrifice is by uniting oneself to the Virgin of Sorrows at the foot of the cross, in compassion and love. It is only in Paradise, he assures his interlocutor, that we will learn of all the benefits that we received by assisting at Holy Mass."
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    Re: Mass participation?
    « Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 07:26:26 PM »
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    • Praying the prayers in the Missal will give you the best understanding of what the Mass is about. You will begin to have a deeper love for what Jesus did for us if you pray them.

    Those prayers were chosen by the Holy Spirit to guide the priest in performing his perfect oblation to God. So if you can pray them, why not do it?
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    Re: Mass participation?
    « Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 08:36:27 PM »
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    • St. Pius X said to pray the Mass. I do like to follow along the prayers. I don't do it perfectly, some I pause on or modify if I'm recalling intentions to pray for or meditating on something. I try to follow the offertory prayers mainly, and the ones after the consecration, and of course the Collect, Secret, and Post Communion.

    There are books about how to attend Mass. Surely meditating on the Passion of Christ and the purpose of the Mass/sacrifice is a good thing to do. One short book to start with is The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey, SS.CC.
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    Re: Mass participation?
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    • Quote from: AnthonyPadua on Yesterday at 06:15:41 PM
    What does it truly mean to partake in the mass?

    Is it following along with the missal?

    Saying your own prayers and offering them up with the mass?

    Praying the Rosary during mass?

    How can one be paying attention to the mass and praying without those prayers being a distraction from the mass?
    Catholic teaching emphasizes "full, conscious, and active participation" in Mass, which is both an internal spiritual commitment and an external physical one.

    Saints emphasize that this involves the mind and heart being engaged, praying with the priest, and uniting with the communal liturgy through gestures, singing, and responding. It is not merely about performing external tasks, but about a conscious, full, and interior engagement with the sacrifice of the Mass and the grace it provides.

    "It is not a matter of saying one’s prayers at Mass, but of making the Mass one’s prayer." - Pope St Pius X

    “If you wish to participate in the Mass actively, you must follow with your eye, heart and mouth all that happens on the altar. Further, you must pray with the priest the holy words said by him in the Name of Christ”. - Pope St Pius X
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