Roman Missal Third Edition
The Worshiping Assembly at Mass
Based upon Roman Missal Formational Materials provided by the Secretariat
for the Liturgy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "2010.
The celebration of Mass is a corporate
act, an...
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Roman Missal Third Edition
The Worshiping Assembly at Mass
Based upon Roman Missal Formational Materials provided by the Secretariat
for the Liturgy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "2010.
The celebration of Mass is a corporate
act, an act of the whole assembly
gathered for worship.
All the particular
ministries serve this corporate function
(GIRM, no.
27).
In the Mass, the
Church is joined to the action of
Christ, the high point both of the
action by which God sanctifies the
world in Christ and of the worship that
the human race offers to the Father,
adoring him through Christ, the Son of God, in the Holy
Spirit (no.
16).
We are joined to this divine action through
baptism, which incorporates us into the risen Christ.
This
action, which lies at the center of the whole Christian life
(no.
16) is not initiated by us but by God acting in and
through the Church as the body of the risen Christ.
It
becomes our action only to the extent that we give ourselves
to
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