RCIA and the Collect.

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Q.   When the Rite of Acceptance is celebrated at Mass, what happens to the collect?  A.    I think it’s just something that the framers of the RCIA didn’t think through. The Rite of Acceptance was surely designed to be celebrated apart from the mass. For example, the priest or deacon may wear a cope (48), but not a chasuble or dalmatic. However, at the end of the rite, the option for continuing with the liturgy of the eucharist is plainly appended (68). In the Roman Missal, the various masses for Christian initiation begin with the Rite of Election, not with …

Feast of the Presentation

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Q: Have you written somewhere about a pastoral approach to the liturgy for Feast of the Presentation? As a celebration that comes around on Sunday only once every seven years or so there’s no institutional memory of effective celebrations in the Catholic parishes I have served. == A: Here’s a bulletin insert I wrote on the theme. This will be republished by LTP sometime in 2020, but until then, please use it if you find it helpful. Presentation of the Lord            The Presentation of the Lord pulls many favorite mementos from the Catholic cupboard: candles, blessings, Christmas and church. The …