The Liturgy of the Word | Understanding the Mass

There's a beautiful prayer that the priest quietly prays to prepare himself for the Gospel reading ”Cleanse my heart and my lips, almighty God, that I may worthily proclaim your holy Gospel”.

Thank you brother for shedding light on the ancient liturgical roots found in the ordinary form of the mass. While I love attending a Tridentine mass, and believe we shouldn't discourage anyone drawn to such a beautiful expression, the ordinary form certainly recaptures some of the earliest traditions of the early church. The church certainly knows what she's doing by encouraging both forms. God bless

My teacher sent this to me for work and this helped me SO much. God bless all people of the world ✝️

Thank-you for continuing to educate (re-educate in some cases) and inspire, Brother Casey.

This is my favorite thing about Catholic Mass! compared to where I normally go to church, the scriptures are always read and they are treated with reverence.

Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ ✝

Thank you Brother Casey, always including you in my prayers and excited for your ordination. Greetings from the Philippines.

I grew up catholic but had no idea what was happening and why until now ..thank you

Thank you, Brother Casey. I have just started serving as a lector in my church and this video has been very helpful and illuminating. - Brandon from Singapore

God bless you fr.Casey

Such a clear helpful explanation. I am sure people will be more Intent and appreciative of the mass after this. DUCH A GOOD DESITION.

Saint Francis Pray for us!!!

Nearly everyone in my school has watched your videos. We have leaned a lot. Thank you🙏

Let this holy and divine authority of Jesus take control over your life.

From the writings of The Rev. Eugene Walsh (1980s), who focused on liturgical-horizontal theology, i.e., congregation's roles and attitudes during Mass: "The Assembly Listens: Word" "The readers deliberately reading and the assembly actively listening and deliberately sharing silence as well as song and acclamation are together the ministers of the Word." The main components of the Liturgy of the Word are the Bible readings and Homily.

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Sounds like Vatican II was wise. It sounds a lot better this way. Found out that I probably only had mass along these lines at the St Peter cathedral in Rome. While it's a beautiful place the place was noisy with all the tourists and the priest could not be understood. So mass and Christianity did not hook me there and than. Which is a pity.

The mutual requirement/importance for both the Liturgy of the Word and Eucharist has been part of the Divine Liturgy (of St John Chrysostom/St Basil the Great) for almost 1500 years. Just saying... Byzantine's got the traditionalism and proper form down well haha That said our Old Testament readings (yes plural) occur in Matins/Vespers before the Divine Liturgy. The Liturgy of the Word contains only Epistle and Gospel readings in the Byzantine Rite (also contains something similar to Roman responsorial Psalms and Alleluias) We don't have responses for before/after the Epistle readings. We go from the Prokeimenon (chanted responsorial Psalms) into the Epistle chant into the Alleluias into a blessing into the Gospel. Before and after the Gospel we say "Glory to you, O Lord, Glory to you!"

Mass.. If you know your scripture you will be amazed at how scriptural the words used in the Mass are.

I doing this for exams.