During our Year of Prayer, Listening and Discernment, people shared a desire for a deeper and more united experience of worship during the Sunday Eucharist.
In responding to this desire, we’re introducing the use of common postures at Mass, as outlined in the Missal, starting this weekend, the First Sunday of Advent. It is hoped that this will help make people feel even more welcome and at home in whatever church in our diocese that they attend the celebration of the Eucharist.
Advent invites us to renewed attentiveness, hope, and preparation for the coming of Christ. In that same spirit of renewal, adopting unified postures – standing, sitting, and kneeling together at the appropriate times – helps us express more visibly that we are one community in faith.
Posters and pew cards will be available in our churches with a with a brief explanation of why we stand, kneel and sit at Mass.
A short video is also available to help understand the meaning behind the postures at different parts of the celebration of the Eucharist and how they reflect our shared faith.
May this Advent be a season of renewed hope and joyful anticipation, one in which our unity in worship deepens our communion with Christ and one another.
Olive MurrayPaula Mc Carthy I was there tonight it was beautiful 😍A beautiful liturgy tonight.
Well done to all involved.