{"id":9627,"date":"2023-09-07T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2023-09-07T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:25:21","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Hidden Depths of the Mass #5<\/strong><br><strong>Gestures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Before we enter our pew we genuflect.&nbsp; When we come up for Communion we bow before we receive Communion.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because our gestures mean something.&nbsp; In this case, they signify our reverence for the presence of our Lord in int Tabernacle and in the Eucharist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">We genuflect to the presence of the presence of Jesus in the Tabernacle and when the Blessed Sacrament is in the monstrance on the altar.&nbsp; We genuflect because we believe Jesus our King&nbsp;<strong><em><u>is present<\/u><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;in the Eucharist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">We offer a bow of the head when naming Father, Son, and Holy Spirit together and at the name of Jesus.&nbsp; We do this in recognition of who they are,&nbsp;<strong><em><u>God!<\/u><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; We bow at the words, \u201cand by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary\u201d, and became man\u201d because we know Jesus humbled himself to become human&nbsp;<strong><em><u>to save us<\/u><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">You can read past articles in this series of bulletin articles on my own website at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stmarystben.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=752cd901e208064397034f9bf&amp;id=2210039353&amp;e=1e6f6fe49b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Depths of the Mass #5Gestures Before we enter our pew we genuflect.&nbsp; When we come up for Communion we bow before we receive Communion.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because our gestures mean something.&nbsp; In this case, they signify our reverence for the presence of our Lord in int Tabernacle and in the Eucharist. We genuflect to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #5&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[733],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-2vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}