{"id":9645,"date":"2023-09-14T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:42:13","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><br><strong>The Procession<\/strong><br>As each person arrives for Mass, they find a seat in the pews.&nbsp; It is a good time to pray in silence as you wait for the Mass to begin.&nbsp; When it is time for Mass to&nbsp;begin, the altar servers, lectors, and clergy process in.&nbsp; Their procession is symbolic of the entire congregation gathering together in church to praise God.&nbsp; The congregation stands as the procession enters, seeing the priest\u2019s entry as symbolic of God entering.&nbsp; When an important person arrives, do we not stand in reverence for them?&nbsp; Who is more important than God?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">During the procession, we are all called to join in song praising God.\u00a0 Recall how the crowds\u00a0cried out, \u201cHosanna to the Son of David\u201d as Jesus entered Jerusalem. \u00a0<br><br>You can find previous articles in this series online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass\">http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ProcessionAs each person arrives for Mass, they find a seat in the pews.&nbsp; It is a good time to pray in silence as you wait for the Mass to begin.&nbsp; When it is time for Mass to&nbsp;begin, the altar servers, lectors, and clergy process in.&nbsp; Their procession is symbolic of the entire congregation gathering &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #6&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-2vz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645"}],"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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9648,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}