{"id":9703,"date":"2023-10-12T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:09:20","slug":"the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Depths of the Mass #10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>The Penitential Act<\/strong><br>After the greeting, the priest may offer a few words on the readings or recalling why we come to Mass.&nbsp; Following that, he says, \u201cLet us acknowledge our sins so as to prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries.&nbsp; This begins the Penitential Act.&nbsp; This does not take the place of the Sacrament of Reconciliation for <strong><em>mortal<\/em><\/strong> sins.&nbsp; Here, we are called to admit our sinfulness in humility, recognizing our need for God and his mercy.&nbsp; We need the grace God offers us in the Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Then comes the Gloria.&nbsp; Just as we humble ourselves admitting our sinfulness, we give glory and thanks to God for all that He offers us.&nbsp; We thank Jesus for being the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.&nbsp; We acknowledge God as the Holy One, the Most High.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(All previous articles in this series are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.renewaloffaith.org\/bulletinmass<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Penitential ActAfter the greeting, the priest may offer a few words on the readings or recalling why we come to Mass.&nbsp; Following that, he says, \u201cLet us acknowledge our sins so as to prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries.&nbsp; This begins the Penitential Act.&nbsp; This does not take the place of the Sacrament &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-hidden-depths-of-the-mass-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hidden Depths of the Mass #10&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-2wv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703"}],"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=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}