At the the entrance procession – chant or hymn. The entrance hymn is first of the four proper hymns.
I have seen the Angelus sung for the entrance. Is this the Catholic Anglican Mass?At our early Mass (9am), the priest enters saying the Angelus. He then goes straight into the Sign of the Cross. We don’t have a hymn until the very end, when he leaves.
We have other music throughout, which the priest controls with a remote-controlled CD player.
I would consider the start of the Mass to be the start of the Angelus.
I’m not quite sure what that is, but I attend a ‘regular’ Catholic church in the UK. The priest also starts each daily Mass (12 noon) with the Angelus. I love it, it’s a very special prayer.
It is a very nice prayer or hymn. So I think you are using the normal Mass then. Now there is another liturgy that was approved by Rome called the Anglican Use, in addition to others.
Well yes… and I will try to be early next Sunday… but since it was not moot for me today there’s nothing wrong with asking, and I’m glad I did as it seems there are a variety of answers. So for now I’ll just assume that arriving in the middle of the opening hymn is a venial sin at most, apologize to God, and try not to do it again.
God does not love us with a stopwatch. I read that you are dealing with scrupulosity on this so I know saying “let it go” is both easier said than done and a way overdone phrase (even before Frozen).
Reality often resists our desire for surety and even the best marksman misses the bullseye once in a while.
It really gets bad when the late arrivals are able to get the parking slots vacated by the early leavers.
I worry about being late because I want to be sure to fulfill my Sunday obligation. Since there doesn’t seem to be a clear guideline anymore on “how late is too late”, I get anxious if I’m even a minute late through my own fault (and it usually is my fault). In this case I was leaving the baby home with a family member, and he had fallen asleep on his tummy, so I tried to turn him on to his back without waking him up, and ended up leaving a couple minutes late and running into Church. I recognize that part of this is scruples, as the people I was running past made it into Mass after I did and they weren’t worried about it.Here is a consideration of the question When Does Mass Begin? from EWTN
ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur282.htm
Is there a particular reason you are worried about being late? I realise you have scruples but if you are late through no fault of your own it wouldn’t be a sin. Are you worried about being able to receive the Blessed Sacramemt? In one parish I was in the guidance was that one may receive if you had arrived in time for and heard the Gospel, but not if arriving during or after the Gospel.
Over the years I have lost count of the bewildered looking people who have arrived half way through mass only to realise that they forgot to put their clocks forward!
. Here’s the order of the mass just for kicks 