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Hello,

I have a question… First time at a weekday Mass. When the Priest enters the chapel he does a form of the Hail Mary. I have no idea what they are saying, it is repeated a couple of times.

Apparently 40+ years of going to church was not enough. Can someone point me to what this is? I feel like a dope. The weekday mass is a little different in a chapel you can’t hide in the back to figure it all out.

Thanks.
 
BTW - maybe it was a “Hail, Holy Queen”?

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our Life, our Sweetness, and our Hope.
To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.
To Thee do we send up our sighs mourning
and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious Advocate,
Thine Eyes of Mercy toward us,
and after this our exile show us the
Blessed Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
Pray for us O Holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
 
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Apparently 40+ years of going to church was not enough. Can someone point me to what this is? I feel like a dope. >>

Have you tried asking the priest or people there? Wouldn’t that be the sensible thing?
 
bpbasilphx said:
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Apparently 40+ years of going to church was not enough. Can someone point me to what this is? I feel like a dope. >>

Have you tried asking the priest or people there? Wouldn’t that be the sensible thing?
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Primarily because it was my first time in this church, don’t know anyone in the church/town as this is where I commute to work. I thought maybe I would get a quick, easy and friendly answer here as I asked as soon as I returned.

Thanks.

(Also, I have re-posted as suggested)
 
I went to a Mass the other day and the priest (from Korea) said the Angelus with the congregation as he entered—

Priest: The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary and she concieved of the Holy Spirit.

Congregation: Hail Mary, full of grace…

P: Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done unto me according to thy word.

C: Hail Mary…

P: And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

C:Hail Mary…

P: Let us pray. Pour forth we beseech thee oh lord thy grace into our hearts that we to whom the incarnation of Christ, thy son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by his passion and cross be brought to the glory of his resurrection. thru the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
if Mass began at 6 am or pm, or at noon, it may have been the Angelus, as described above, because each antiphon/response is followed by a Hail Mary. This was the prayer for laypersons at these hours, when the monks were called by bells to the Divine Office. There is a famous painting of peasants praying the Angelus in the fields. This was still commonly prayed in my Catholic school childhood. At noon on the playground as soon as the bell sounded we stood stock still and prayed it together. Our town had a 6 o’clock am & pm factory whistle signalling a shift change, and that also signalled Catholics for the Angelus (named because it begins with the angelic salutation in the Annunciation, and is the first word of the prayer in Latin).
 
puzzleannie said:
There is a famous painting of peasants praying the Angelus in the fields.
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Here is “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet. Catholics would stop whatever they were doing at 6AM, 12 noon, and 6PM to pray this prayer, which recalls the Incarnation of Christ, the greatest mystery of our faith, God taking on human flesh.

It is a wonderful prayer to pray daily for the conversion of those in the world who do not believe in the Incarnation.

http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/images/angelus.jpg
 
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