Does the entrance procession still exist in your NO parish?

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In the Brussels Cathedral it essentially doesn’t exist anymore: the priest more or less wiggles to the new (glass) altar without much ado or even folding hands. He does the Eucharst all by himself from lack of personel (sometimes he has to ask before the start if any of the attendents want to do the first reading).

In the more elaborate Mass on sunday for example I also never saw the cross being carried into church anymore. It seems the priest just goes from sacristy to altar now, instead of entering through the church hall from outside and introibo in altare Dei.
 
That’s a bit disappointing. The entrance procession has great spiritual and catechetical value; it’s not simply a functional act of getting from point A to point B. I’m sorry to hear it’s being discarded… and at your cathedral, no less.

P.S. A glass altar? I don’t even think that’s permitted!

P.P.S. Do you have a picture of the “glass altar”? Here are two pictures I’ve found of the interior of the Cathedral of Sts. Michael and Gudula:

The High Altar: layson.multiply.com/photos/photo/47/41

The new altar: layson.multiply.com/photos/photo/47/44
 
japhy said:
That’s a bit disappointing. The entrance procession has great spiritual and catechetical value; it’s not simply a functional act of getting from point A to point B. I’m sorry to hear it’s being discarded… and at your cathedral, no less.

P.S. A glass altar? I don’t even think that’s permitted!
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When you get down to brass tacks, though, the procession is a functional act. Technically, walking from the sacristy to the sanctuary is an entrance procession, even if it only takes 5 steps. Still, it’s a shame to hear the state of the liturgy in a cathedral sinking so low.
 
One of the things the Holy Father has stressed in his recent writings on the liturgy is that the cathedral is to be a prime example of the high quality and reverence of the liturgical arts.

Sometimes it is the laity who need to get involved and volunteer to lead or help organize in a situation such as this, as a reminder to the priests of what their responsibility is supposed to include.
 
japhy said:
That’s a bit disappointing. The entrance procession has great spiritual and catechetical value; it’s not simply a functional act of getting from point A to point B. I’m sorry to hear it’s being discarded… and at your cathedral, no less.

P.S. A glass altar? I don’t even think that’s permitted!
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Yes, it’s just a large glass plate put on the bronze sculpture of a pelican. Very odd. The new main altar in the Cathedral is the huge chunck of rock, like the flinstones use for dinner. Glass altars seem to be the latest “trend” in Brussels. St.-Jan-op-de-Coudenberg has a small altar that is 100% glass.
 
introibo in altare Dei.? The priest isn’t by any chance celebrating the extra ordinary rite or the Traditional Latin Mass? As I recall those days the only time we had processions with cross and candles was for the Solemn High Sung Mass. Ordinary low Mass and High mass, the priest just came out of the sacristy, which was near the altar, preceded by a server or two, and knelt down at the foot of the altar and making the sign of the cross stated praying Et introibo in altare Dei. :confused:
 
rwoehmke said:
introibo in altare Dei.? The priest isn’t by any chance celebrating the extra ordinary rite or the Traditional Latin Mass? As I recall those days the only time we had processions with cross and candles was for the Solemn High Sung Mass. Ordinary low Mass and High mass, the priest just came out of the sacristy, which was near the altar, preceded by a server or two, and knelt down at the foot of the altar and making the sign of the cross stated praying Et introibo in altare Dei. :confused:
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I think he meant it as a Latin phrase for the English it stands for: “It seems the priest just goes from sacristy to altar now, instead of entering through the church hall from outside and ‘going in to the altar of God’.”
 
For regular daily Mass, our pastor processess in from behind the Sanctuary with the servers leading him. It is, as he terms it, “the Short Entrance.” For Sunday Mass, he always processess in from the back, and usually “recesses” out the back too. There are times that he is called upon to say the 4:00 pm anticpated Mass at the next town over, and is barely back in time for our 5:00. Then he uses “the Short Entrance” too.

Always a crucifix preceeding him on the Sunday Masses and on major feasts. The only time he doesn’t have one in the procession is daily Masses.
 
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