How to end the Mass? New saying each week?

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I was curious as to how the Mass may be ended. I have typically heard “The Mass is ended, let us go in peace” or, “The Mass has ended, go in peace to love and serve the Lord”.

Lately, our priest has replaced these words with a new ending almost every week. For example:
  • “Saved by faith and created to do good works, let us go in peace to love and serve each other”
  • “Our Mass has now ended, but let us continue the story”
    Anyone else experience this? Is it allowed?
 
Elzee said:
I was curious as to how the Mass may be ended. I have typically heard “The Mass is ended, let us go in peace” or, “The Mass has ended, go in peace to love and serve the Lord”.

Lately, our priest has replaced these words with a new ending almost every week. For example:
  • “Saved by faith and created to do good works, let us go in peace to love and serve each other”
  • “Our Mass has now ended, but let us continue the story”
    Anyone else experience this? Is it allowed?
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No, this is not allowed.
 
Elzee said:
I was curious as to how the Mass may be ended. I have typically heard “The Mass is ended, let us go in peace” or, “The Mass has ended, go in peace to love and serve the Lord”.

Lately, our priest has replaced these words with a new ending almost every week. For example:
  • “Saved by faith and created to do good works, let us go in peace to love and serve each other”
  • “Our Mass has now ended, but let us continue the story”
    Anyone else experience this? Is it allowed?
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I don’t think so. The common endings in Masses are:

The Mass is ended, go in peace.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Go in the peace of Christ.

What your priest is doing is probably a Liturgical Abuse if he is ad-libbing the words of the Mass.
 
“The Mass never ends, let us go forth in Peace”

Priest: “The Mass is ended, (something) Alleluia, Alleluia.”
Response: “Alleluia, Alleluia”
 
PatienceAndLove said:
“The Mass never ends, let us go forth in Peace”

Priest: “The Mass is ended, (something) Alleluia, Alleluia.”
Response: “Alleluia, Alleluia”
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The Mass never ends? The first time I heard that.
Is that commonly used? :confused:
 
I think the priest has missunderstood Sacramentum Caritatis that recently was issued this month, it says:
The dismissal: “Ite, missa est”
  1. Finally, I would like to comment briefly on the observations of the Synod Fathers regarding the dismissal at the end of the eucharistic celebration. After the blessing, the deacon or the priest dismisses the people with the words: Ite, missa est. These words help us to grasp the relationship between the Mass just celebrated and the mission of Christians in the world. In antiquity, missa simply meant “dismissal.” However in Christian usage it gradually took on a deeper meaning. The word “dismissal” has come to imply a “mission.” These few words succinctly express the missionary nature of the Church. The People of God might be helped to understand more clearly this essential dimension of the Church’s life, taking the dismissal as a starting- point. In this context, it might also be helpful to provide new texts, duly approved, for the prayer over the people and the final blessing, in order to make this connection clear (154).
As you can see, I think he did not realize that he needs to follow the text, and that the suggestion that “it might also be helpful to provide new texts,” was not directed to him, but to the Vatican Curia.
 
chrysostom15 said:
I think the priest has missunderstood Sacramentum Caritatis that recently was issued this month, it says:
The dismissal: “Ite, missa est”
  1. Finally, I would like to comment briefly on the observations of the Synod Fathers regarding the dismissal at the end of the eucharistic celebration. After the blessing, the deacon or the priest dismisses the people with the words: Ite, missa est. These words help us to grasp the relationship between the Mass just celebrated and the mission of Christians in the world. In antiquity, missa simply meant “dismissal.” However in Christian usage it gradually took on a deeper meaning. The word “dismissal” has come to imply a “mission.” These few words succinctly express the missionary nature of the Church. The People of God might be helped to understand more clearly this essential dimension of the Church’s life, taking the dismissal as a starting- point. In this context, it might also be helpful to provide new texts, duly approved, for the prayer over the people and the final blessing, in order to make this connection clear (154).
As you can see, I think he did not realize that he needs to follow the text, and that the suggestion that “it might also be helpful to provide new texts,” was not directed to him, but to the Vatican Curia.
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Sad that many priests disregard that.

I also noticed the Priest’s ad-lib focused more on the congregation rather than the Lord.

“Saved by faith and created to do good works, let us go in peace to love and serve each other” instead of “to love and serve the Lord”

“Our Mass has now ended, but let us continue the story”
Our Mass? :confused:
 
PatienceAndLove said:
I heard it a lot at my friend’s church’s lifeteen mass.
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Doesn’t that also constitute an abuse or something? I checked the text of the Mass and the only ones appearing were the three endings

The Mass is ended, go in peace.
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
Go in the peace of Christ.

(The Latin version of the NO only has ‘Ite Missa Est’)

The second one is used in Easter (the one with the Alleluia appended on it)
 
Liturgical books have clear options in them, books in particular languages might have indults for more options than the typical (meaning normative) Latin text, but no one has an indult for ad libbing. The end of the story, then, is that making up new texts every Mass is certainly abusive.
 
PatienceAndLove said:
I heard it a lot at my friend’s church’s lifeteen mass.
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The were instructed to cease using that ending and stick to the options in the GIRM.This was back in 2004. I can’t find the original article but I found a link to Amy Wellborn.
amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2004/07/lifeteen_and_gi.html
  1. The GIRM very specifically offers three options for the end of the Mass. We are to cease using the phrase “The Mass Never Ends, It Must Be Lived” and begin using one of the three prescribed endings found in the Missal.
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There are a couple of options of the sending, but yes, they should stick to the script.

Lifeteen masses should have changed with the new GIRM put in place, and most did.

However…and I find this interesting…this is from the new document SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS

*The dismissal: “Ite, missa est”
  1. Finally, I would like to comment briefly on the observations of the Synod Fathers regarding the dismissal at the end of the eucharistic celebration. After the blessing, the deacon or the priest dismisses the people with the words: Ite, missa est. These words help us to grasp the relationship between the Mass just celebrated and the mission of Christians in the world. In antiquity, missa simply meant “dismissal.” However in Christian usage it gradually took on a deeper meaning. The word “dismissal” has come to imply a “mission.” These few words succinctly express the missionary nature of the Church. The People of God might be helped to understand more clearly this essential dimension of the Church’s life, taking the dismissal as a starting- point. **In this context, it might also be helpful to provide new texts, duly approved, for the prayer over the people and the final blessing, in order to make this connection clear *(154).
I realize it says “duly approved”…but I still find that interesting.
 
I have a question about the proper end of Mass saying. I’m not exactly up on what all the “rules” are, and I was wonder if this was proper. At the church I attend on Sunday’s with my family, they don’t end the Mass with the traditional:

P: “This Mass is ended, let us go in peace, to love and serve the Lord”

R: “Thanks be to God”

But with this:

P: “The Mass never ends”

R: (Kind of yelling) “It must be lived!!!”

The first few months that we went there, I couldn’t understand what everyone was yelling, and I had to ask. I was just wondering if this is a proper ending??

Thanks,

Tom
 
No, that is not the proper Mass ending.
My friend’s LifeTeen mass used to do this, and I believe LifeTeen was told to cease and desist with that ending.
 
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