Manual for proper celebration of the Mass officially presented to the Pope

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**Vatican City, Oct 21, 2009 / 01:38 pm **
(CNA).- Cardinal Antonio Canizares, Prefect of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, today officially presented Pope Benedict XVI with the “Compendium eucharisticum,” aimed at helping priests to properly celebrate Mass.

The compendium, which was officially published on October 19, is a collection of study materials, prayers and meditations related to the celebration of the Eucharist. According to Cardinal Canizares, it is “a response to the desire of the Holy Father and the request made by the bishops during the 2005 Synod on the Eucharist.”

According to the daily edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the document “puts together texts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, prayers, theological explanations of the Roman Missal’s Eucharistic prayers and everything that may be useful for the correct understanding, celebration and adoration of the Sacrament on the altar.”…

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Hopefully the USCCB will read this and adhere to it, fixing some of the issues in some diocese. Did you know that in Los Angeles they don’t even kneel anymore? It’s because the bishop (or rather, Cardinal, as is his title) interpreted from the New GIRM that standing is the same as kneeling, and he even had many churches remove the kneelers. I’m sure that there are other similar issues in other diocese, but I hope this “Compendium Eucharisticum” helps fix all of that.