Nicene Creed Missing from Mass

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Mintaka said:
As for saying the Regina Coeli after Mass, et al – you’re seeing the collision of two different old customs. One is spending a good deal of time – fifteen minutes or more – praying in thanksgiving for Communion after Mass. Multiple Mass times and parking problems have eliminated this in most parishes, but parishes which still practice this cling hard. The other is saying one of the Hours in the Liturgy of the Hours right after Mass, which was very common because it would be time to say one by the time Mass was over. 🙂 In places where this was not done, often they would at least say the Regina Coeli or whatever the Marian hymn for the season was.

But nowadays we have a closing hymn that starts as soon as people say “Thanks be to God”, and the priest also leaves right away. So parishes which wish to retain their Regina Coeli will often say or sing it before the dismissal and the closing hymn. Now it may be that there’s an option somewhere in the liturgy books permitting this, or there may not be. Either way, this is the sort of thing that doesn’t keep the Vatican awake at night, as it’s a sensible enough local adaptation, and possibly even an organic development. And if you’re not going to that parish every week, it’s probably not going to worry you, either. (If you were, you might want to ask about the rationale for it.)
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I am curious as to where this information comes from? I grew up pre- Vatican II and I can assure you that neither the Liturgy of the Hours nor the Regina Coeli was said after most Masses. Certainly not in my home diocese nor the one in which I went to university. The Regina Coeli is sung at the conclusion of the last Liturgy of the Hours, typically night prayer ( Vespers or Compline) It is also sung or recited in place of the Angelus during the Easter Season, from Holy Saturday through Pentecost Sunday. The times of day when it is sung instead of the Angelus are 6am, noon and 6pm. If a Mass ended at noon,as do some of the Papal Masses, then it is appropriate to sing the Angelus or the Regina Coeli. If it is done at any other time other than the specified times, it is (and always has been) wrong. There are many parishes which have a noon Mass, either on Sundays or during the week and the Angelus or Regina Coeli (in its correct liturgical season) are sung immediately before Mass begins. The recitation of this prayer is not a local adaption and the correct times for saying it are not subject to local adaptions.
 
benedictgal said:
There is no need to be rude. If you want to exchange pleasantries, do so in the vestibule or outside of the church. When Mass begins, we are entering God’s time. We are being a part of something sacred. Furthermore, a secular greeting makes the Mass more of a community-based act where the horizontal takes precedence over God, the vertical.
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Whether or not the so-called vertical or horizontal take precedence will usually be a matter of opinion. Over-emphasis on either one to the exclusion of the other will be a detriment to liturgy. We don’t leave our humanity in the vestibule or outside. We worship God in liturgy as fully human creatures. Keeping God the focus does not mean denying the reality of our bodies, postures, language, culture, etc. I’m sure you know this it’s just that I’m concerned that some who read what you post might think otherwise.
 
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