Proper place for announcements at the EF Mass?

[TBolt1000T]

Where is the proper place for the priest to make announcements to the people, according to the rubrics of the 1962 missal? Should a priest wait until after the “ite missa est,” or is it proper to make them before the homily or sermon? Thanks.

 

[amerrychase]

My parish does the announcements after the second (English) proclamation of the Gospel, but before the homily. I don’t know if that’s the correct place, but since everything else they do is strictly by the book, I’m guessing it’s ok.

 

[StTommyMore]

A server does announcements before the Mass begins, or the priest gives announcements after the Last Gospel is read. At least that is how it is done here.

 

[malphono]

My experience is that announcements are generally made either immediately before or immediately after the sermon. Occasionally, a particular announcement may be made just prior to either the processional or the recessional.

 

[corsair]

We do it the same way as Amerrychase has stated. Just before the homily.

 

[archangel04]

Same here do it right before the homily, by this time mostly everyone is there, and we just read the Gospoel in the vernacular so it seems like a natural flow instead of an interruption from the Latin.

 

[preV2tradcath]

My experience is that announcements are generally made either immediately before or immediately after the sermon. Occasionally, a particular announcement may be made just prior to either the processional or the recessional.

That has been my experience. Our current chaplain reads the lessons in English, preaches his sermon, and then makes announcements. Many of the other priests who have said Mass for us made announcements just before the sermon after reading the lessons in English. On the rare occasions a priest had returned to the altar and remembered he had forgotten an announcement, he waited and made it after the Last Gospel.

 

[James224]

Where is the proper place for the priest to make announcements to the people, according to the rubrics of the 1962 missal? Should a priest wait until after the “ite missa est,” or is it proper to make them before the homily or sermon? Thanks.

We do it before Mass begins. I think this is the best time.

 

[mdecleene]

From the pulpit before High Mass and from the front of the altar before Low Mass.

 

[Ed_Normile]

In the GIRM it says that after the concluding rites breif announcements may be made. This is what I have usually seen, but I have seen them made during the homily, before communion etc. , things like this tend to get skewed at different dioceses.

ed

 

[Heliotropium]

Where is the proper place for the priest to make announcements to the people, according to the rubrics of the 1962 missal? Should a priest wait until after the “ite missa est,” or is it proper to make them before the homily or sermon? Thanks.

My Priest who is from the FSSP that we have waites until right before his sermon to say a quick hello to all new comers to the EF and urges them to keep coming to get used to the EF mass and then he makes the announcements. He is very clear, quick, and brief and then tells everyone that there is a bulletin available at the end of mass which will have all of the weeks events on it. Then its time for his sermons and wow they are very very very good. We are truly blessed

 

[At_Trent]

My Priest who is from the FSSP that we have waites until right before his sermon to say a quick hello to all new comers to the EF and urges them to keep coming to get used to the EF mass and then he makes the announcements. He is very clear, quick, and brief and then tells everyone that there is a bulletin available at the end of mass which will have all of the weeks events on it. Then its time for his sermons and wow they are very very very good. We are truly blessed

That is a common sense approach

That is what bulletins are for … announcements.

 

[TBolt1000T]

In the GIRM it says that after the concluding rites breif announcements may be made. This is what I have usually seen, but I have seen them made during the homily, before communion etc. , things like this tend to get skewed at different dioceses.

ed

Hi Ed. Good post. Could you please tell me exactly where in the GIRM it says this? Also, any other material in the GIRM about announcements in the EF would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[MarkThompson]

Hi Ed. Good post. Could you please tell me exactly where in the GIRM it says this? Also, any other material in the GIRM about announcements in the EF would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It is in ¶ 90(a) ("The concluding rites consist of . . . rief announcements, if they are necessary"). Please note that the GIRM governs only the OF; the EF does not have a General Instruction.

 

[jonpd]

At our church (St. Joseph’s Fitchburg MA) after the Gospel (in Latin) the celebrant removes the maniple, then we sit down and the announcements if any are read, then the epistle and gospel are read in English before the homily. Technically it is all part of the homily, where the mass is in effect suspended (which is why the celebrant removes his maniple).

 

[catholicpublish]

Once everything is done! You finish up the mass, make the announcements, and then do a “go in peace”.

 

[malphono]

In the GIRM it says that after the concluding rites breif announcements may be made. This is what I have usually seen, but I have seen them made during the homily, before communion etc. , things like this tend to get skewed at different dioceses.

Once everything is done! You finish up the mass, make the announcements, and then do a “go in peace”.

All of that is fine and dandy for the OF (aka Novus Ordo), but that’s not the point. This thread concerns the EF (aka “TLM” aka “Latin Mass”).