What is the prayer just before the reading of the Gospel?

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What is the prayer just before the reading of the Gospel? I’m embarrassed to ask, but we very seldom say it out loud.

The prayer we say while we make the sign of the cross on our forehead, lips, and heart.
 
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Is there a common silent prayer to be recited just prior to the Gospel as we sign the cross on our forehead, lips and heart?
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There is no prescribed or liturgical prayer to accompany that gesture. However, once can appropriately say, silently, these words or something similar, “May the words of the Holy Gospel be in my mind, in my mouth, and in my heart,” since this is what this gesture means.
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I thought it was, Come Holy Spirit, into the hearts of Thy people and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love…
 
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Okay, don’t know where my head is, the above post is before reading any part of the Holy Bible, this is the one at Mass, before the Gospel reading, may the words of the Holy Gospel be in my mind, in my mouth, and in my heart.
I also read recently that we aren’ t really suppose to be signing ourselves on our forehead, lips and heart but that only the Priest is. I forget the documentation on that though, but it said that it was alright to do, it just isn’t what we were suppose to do and that people long ago just starting to do it in imitation of the Priest.
 
allhers said:
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Okay, don’t know where my head is, the above post is before reading any part of the Holy Bible, this is the one at Mass, before the Gospel reading, may the words of the Holy Gospel be in my mind, in my mouth, and in my heart.
I also read recently that we aren’ t really suppose to be signing ourselves on our forehead, lips and heart but that only the Priest is. I forget the documentation on that though, but it said that it was alright to do, it just isn’t what we were suppose to do and that people long ago just starting to do it in imitation of the Priest.
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Where would it be found if it was a prescribed gesture for the Laity? The GIRM? The Missal? 🤷
 
allhers said:
I also read recently that we aren’ t really suppose to be signing ourselves on our forehead, lips and heart but that only the Priest is. I forget the documentation on that though, but it said that it was alright to do, it just isn’t what we were suppose to do and that people long ago just starting to do it in imitation of the Priest.
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From the GIRM:
  1. At the ambo, the priest opens the book and, with hands joined, says, Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you), and the people respond, Et cum spiritu tuo (And also with you). Then he says, Lectio sancti Evangelii (A reading from the holy gospel), making the sign of the cross with his thumb on the book and on his forehead, mouth, and breast, which everyone else does as well.
 
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From the GIRM:
  1. At the ambo, the priest opens the book and, with hands joined, says, Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you), and the people respond, Et cum spiritu tuo (And also with you). Then he says, Lectio sancti Evangelii (A reading from the holy gospel), making the sign of the cross with his thumb on the book and on his forehead, mouth, and breast, which everyone else does as well.
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Hi, do you have a link for that? Just curious, thanks.
 
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Thanks, great sites, I really like the second one the picture was like looking in a mirror …Hehehehehehehe

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(I had to go there just to see what you were talking about Kermit)
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
usccb.org/liturgy/current/revmissalisromanien.shtml
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Thank you, I did know where to locate the GIRM itself, I guess I was looking for the part that said this:
134. At the ambo, the priest opens the book and, with hands joined, says, Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you), and the people respond, Et cum spiritu tuo (And also with you). Then he says, Lectio sancti Evangelii (A reading from the holy gospel), making the sign of the cross with his thumb on the book and on his forehead, mouth, and breast, which everyone else does as well.
I couldn’t find that part very easily. Thanks.
 
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