Although, in His incredible Mercy, GOD has forgiven our sins, and our entry to Heaven is assured, we remain ‘unclean’ so to speak, and have to be made perfect before we can come into the presence of GOD.

What’s in a bow? The ministerial (ordained) priest, conformed, by ordination, into the threefold dignity of Christ – Priest, Prophet and King – now acts in the place of Christ. When the priest stands at the Altar, when he utters those words: ‘This is My Body…This is My Blood…Do this in memory of ME.’ It […]

And yet, when we come to Mass we are expected to call him Father, to bow before him and to treat him with respect, reverence and honour...So why do we bow to the priest at Mass? Is he on some kind of ego-trip?

These different actions speak to our active and conscious participation as well as to the respect that we have for what is happening. We also listen, we watch, we speak, we touch, we taste we smell. In other words, we engage the whole person.

This ancient and sacred gesture is called the commingling, and in the early Church, it was known as the fermentum. It was this action that gave the Mass one of its earliest names – ‘The Breaking of the Bread’.

The only problem... is that Jesus was not... a nice guy...

In this weeks' Catechetical Corner we take a look at one of the oldest Catholic Symbols.