Catholic Answers Live - Do You Really Know the Mass

Questions Covered:

 

• 11:46 - What are the essential elements of the Mass?
• 13:43 - How did the different rites of the liturgies develop?
• 19:32 - Why don’t we use the Gloria during Lent when it has a penitential segment in it?
• 23:14 - Is the whole Mass condensed into the high priestly prayer in John 17 (“Glorify your Son, that your Son might glorify you,” etc)?
• 24:20 - If we attend an Eastern rite Mass, does that count for our Sunday obligation?
• 33:00 - When we refer to “the Lamb’s supper” is that referring to the eucharistic liturgy or the whole thing?
• 34:50 - Where do we get incense and what is the purpose behind it?
• 36:06 - Why did the Mass translations from a few years back need to happen?
• 43:10 - How much liberty can the priest take in changing the words of the Mass?
• 47:50 - Back in the ‘50s I remember the idea being tossed around of translating the Latin Mass into the vernacular. Why didn’t that happen?