Here is the video on the Concluding Rite we showed at Mass:
Families and the Eucharist
When we go on a journey to another place, we pack our suitcases with things we will need such as clothes and shoes. We can also take another kind of journey, a faith journey. On this journey we take the love of Jesus with us. We are then ready to face anything!
After we receive Holy Communion, we have quiet me to pray. Then, Father stands to give us the final blessing, and we stand with him. Father asks God for a number of special graces for us.
The priest or deacon then says, “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.” We answer, “Thanks be to God.” These are special and important words. We are sent out to live what we have celebrated at Mass. We are called to glorify the Lord by serving others in his name.
We will continue to go to Mass to praise God and to receive Holy Communion as often as we can. Eucharist is food for our faith journey.
Here is an activity you can do together as a family: https://stmargaretmary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Familes-Concluding.pdf
Did you know?
After communion there is a time of silence for adoration, thanksgiving, petition and self-offering. St. Ignatius prayed: “Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, heal me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. Good Jesus, hear me” (Anima Christi).
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The Prayer after communion is not a prayer of thanksgiving; rather, we now ask for the fruits of the Eucharist, that the sacrament may have an effect in our lives, that it will help us bring the Lord’s love to the world, give us new purpose as disciples, lead us to share Christ’s eternal life, have the Lord touch our lives, teach us the way to everlasting glory, continue the saving work of the Eucharist, and keep us single-minded in service to God and others.
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For a fourth time, the presider initiates a dialogue with the wish that the Lord will be with us, signifying, again, that something important is about to happen. But isn’t this the ending? No, it’s the beginning of the next part of the Mass, the part that lasts the longest: the part when we put what we have heard and received into action in our daily lives. The Latin words of the dismissal are Ite, missa est, which literally means “Go, you are sent”. We are all sent forth to carry out the mission of Christ and his church, sent to proclaim good news, to seek and bring justice and peace, to be a source of healing. We accept this commission as a gift, with words of gratitude, “Thanks be to God!”
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The Latin saying Lex orandi, lex credendi tells us that the way we pray shapes what we believe. If that’s so, our prayer at Mass acknowledges our need for change. Again and again we ask for greater unity, peace, and holiness not only for ourselves, but for our Church and our world. At the end of Mass we are charged “to go do good works, while praising and blessing God” (GIRM #90d), to “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by our life”. Perhaps we should embody the Latin saying Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi: the way we pray shapes what we believe which shapes how we should live.
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More information on the Concluding Rite can be found here:
Concluding Riteor you can download the PDF
