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Session Review

Concluding Rite

The final section of the Mass is called the Concluding Rite, which include the following parts:
  • Announcements - brief announcements about what's happening in your parish
  • Greeting, Blessing, and Dismissal ("The Lord be with you...") - prayers sending us forth
  • Closing song - a final song as we and the ministers process out
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From Papa Francis: Passing On Our Faith

During a baptism ceremony, Pope Francis preached to the parents: “[B]efore ascending to Heaven, Jesus told us to go out to the whole world to baptize. And from that day until today, this has been an uninterrupted chain: children were baptized, and then their children, and then these children’s children … And today also, this chain continues.

These children are a link in the chain. You, parents, have a baby boy or a baby girl to be baptized, but in a few years, they will be the ones who will have a child or a grandchild to be baptized. So is the chain of faith! What does this mean? I would like to say only this to you: you are the ones who transmit the faith, the transmitters. You have the duty to transmit the faith to these children. The faith is the most beautiful inheritance you will leave them! Only this. Take this thought home with you today. We must be transmitters of the faith. Think of this, think always how to transmit the faith to the children.”