POSTURE DURING THE MASS The appropriate times during which we stand, sit or kneel during Mass were set over 40 years ago in the General Instruction on the Roman Missal published in the 1970’s. But across Ireland, and even from parish to parish in Dublin, we tend to fall back into postures as used before(…)
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