DO'S AND DON'TS IN LITURGY PART -2

Do's and Don'ts PART -II

• When the processional cross is used as the altar cross, it should  have the image  of Christ on it.( GIRM ,122). A figure of the risen Christ behind an altar cannot be regarded as a substitute for the cross.
• If the processional cross is used during Mass and placed next to the altar, only that cross that should be incensed.
• The Book of the Gospels should be carried in both hands in a slightly raised, but without being held too high, and it is never waved from side to side. (GIRM, 12Od, 133, 172, 175)
• Only the Book of the Gospels is carried in the procession and not the Lectionary or the Bible. (GIRM, 120d, 172)
• The entrance procession should include only those going to minister in the scantuary, i.e., altar servers, lectors (if space permits), deacons and priests.
• In the entrance procession, those who carry articles used in the celebration, for example, the cross, candlesticks, the Book of the Gospels, are not required to make deep bow or to genuflect.
• A priest is not to enter into a concelebrations or to be admitted as a concelebrant once the Mass has already begun.
• Water for ASPERGES should be blessed at the penitential rite, omitting the penitential rite itself and sprinkeled immediately after the blessing. It is incorrect to sprinkle with holy water during the entrance procession, Gloria or during the recissional hymn.
• Only assisting deacons accompany the presider while incensing the altar and cross and jot the concelebrants.
• During the Easter season the Paschal candle is incensed. It is to be kept next to the ambo.