“Take Ye Eat. This is my body...For this is my blood of the New testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins” Matthew 26:26

The Formation of the Traditional Roman Rite Of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

I - Mass of the Catechumens

A) Preparatory Prayers at the foot of the Altar

1. Sign of the Cross

** Said freely from earliest times and imposed to all by St Pius V (1570)

2. Psalm 42 Judica Me...

3. Confiteor and Verses

B) From the Introit to the Creed

4. Introit St Celestinus (422-432)

5. Kyrie eleison 1st Century

6. Gloria in Excelsis 1st Century

7. Collect 1st Century

8. Epistle freely from 1st Century; fixed by St Damasus (366-384)

9. Gradual - Alleluia (Tract) early centuries, Sequence - 9th Century

10. Gospel freely from 1st Century; fixed by St Damasus (366-384)

11. Creed until 4th Century, Apostle Creed, then Nicean (425) Creed