INTRODUCTION each chapter is “stand alone.” You don’t have to start at the beginning 10 of the book and read to the end. It may be helpful, but not necessary. You can read any chapter in any of the Minute in the Church books and learn something. I hope you’ll find this book easy to read and understand. If you’re a lifelong Catholic, you may know 99% of what is in this book. Or you may be like I was – terribly unaware of so much of the beauty and richness of the Mass. Either way, I think you’ll find this book helpful. While this book is written generally with Catholics in mind, I believe that our non-Catholic brothers and sisters will find it useful as well, especially those who have been to a Catholic Mass and were puzzled or confused about what was going on. There are probably thousands of great books out there about the Mass. I encourage you to read as many as you can. We should never stop learning and growing in our faith. Perhaps the best place to start would be the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is quoted fairly often in this book. Paragraphs 1322-1419 are all about the Eucharist and the Mass. Start there; you won’t be sorry. Finally, I want to share a brief thought about knowledge. It is vitally important that we have knowledge about our faith. We need to know the nuts and bolts, the deeper meaning behind what we do and say and believe. This I call head knowledge. Far more important is having heart knowledge. We must know Jesus Christ. Not just know about Jesus, but know Jesus. We must be in a deep, committed, personal relationship with Him, a love relationship that grows deeper every day. Without that, all the head knowledge in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans. I hope that while this little book helps you know more about the Mass, you’ll always be working on that heart knowledge part as well. May God bless and keep you always. Gus Lloyd - Pentecost 2015
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