The Entrance

 The Grandkids are learning about Mass.  So far, we've got behavior in the church down--entering and taking a seat.  

We enter the playroom and dip a finger in the holy water font and bless ourselves. Then we look around for the sanctuary light, otherwise, this playroom chapel might not be Catholic. 

Ah, there's a red sanctuary light.

There's a little brouhaha between the altar servers over who's going to light the Sanctuary light, but I assured these little acolytes that there's work for everyone.

And here's the Tabernacle:

We in the congregation need to know where the Tabernacle is (on top of a trunk) because we genuflect facing the Tabernacle, then bless ourselves and go into our pew.  The pew is pretty full of stuffed animals, dolls, and puppets, but they are polite and make room for us.

That's as far as we've got.  Next week we'll learn about the Liturgy of the Word.

What's inside this Tabernacle?  Why didn't you know?  That's the best part.  There's a covered bowl that my niece Christina gave me from Austria.  We are using this as our ciborium.  

We are using chocolate for hosts.  What's better than that?  Money?  Yes! How about chocolate covered money!  

 Then we put our precious valuables inside our Tabernacle.

and we in the pew wait for the procession to enter so Mass can begin.  We all took turns and swapped places.  The altar server carrying the cross.  The Lector carrying the book.  Last is the priest.  

Once everyone reached the altar, we all took our places, the priest kissed the altar and greeted everybody.

Stay tuned.