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| | Him, not hymn |
 | | If prayer is the lifting up of the mind and heart to God, to adore him, thank him, repent to him or petition him, then the two answers arent adequate. |
 | | Now, the General Instruction does tell us that singing during reception is an act of community. Surely it is desirable for Catholics to do all they can to restore the Church to the sense of community it once had and to reverse the trend to a diverse (cafeteria) Catholicism. |
 | | Thomas More, while a prisoner in the Tower in 1534, wrote A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body.1 In the midst of all our singing at reception (and, in part, due to what is being sung), lost is the sense of the gravity of the moment of reception as well as its sublimity. |
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