There’s something about
Latin Mass on a Sunday
that’s very special –
a sense of incense
that I have never experienced
anywhere else.

It seems to me
that everyone
and everything
is being incensed,
you see.

The priest swirls incense
all along the top of the altar,
down both sides of the altar
and along the front.

During the Mass
an altar server incenses
everyone –
the priest and seminarian,
all of the other altar servers,
the visiting Sisters
and the entire congregation
before incensing
the body of Christ
and the blood of Christ
as our priest raises them
on high.

There is a very real sense
that, through this incense,
we are all being blessed,
prepared,
for something mysterious,
something sacred,
something miraculous.

A sense of incense
as we all take our places
and wait for Almighty God
to take His.

And all of this happens
every … single … Sunday.
Wow!

A sense of incense
at Latin Mass
on a Sunday
that I have never experienced
anywhere else –
I feel so blessed
just to be here
and to be a part of this!

© Claire Murray, 30th January 2022