The Mass in Words and Pictures

The Final Genuflection

The Priest and servers make their final genuflection.  Photograph © Society of Saint Pius X 2003.

At a Low Mass the "Leonine Prayers" are said: these were ordered by Pope Leo XIII in 1884 and Pius XI in 1934 for the conversion of Russia.  In Churches in England a Prayer for the Queen may said after High Mass on a Sunday.

At the end of a sung mass the Priest and servers gather below the altar step and genuflect to the Blessed Sacrament.

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