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The document summarizes the author's experience attending their first Christian mass. It describes the various parts of the mass ceremony including opening prayers, reading from the Gospel, a homily, prayers of the faithful, communion, and a closing prayer. The author found the mass to be an enlightening experience that brought the community together through shared prayers and songs. They believe that attending church could help guide and educate teenagers to live ethical lives, as Christianity and other religions can provide guidance.

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Christianity Mass Article

The document summarizes the author's experience attending their first Christian mass. It describes the various parts of the mass ceremony including opening prayers, reading from the Gospel, a homily, prayers of the faithful, communion, and a closing prayer. The author found the mass to be an enlightening experience that brought the community together through shared prayers and songs. They believe that attending church could help guide and educate teenagers to live ethical lives, as Christianity and other religions can provide guidance.

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My first Christian Mass church you get to experience these

beliefs. Their main belief is love one


By Ryley Smith another and in church you feel that love
Cross on the bible and welcoming.

The mass started out with an opening


prayer, the priest then asked us to join our
minds in prayer. The opening prayer
directs the Father and the Holy Spirit to us
during the silence of the prayer. It lets the
adherents know that the mass is going to
commence.

After the opening prayer the priest then


Christianity read from the Gospel. The Gospel means
Christianity is one of the world’s most good news as it tells the story of Jesus’s
known religions with over 2 billion life and his teachings, the Gospel also
adherents. The main beliefs of Christianity includes the death and resurrection of
are the birth, life and death of Jesus. Jesus. The Gospel is an important part of
Jesus’s teachings were to love God, love mass as it is the life of Jesus.
everyone around us, God will forgive your After the Gospel the priest then said the
sins, don’t judge others and God is in Homily, the Homily is followed by a
everyone, we are all a version of God. The reading from the Bible. The Homily gives
Holy Text in Christianity is the Bible. The insight to the meaning of the scripture.
bible is read out during ceremonies like
mass or special events. Christianity’s place After this is the Prayer of the Faithful, this
of worship is a Church. At Church mass is welcoming people in faith.
occurs and is celebrated with the bread
Then after the Prayer of the Faithful is
and wine (blood and body of Jesus). There Eucharist, then the Our Father, Holy
are many different types of Christians, for communion then ending with the closing
example, Baptist, Lutheran, Anglican and prayer.
Seventh-Day Adventist. These different
types of Christians all have the same Our Father was said throughout the mass,
beliefs, they are just taught and lived our father is a prayer to our Lord. 
differently. (History.com 2017) This prayer is used in the ritual of mass.

 After the prayer we finished mass and the


My experience at Mass priest said to go within peace and spread
the word of the Lord. It was spiritually
I was invited to a Christian mass on the 9th
connecting seeing everyone join in with
of May. In this mass I experienced a
the prayers and songs.
community that enlightened me with their
way of mass and their beliefs about their This mass is a ritual that is practised
Lord. The church was modern and had regularly throughout Christianity.
many young followers. Christians believe
that God/Jesus is their saviour and in
My Christian mass experience was
enlightening. This church was modern and
youthful as there were a lot of young
adherents at the mass. Mass educated me
on the ways of how to live an ethical life
and I believe it could educate other
teenagers as well. Christianity brings
guidance like any other religion and I
believe that if teens attend church they
will find guidance on how to live an ethical
life.

7 Dimensions of religion

Refrences
Green, R. Mass. Encyclopedia Britannica.
(2020, July 1).
https://www.britannica.com/topic/mass-
Christian-religious-service
History.com 2017, Christianity, viewed 11
May 2021,
https://www.history.com/topics/religion/
history-of-christianity

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