2023 Lenten Series - Danielle Van Haute, "The Mass Is Prayer"

The Associate Director of Evangelization for the Diocese of Baton Rouge, Danielle Van Haute takes listeners through the Mass, instructing them how to pray at each point in the liturgy: at the Confiteor, the Collect, the readings, the homily, the Offertory, Holy Communion, and the dismissal. The Mass is the great prayer of the Church and we are never there alone nor are we there just for ourselves to worship the Lord, Danielle says, but we are there for the Mystical Body, always joined by the entire Church. She says it is very important to prepare for Mass with hearts open and turned to the Lord to receive His grace-His very Self. Our personal prayer life affects the disposition we bring to Mass. We also should go forth from the Mass with the proper disposition, ready to live more present to Christ and to encounter Him in our brothers and sisters. Danielle encourages listeners to ask God to show them how He is drawing them deeper into the prayer of the Mass. He will answer, she says; He does not want to make it difficult!