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¶ … version Mass "American Missal" wise called "Anglica Explication of the Outlined Theological Significance of the Ordinary of the Mass The American Missal is a book of liturgies often used by practitioners of the Anglican faith. The vast majority of the liturgies within this manuscript apply to the Eucharist celebration, and are typically used by Anglo-Catholics and Anglicans in place of the Book of Common Prayer, which is another popular text containing prayers within the Anglican faith.

The Ordinary of the Mass is a two page section of the American Missal, which is also called the Anglican Missal and provides the specific meditations of the various components that comprise the Eucharist sacrament, which is the acceptance of the blood and body of Jesus to replace the sins of humanity -- or at least those who are willing to believe in the Christ's divinity and omnipotence of God himself.

The Ordinary of the Mass is partitioned into six essential segments: the deliverance of the Antiphon, the repetition of the Antiphon, Confession, Absolution, and a final affirmation of the forgiving potency of Christ to restore the sins of humanity. Each of these components of The Ordinary of the Mass has a specific theological basis for its invocation, which is explicated below.

The initial Antiphon provides for the part of this liturgy in which mankind, as represented by both a priest and a server, must fully acknowledge its sins to be received in earnest by the Christ.

The Priest begins this part of the ceremony by affirming the divinity of Christ as represented through the Holy Trinity "the Father, and of the Son, of and of the Holy Ghost," since it is the concept of Christ's divinity and his sacrificial crucifixion which is thought to redeem those of the Christian and Anglican faith.

After acknowledging that he will approach the altar which represents the power and authority of God, the priest confirms the sins of mankind (as largely being represented by him) and asks for God's absolving the wrongdoing of mankind. The approaching of the altar with a heavy heart and spirit ("Why art thou so heavy, O my soul?") symbolizes the theological importance of the initial admission of sin as being the first step towards being forgiven and actually overcoming it.

The repeating of the Antiphon is the briefest section of The Ordinary of the Mass and serves to underpin the Biblical meaning of the original Antiphon, which is to acknowledge the sins and wrongdoing of one's life so that such a life may be expiated before and by Jesus.

The fact that this part of the liturgy contains the phrase "Our help is in the Name of the Lord" illustrates the notion that the omnipotence of God as reflected in the Christ and the Holy Ghost can "help" or aid man's suffering from moral transgressions.

The next sector of the Ordinary of the Mass, Confession, represents the symbolic voicing of man's wrongdoing before both Christ and several of his saints and those who bore witness to his divinity such as apostles Peter and Paul, the Virgin Mary, and Michael the Archangel.

Confession is the part of the liturgy where man gives voice to his transgressions, and acknowledges them as his fault, which is symbolized in the ceremony by the priest striking his breast saying "by my fault, by my own fault, by my own most grievous fault." Following this segment of the liturgy, Absolution is the component in which Christ's forgiveness is actualized by those who are willing to repent in his name.

The faithful partaking in the Eucharist observe and acknowledge this fundamental theological concept by saying "The Almighty and merciful Lord grant us pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins." This concept correlates with the fact that the crucifixion of Jesus was the symbolic representation (which many believe to be literal as well) of his demise and confirmation of the fact that his death and rebirth would allow for the spiritual rebirth of all who believed in Him.

Absolution is the realization of this rebirth, and the redemption of the soul which gave his life to God. The segment of this section in which church goers ask Christ to "grant us thy salvation" emphasizes the fact that God can give just such salvation from the power of deliverance of Jesus' ultimate sacrifice.

The final segment of the Ordinary of the Mass commences with the final prayer of the liturgy, and contains the part of the ceremony in which the representation of the Eucharist, which symbolizes the body and blood of Christ through the usage of bread and wine, is acknowledged as the means by which absolution is achieved. The fact that the church faithful are asking to "be worthy to enter with pure minds into the Holy of holies; through Christ our Lord," acknowledges the integral role that Jesus and.