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The Offertory Chant is sung at Mass while the gifts of bread and wine are brought to the altar.

The Creed may not be the most boring part of Mass, but in many churches, it contends mightily. It's long.

We pray to the Lord at every Mass, but it didn't used to be that way. Vatican II created a new set of prayers after the Creed.

When the priest or deacon announces the Gospel at Mass, the people respond, "Glory to you, O Lord."

We often call the Responsorial Psalm the "response" to the First Reading. That's true, but it's really "responsorial" since it has a responsory - a refrain that occurs with each verse.