The day’s antiphon, read at the Epistle side. At a sung Mass the choir has already sung it during the distribution of Communion.
The priest kisses the altar, greets the people, and returns to the Epistle side for the closing prayer — as many prayers as there were collects.on the ferias of Lent an Orátio super pópulum is added
The priest turns to the people and dismisses them with Ite, missa est. The server answers Deo grátias.when a procession follows the Mass the dismissal is Benedicámus Dómino, and at Masses for the Dead Requiéscant in pace
Dicto, post ultimam Orationem,
After the last prayer following Communion the priest says:
priest
priest:
server and faithful everyone answers
server and faithful:
dicit pro Missæ qualitate, vel Ite, Missa est, vel Benedicámus Dómino. Deo grátias.
Turned toward the people, the priest says “Ite, Missa est”, and the server answers “Deo grátias”. Where “Benedicámus Dómino” is said instead, he says it at the middle of the altar, facing it.
priest:
server and faithful:
In Missis Defunctorum dicit: Requiéscant in pace. Amen.
In Masses for the Dead the priest says instead, facing the altar: Requiéscant in pace — and the answer is Amen.
the priest prays silently
The priest raises his eyes, extends his hands, and blesses the people with one sign of the cross.at Masses for the Dead no blessing is given
Deinde osculatur Altare: et elevatis oculis, extendens, elevans et iungens manus, caputque Cruci inclínans, dicit:
Then the priest kisses the altar, raises his eyes, extends, lifts and joins his hands, bows his head to the Cross, and says:
priest
priest:
et versus ad populum, semel tantum benedícens, etiam in Missis sollemnibus; In Missa Pontificali ter benedicitur, ut in Pontificali habetur. Deinde prosequitur:
Turning toward the people, the priest blesses them once and continues:
priest:
server and faithful everyone answers
server and faithful:
In Missis Defunctorum non datur benedíctio, sed dicto Requiéscant in pace, dicit: Pláceat tibi, sancta Trínitas; deinde osculato Altari, legit Evangelium sancti Ioannis.
In Masses for the Dead no blessing is given. After Requiéscant in pace the priest says Pláceat tibi, sancta Trínitas, kisses the altar and, if the Last Gospel is to be said, reads the Gospel of Saint John.
At the Gospel side the priest reads the prologue of Saint John. At Et Verbum caro factum est everyone genuflects.
Deinde sacerdos in cornu Evangelii, iunctis manibus dicit:
Then the priest, at the Gospel side with hands joined, says:
priest
priest:
server and faithful everyone answers
server and faithful:
Et signans signo crucis primum Altare vel librum, deinde se in fronte, ore et pectore, dicit:
And signing with the sign of the cross first the altar or the book, then himself on the forehead, the lips and the breast, the priest says:
priest:
server and faithful:
Iunctis manibus prosequitur:
With his hands joined the priest continues:
priest:
Genuflectit dicens:
The priest genuflects and says:
priest:
Et surgens prosequitur:
The priest rises and continues:
priest:
server and faithful:
The priest kneels at the foot of the altar and begins three Hail Marys with the people, who answer the second half of each.after low Mass, and omitted after a sung Mass
The antiphon is said by all together, and a versicle follows it: the priest says “Pray for us”, and the people answer.
The collect with which the priest closes the antiphon. Leo XIII asked in it for the freedom of the Church. Since 1930 these prayers have been offered for Russia.
The prayer to St Michael the Archangel, composed by Leo XIII himself.
The invocation that ends the prayers, said three times. Pius X added it in 1904.