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EUCHARISTIC INVITATION
Liturgical request by a priest at Mass, while showing the people the sacred Host, asking them to receive Holy Communion. Together with him they express sentiments of humility in the words of the centurion in the Gospel.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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