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Penance Service during Mass?

Question

Question

For Lent, we wanted to have an elongated Penance Service during Mass and the Penitential Rite. Is this OK?

--Pondering in Pittsburgh

Answer

Answer

"The Sacrament should be regularly scheduled at times convenient for the faithful, but not during the celebration of Mass" (Congregation for Divine Worship, Eucharisticum Mysterium, 35).