Sunday Mass (Roman Rite)

experimentNo. 0032categoryRituals & ceremoniesrecordingpendingrunsin browserdataCC BY 4.0

The fly attends a condensed Sunday Mass in Ordinary Time as one of 24 fly parishioners, following U.S. postures and receiving Communion individually from the priest.

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Setup

• 46 stages, from arrival and the entrance procession through the readings, Eucharistic Prayer and Communion to dismissal and departure.
• 24 fly parishioners including the subject, a fly priest and two fly servers; two parishioners also serve as reader and psalmist.
• An original procedural church: vaulted nave, jewel glass, rear rose window, organ gallery, six rows of pews with kneelers, ambo, altar, crucifix and tabernacle.
• Six cameras: nave, altar, congregation, Communion, ambo and stained glass.

Measurement

• Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights.
• Postures, movements and handling of liturgical objects are pre-programmed and modified for a six-legged fly.
• The activity does not measure belief, prayer, sacramental validity or religious experience.

Limitations

• A condensed visual representation without spoken prayers, Scripture readings, a homily recording or music. English cue summaries do not reproduce the Missal.
• No calendar date, readings, homily or musical setting is selected; optional incense, sprinkling and announcements are omitted.
• Architecture, travel speeds and timing are modeled, not taken from a measured parish recording.

Sources

• USCCB, Order of Mass
• USCCB, Liturgy of the Word
• USCCB, Liturgy of the Eucharist
• General Instruction of the Roman Missal, chapter II
• General Instruction of the Roman Missal, chapter IV
• Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church