What Is Said When You Beat Your Heart 3times During Catholic Eucharist?
My grandmother would thump her heart with her fist 3 times during the eucharist and she would whisper something but I never got to ask her what she was saying and what it meant to do that!!!
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Hello,
Mea culpa; mea culpa; mea maxima culpa.
Latin for through my fault; through my fault; through my most grevious fault.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
RC
Yeah, what Mike said. Does anyone still do that? I remember my mother used to do it, but I don’t think anymore. Keep in mind she went to Catholic school in the 1940’s.
Somewhere or another I have read that it is a common practice in Mexico, not sure about other countries, to say “Dios mio, senor mio” during the eucharistic prayer. A translation is “My Lord and my God”.
It isn’t part of the liturgy any more but the Mass used to include an Act of Contrition, part of which were the words “through my fault; through my fault; through my most grievous fault”. It was at those words that the accompanying action was done.
Mea culpa - “My sin”