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54 to a oonsiderable extent. However, it is the celebrant who is sponsilile for gathering together and surrming up and, perhaps, even placing these petitions in their proper oontext. Sane of the structures currently in use in our camrunities provide for an ductory nonition .imrediately before the IDrd's Prayer, but also diately after a series of spontaneous petitions.A nonition at this spot is ideal for unifying the preceding petitions. This insertion of ''real life" in our celebrations is an important point to which we shall return. If the litany-prayer in the strict sense is to serve its ftmction, there are several conditions which have to be net: There should be a certain harrogeneity between the various intentions, an overall rll.ythm for the enserrble. The response by the comm.mity should be adapted to the intentions.A doxological acclamation ought not to be stmg after a petition for giveness or sarething similar.This response should be simple and "open", that is to say, suitable to serve as a link between particular tions and general intentions. Here again, it would be a good thing to have a certain variety as regards the fonn of the litany-prayer. The r e s p o n s o r i a l p s a l m and the A l l e l u i a V e r s e It seems to be clear that at Mass, especially when there are only t:v.o ings, the response to the first reading can vary: silence, responsorial psalm, alleluia-psalm••• Should a r e s p o n s o r i a 1 p s a 1 m be used, we are ( evidently faced with the same problem of having a ooherent 1IR1Sical and textual link tween the refrain and what the psalmist sings -a problem already discussed with regard to the responsories. It should be noted, as was already done at the
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