You truly have the heart of a Shepherd Father Patrick, I pray many priests follow your example. I am extremely thankful to God for your vocation.

Good morning and God bless you Fr Patrick 🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻

I appreciate what you're doing at your parish about the Sign of Peace. It can run over into the Lamb of God and the Fraction Rite, distracting from why we're present at Mass.

I commend you for wanting to have the deep spiritual presence of God during mass. My favorite divine liturgy is the Byzantine liturgy. There is no offering of peace to one another, and it is for me a much deeper experience of the presence of God than in the western rite liturgies. Byzantine Catholicism for me is the deep spiritual experience that you speak of in your homily. hope everyone in any rite of a mass experiences this.