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In this, the fifth video from Fr Douglas Martis who has just stepped down as Director of the Liturgical Institute, Mundelein. He describes the purpose of the four processions of the Mass: Entrance, Gospel, Offertory and Communion. These processions symbolize our movement, as an assembly of people, to heaven. 

As he describes this I am reminded of a Melkite priest who pointed out to me how these same processions are more obviously processed, so to speak, in the Eastern Liturgy.

Also, I was told once also that the Sarum Liturgy, the pre-Reformation Catholic liturgy of the Church in England had a strong tradition of extended processions. It has been speculated that this is why for example, the gothic Salisbury Cathedral (Sarum is the old name for Salisbury) has a long cloistered walk into the cathedral. It was not a monastic design, but rather intended to allow for these Sarum Liturgy processions.