ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns some of the ways in which the Experience of Worship project sought to create a framework within which participants could explore the experience of the medieval laity. It focuses on the enactments of the Mass, particularly those set in the parochial context provided by St Teilo's Church at St Fagans Museum. One of the most powerful moments for the lay folk was the Pax separated from the priestly liturgy in the chancel, or in more intimate contact with the priest in the Jesus Aisle. During the enactment of the Lady Mass at St Teilo, there was a little jostling among the women in their eagerness to receive the Pax-board. As part of the furnishing of the Jesus Aisle at St Teilo's for the Mass of the Holy Name, a small portable reredos was made for the altar, painted with the Five Wounds of Christ, a popular image at the end of the middle Ages.
