He goes up to the altar and reverences it with a kiss
Neither. A priest celebrates a mass.
The lead Priest in a Mass is the Celebrant.
The priest said Mass.
A Priest is the leader in prayer during the mass.
Anyone may serve at Mass IF the priest celebrating the Mass allows, it would be up to the individual priest who was the celebrant.
A priest (Refereing to a Catholic) does mass as transfiguration / communion as transubstation and a vicar does a service in rememberance only. If i was you, i would go for option one , it is a true mass.
theocrat
A Priest is the leader in prayer during the mass.
The priest leading the celebration of Mass can be called Father [name]. Sometimes the priest is referred to by his position, pastor, but not usually during Mass.
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theocrat
The syllabication of the word "genuflect" is gen-u-flect.