By Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register - When a newly ordained priest celebrates his first Mass, one of his final gestures is often not toward the congregation, but toward his mother... In his hands is a simple strip of linen — a manutergium, used days earlier at his ordination to wipe the sacred chrism oil from his newly anointed hands. At the end of the Mass, he places it in her hands, entrusting her with a quiet but profound symbol of his vocation: one she will carry, by tradition, to the grave. ...