Theology 4 Liturgical College year 4 .pptx

Liturgical

1. Good Afternoon

2. Introduction to Liturgy and Sacraments

3. Heeding the Call Divine Liturgy makes the work of our redeemer a present actuality. Is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives , and manifest to others. The mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church.

4. Leito (‘public’)+( Ergos )’that works’)=Liturgy LITURGY Makes Redemption Present Shows the Nature of the Church

5. The Real nature of the True Church It is of the essence of the church to be both human and divine Jesus Christ is both human and divine

6. The Mystical body of Christ Visible yet endowed with invisible resources. The mystical body of Christ build up individual members by enabling subordination of the human to the divine, the visible to the Invisible, action to completion, and the world to the kingdom of God.it was Christ in his divinity and humanity who became the instrument of our salvation.

7. The Saving Work of Christ: The Paschal Mystery The Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

8. The Divine Junction This ability of the Church’s Sacred Liturgy to join the Faithful with Christ is what gives the Church power , making it the source of our spiritual lives. Because in this sacred Time Christ is made fully present to us and we are fully joined to him.

9. Conformity to Christ Christ’s life is ever-pleasing to God the Father. Christ, his best thought, his Word, is the very recipient of all his love, the holy spirit, by our conforming to Christ through Sacred Liturgy we are perfectly glorifying God and become holy.

10. Perfect Glorification The church, the Bride of Christ, cleaves and unites to him in the liturgy becoming one Mystical Body of Christ- Christ who always acts and offers perfect worship to eternal Father.

11. The Father’s will is Done: Liturgy belongs in the border of doing, not of knowing. Logical thought cannot get far with it; liturgical actions yield their intelligibility in their performance and this performance takes place at the level of sensible realities, not as exclusively material, but as vehicles overtone capable awakening the mind and heart to acceptance of realities belonging to a different order.

12. Liturgical action=Christ’s action In the liturgy by means of signs perceptible to the senses, human sanctification is signified and brought about in ways proper to each of these signs; in the liturgy the whole public worship is performed by the Mystical Body of Christ, this is by the head and his members.

13. Our Unity with Christ Let us congratulate ourselves and give thanks, that we have not only become Christians, but Christ… be astonished, rejoice, we become Christ; for when He is the head, we the members, then the whole man is He and we.

14. Fourfold presence of christ Priest – who sacramentally conforms himself to Christ Eucharist – makes present his Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity Word – it is he himself who speaks Assembly – where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them (Matt. 18:20)

15. Christ the Priest Every liturgical celebration because it is the action of Christ the Priest and of his Body which is the Church, is a sacred action surpassing all others; no other action of the church can equal its effectiveness by the same title and to the same degree.

16. The Summit and Sources Christ as an end & means “ the liturgy is the summit toward the activity of the church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all the church’s power flows.” “ the liturgy is the source for achieving the most effective way possible both human sanctification and God’s Glorification.”

17. Liturgy The ritual of illumination constrictive or expansive? Liturgy is a precise model meant to effectuate a precise result; the church and make present Christ. Liturgy is not be-all, end-all of the Christian life; we still pray in private, we still must undergo conversion, we still must go into the world and bear witness. The elements of the Sacred Liturgy are meant to challenge us, confound us, and call us out of ourselves and our comfort zones.

18. The Physics of unity In the Church’s liturgy the divine blessing is fully revealed and communicated. The Father acknowledged and adore as the source and the end of all the blessings of creation and salvation. In his word who became incarnate, died and rose for us, he fill us with his blessings. Through his word, he pours into our hearts the gift that contains all gifts, the Holy Spirit .” CCC 1082

19. The Unifier When the spirit encounters in us the response of faith which he has arouse in us, he brings about the genuine cooperation. Through it, the liturgy becomes the common work of the holy spirit and the Church. CCC 1091

20. The lord and giver of life The work of Christ’s liturgy is an action of the church with engages new life in the Faithful through the working of the Holy Spirit. “ The whole liturgical life of the Church revolves around the Eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments.” CCC 1113

21. A sacrament is a sign that commemorates what precedes it- Christ’s Passion; demonstrates what is accomplished in us through Christ’s Passion- grace; & prefigures what the passion pledges to us- future glory”

22. “Sacraments are efficacious sign of grace, instituted by christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life id dispensed” CCC 1131

23. Baptism ( John 3:5, Mk 16:16, Mt 28:18)

24. Confirmation ( Acts 8:14-17, 19:5-6)

25. Eucharist( John 6, 1 Cor. 10-11)

26. Reconciliation ( James 5:16, John 20: 21-23)

27. Anointing of the Sick ( Mk 6:13, James 5:14-15)

28. Marriage (Mt 19:6)

29. Holy Orders (John 19-23)

30. Through the Sacrament we are born into community- the Church. We are made children of God and nurtured for rest of our life that we may achieved our ultimate end- entrance into the communion of the most Holy Trinity through membership in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Son.