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INTRODUCTION TO LITURGY

INTRODUCTION TO LITURGY. Matthew 26:26-28 THE REAL JESUS TOOK REAL BREAD AND WINE AND IDENTIFIED HIMSELF WITH IT. VII. THE FOUR PARTS OF LITURGY. INTRODUCTORY RITES LITURGY OF THE WORD LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST CONCLUDING RITES. A . INTRODUCTORY RITES.

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INTRODUCTION TO LITURGY

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  1. INTRODUCTION TO LITURGY Matthew 26:26-28 THE REAL JESUS TOOK REAL BREAD AND WINE AND IDENTIFIED HIMSELF WITH IT.

  2. VII. THE FOUR PARTS OF LITURGY • INTRODUCTORY RITES • LITURGY OF THE WORD • LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST • CONCLUDING RITES

  3. A. INTRODUCTORY RITES

  4. The celebration of Mass is similar for the Christian community. • We never come in expecting just to sit down and immediately hear the scriptures. • There are normal patterns, accepted things we do to get us in the proper mood, to help us begin, to prepare us for what follows.

  5. “Gathering” Liturgy—something done byeveryone TOGETHER

  6. IF WE WORK AT IT, WE WON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT WE ARE ONE IN CHRIST; WE'LL ACT LIKE WE ARE. • USHERS SPECIALIZE IN WHAT WE MUST DO FOR ONE ANOTHER: • ALL ARE WELCOME HERE

  7. WHAT WE HAVE IN COMMON IS OUR BAPTISM!!!! • That’s all that matters. • That’s why rich and poor should be sitting side by side. • All barriers that society erects to keep us apart are worthless here. • ALL EXTERNALS ARE GONE! • All that we wear is Christ. • That’s why we come together... • THAT IS THE PREPARATION FOR MASS.

  8. A CHURCH READY TO HEAR GOD’S WORD

  9. PARTS OF THE INTRODUCTORY RITES; • ACTIVITY: ORDER OF THE INTRODUCTORY RITES

  10. 1. GATHERING PROCESSION/SONG • The entrance rite doesn’t mean the entrance of the priest and the other ministers. • It means the entrance of all of us together into the liturgy. • Some may be in the ritual procession, but in reality we are all in procession, all moving into our liturgy.

  11. 2. VENERATION OF THE ALTAR • THEOLOGY- • The veneration of the altar at the beginning of Mass is an act of greeting which recalls that the common table is holy and sacred to the action of the assembly. • It is the place from which prayer ascends like incense before God.

  12. 3. SIGN OF THE CROSS/GREETING

  13. 4. PENITENTIAL RITE/SPRINKLING RITE • The purpose of the penitential rite is to prepare for celebrating the mysteries and to draw down God's mercy (graciousness) • In the penitential rite the whole assembly proclaiming itself sinful before a merciful and forgiving God, shows that it is a community every converting, ever in need of reconciliation with God and others.

  14. 5. LORD HAVE MERCY • THEOLOGY- • The Kyrie was originally not a penitential cry • but rather a cry of homage and petition (Have mercy = be gracious, hear our prayers.) • The acclamation praises the risen Christ for his goodness and implores his bounty on behalf of all humankind.

  15. 6. GLORY TO GOD

  16. 7. OPENING PRAYER

  17. II. LITURGY OF THE WORD We are to be a church ready to listen to its BOOK. What kind of a church will listen well to its book?

  18. WE COME HERE AS HUNGRY INDIVIDUALS, NEEDY PEOPLE SO WE ARE A HUNGRY CHURCH.

  19. A WORD ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES • 3 on Sunday – • Old Testament • Letters of the New Testament • THE GOSPELS • In 3 years we read from many parts of this collection • A-Matthew • B-Mark • C-Luke • John - Advent, Lent, Eastertime, • We are currently in Cycle C • Think of it this way: • As we travel through centuries, one generation after another - we carry with us a book - a book we believe is FOUNDATION of our life together as a people. • In each generation we read it again and again.

  20. Reading Scripture is not simply for our information not INFORMATIVE but PERFORMATIVE • "I love you" - active, transforming, effective, CREATIVE • Scripture is God's "I love you" - renewal of covenant - a constant • *Podcast Fr. Robert Barron “The Real Presence of the Eucharist” Jesus and the Power of Words:

  21. When the book is opened - we fix our eyes on reader and we LISTEN.We are supposed to cling to the words, cling to them like life itself • FOR THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE!

  22. Activity • Ordertheparts of theLiturgy of the Word

  23. PARTS OF THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

  24. 1. FIRST READING • From the Old Testament/Hebrew Scriptures (except during Eastertime) • Pause-- silence. • Silence means we have time for this.

  25. 2. RESPONSORIAL PSALM • Whenever possible, this psalm is sung.

  26. 3. SECOND READING ALWAYS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT (THEOLOGY) • IN THE SECOND READING THE ASSEMBLY ENCOUNTERS THE EARLY CHURCH LIVING ITS CHRISTIAN FAITH. • THE WITNESS OF THE APOSTOLIC COMMUNITY PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL TIME OF OUR CALL TO LOVE THE FATHER ENFLESHED IN JESUS.

  27. 4. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION • The text announced and we respond? (“Glory to you, Lord" ) • As we do so we sign our forehead, lips and heart with the cross. • With this gesture we show that the Gospel SPEAKS to our minds, FORMS our words, CHANGES our hearts.

  28. WE SURROUND THE GOSPEL WITH SUCH SIGNS OF REVERENCE AND AFFECTION BECAUSE THAT GOSPEL IS FOR US THE SAVING POWER OF GOD.

  29. 5. THE GOSPEL • We listen from one of the Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John • THE GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION, A LIVING WORD, IS PROCLAIMED BY THE RISEN LORD.

  30. 6. HOMILY • Listen to one who has pondered the readings to see what they might mean in the life of this church.

  31. 7. PROFESSION OF FAITH (CREED) • We stand and recite one of the ancient formulas of faith, a creed, • A WAY OF SUMMING UP THE BELIEF OF THIS CHURCH.

  32. 8. GENERAL INTERCESSIONS • The Liturgy of the Word concludes with prayers of intercession called the PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL. • The Church is doing something here that gets to the work of being a Christian. WE INTERCEDE!!!

  33. OVERVIEW OF THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST(taken from the Mystery of Faith) • Factors that exerted great influence upon the structure of the eucharistic celebration: • 1. certain practical difficulties in serving a regular meal every week to an increasingly large number of people. • 2. certain divisive abuses occurred in conjunction with the common meal • 3. Once Christianity began to spread into Gentile milieu, danger that Eucharist could be confused with meals associated with pagan mystery religions. • As a consequence, Two major changes occurred. • 1. The Eucharist was disengaged from the meal and eventually completely apart from the meal. • 2. ritual simplification took place.

  34. TheActionsof JesusBecomeFour • TAKE 1. bread and wine were TAKEN and placed on the table together • BLESS 2. one prayer of thanksgiving to God was offered over the bread and wine together. • BREAK 3. the bread was then broken • SHARE 4. the bread and wine distributed. • Although the precise details of this evolution are not always clear, all historically known liturgies have preserved this 4-action shape of the Eucharist.

  35. LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST - comes from Greek - has to do withGIVING THANKS WITH PRAISE AND WITH BLESSING.

  36. Activity • Ordertheparts of theLiturgy of theEucharist

  37. PARTS OF THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST 1. PREPARATION OF THE ALTAR

  38. 2. PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS

  39. 3. PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

  40. 4. Prayer over the Gifts • When all is ready, we stand up. • "“LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS"” • And we answer, “We lift them up to the Lord”. • Then the presider gives the invitation to do that deed that is the very heart not of the liturgy only but of Christian life: • “LET US GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD OUR GOD” • And we say, “It is right and just.”

  41. 5. EUCHARISTIC PRAYER • RememberThisis a MealPrayer

  42. RememberThisis a MealPrayer • God is given all thanks and praise, not in the abstract but at a table on which are the bread and wine intended for the food and drink of this assembly. • So this prayer echoes with all the meal blessings we say in our lives. • All our thanks gravitate toward the body given up for the life of the world, toward the blood of the new and everlasting covenant blood that was shed for all that sins might be forgiven.

  43. AMEN • To all of this we give our firm assent, our AMEN. • The Eucharistic prayer depends on and ends with this AMEN. • We say Amen. • To say Amen is our duty and our right, as this people who died in baptism and live now in Christ.

  44. 6. LORD’S PRAYER

  45. 7. SIGN OF PEACE – Christ’s peace

  46. 8. BREAKING OF THE BREAD THAT ACT OF TAKING A LARGE LOAF OF BREAD AND BREAKING IT INTO PIECES CAUGHT THE ESSENCE OF THEIR GATHERING. Here was the one and the many; here was Christ of whom they were all members.

  47. 9. LAMB OF GOD

  48. 10. COMMUNION • We who are hungry and thirsty come forward to the table. • We fast before Mass because to be here at all is to be hungry and thirsty in our hearts and minds and even our bodies. • When we stand one by one before the minister and hear the words, “The Body of Christ” “The blood of Christ” we have to know what Augustine told his congregation hundreds of years ago. • He said, “It is your own mystery that you receive. . .Say Amen to what you are!”

  49. 11. PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION • And when the great procession is over, then there can be a great silence, a needed time for contemplation of this wonder. • In silence, too, we are in communion. • Podcast Reflection: The Biblical Roots of the Eucharist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78IziLQb658

  50. Activity • Ordertheparts of theConcludingRite

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