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Eucharistic Minister Training, Part II

Eucharistic Minister Training, Part II . Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. Who/What is a Eucharistic Minister?. A Eucharistic Minister is a lay person authorized to administer the Consecrated Elements at a Celebration of the Holy Eucharist.

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Eucharistic Minister Training, Part II

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  1. Eucharistic Minister Training, Part II Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real

  2. Who/What is a Eucharistic Minister? • A Eucharistic Minister is a lay person authorized to administer the Consecrated Elements at a Celebration of the Holy Eucharist. • A Eucharistic Minister should normally act under the direction a Deacon, if any, or otherwise, the Member of the Clergy or other leader exercising oversight of the congregation or other community of faith.

  3. Eucharistic Ministers must be at least 16 years old Confirmed Those 18 and older should also be pledging members of the congregation Additional Requirements: Our Bishop requires:

  4. The Sacraments In Liturgy as in life, the stakes are high. Nathan Mitchell

  5. Sacraments • Sacraments are outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace, given by Christ as sure and certain means by which we receive that grace. • Grace is God’s favor toward us, unearned and undeserved; by grace God forgives our sins, enlightens our minds, stirs our hearts, and strengthens our wills. (BCP, pp. 857-858)

  6. Sacraments • Outward and visible actions that make us aware of and present to God’s loving presence and action in our lives [Westerhoff] • Our spirituality tends to be mystical (seeking an experience of God) emphasizing a lifelong pilgrimage of growing into an ever-deepening and loving relationship with God. [Westerhoff]

  7. What are the two great sacraments of the gospel? The two great sacraments given by Christ to his Church are Holy Baptism and Holy Eucharist. (BCP p. 858) What other sacramental rites evolved in the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit? Confirmation Ordination Holy Matrimony Reconciliation of a Penitent Unction (BCP p. 860) Sacraments

  8. Sacraments • Sacraments make real; they do not make true • We do not baptize people so that God will love them; we baptize to make God’s choice and acceptance of them real by means of this sacramental action. • Sacraments are not magical acts; we do not force Christ to be present in places Christ has not already chosen to be. [Lee]

  9. Baptism and Eucharist • Baptism is the foundation of our identity as Christians • We are baptized once; we renew our baptism at every eucharist so that we may be nurtured and nourished to live into the fullness of our baptism.

  10. Eucharist Through our weekly participation in the Eucharist • We are reconstituted as Christ’s body, • Infused with Christ’s character, • Empowered to be Christ’s presence in the world [Westerhoff]

  11. Eucharist When we participate in the eucharist • We come to experience life in the Reign of God where all people are restored to unity with God and each other in Christ and where God’s will is known and done, • So that we can return to our daily lives and work as a sign and witness to God’s Reign [Westerhoff]

  12. Through participation in the Eucharist we grow in faith, hope, and love. • Faith: perception: how we image God, life, and our own lives • Hope: the assurance that God is present in human life and history • Love: the experience of God’s live-giving, life-transforming action in our lives that makes it possible for us to be a reconciled and reconciling community, a sign and witness to the Reign of God. [Westerhoff]

  13. Eucharist • Each week we bring our lives in their brokenness and incompleteness as a sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God • So that God may take our lives and transform them and give them back to us made whole [Westerhoff]

  14. Eucharistic Theology • Is Christ really present? How? • When do the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ? • Roman Catholic: words of institution • Eastern Orthodox: epiclesis: invocation of the Holy Spirit • Anglicans: Eucharistic prayer as a whole; no one part consecrates

  15. Anglican Eucharistic Theology • When the Christian community meets to do the whole Eucharistic action in obedience to the risen Lord, he comes. He gives himself to us, again and again. [Weil/Price]

  16. Anglican Eucharistic Theology Queen Elizabeth I He was the Word that spake it, He took thebread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it.

  17. The Sunday Liturgy • Liturgy: the work of the people • Public work whose purpose is the praise of God and the incorporation of human beings into the divine life. • Our culture: ritual impoverishment sacramental minimalism prayer as private conversation [Lee]

  18. The Sunday Liturgy • Liturgy is not the words on the page, but ritual activity • A human activity of making and communicating meaning • Good liturgy demands good ritual, the strong, repeated, and repeatable actions in which human beings find layers of meaning. • These actions create and communicate meaning. [Lee]

  19. The Sunday Liturgy • When we come together on Sunday, we gather for Common Prayer. • Even personal prayer is fundamentally ecclesial in nature; when Christians pray, they do so with the church, not in isolation, even if they are alone. • The reforms of the 1979 BCP were motivated by a desire to foster genuinely communal prayer. [Lee]

  20. The Sunday Liturgy Every Eucharist: four basic parts The Gathering The Liturgy of the Word The Liturgy of the Table The Dismissal An Order for Celebrating the Holy Eucharist [Rite III] gives a basic outline of the Eucharist [BCP p. 400]

  21. The Sunday Liturgy The Liturgy of the Word • Gather in the Lord’s Name • Proclaim and Respond to the Word of God • Pray for the World and the Church • Exchange the Peace

  22. The Sunday Liturgy The Liturgy of the Table • Prepare the Table • Make Eucharist • Break the Bread • Share the Gifts of God

  23. The Liturgy of the Word Gathering in the Lord’s name: • Entrance song • Opening Acclamation • [Collect for Purity] • [Confession and Absolution] • Song of Praise • Collect of the Day

  24. The Liturgy of the Word Proclaim and Respond to the Word of God • Hebrew Scripture Reading [Acts during Easter] • Psalm • Epistle • Gospel • Sermon • Creed

  25. The Liturgy of the Word Revised Common Lectionary • First compiled in 1983 • Based on lectionary developed by Vatican II in 1969 • Three year cycle of lessons [replacing one year cycle in 1928 BCP] • Year A: Matthew Year B: Mark • Year C: Luke Lent/Easter: John

  26. The Liturgy of the Word RCL Hebrew Scripture Readings: Sundays after Pentecost: two tracks • Year A: Genesis through Judges • Year B: the Davidic Covenant and Wisdom Literature • Year C: the Prophets: Elijah, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, and Habbakuk • Or OT readings related the Gospel

  27. About Scripture • Anglicans: diffuse authority comprised of scripture, tradition, and reason/experience [3-legged stool] Jews: threefold Torah • Written Torah: books of Moses • Oral Torah: tradition of interpretation passed down by word of mouth • Silent Torah: that which emerges from a deep spiritual quiet through which God speaks in the present.

  28. About Scripture • God’s revelation was to be both inside and outside the scriptures, guarded and guided by the Holy Spirit [Westerhoff] About reason: • Reason in this case means prayerful reflection of experience that makes possible new understandings of scripture and interpretations of tradition. [Westerhoff]

  29. On the Creed • The response to this conversation on the Word of God is the Nicene Creed … To believe is to give our love and loyalty to the triune God revealed through the creed. The Christian faith is a way of life, more than the intellectual acceptance of particular doctrines or propositional truths. [Westerhoff]

  30. On the Creed, Part 2 • Originally, the eucharistic prayer was regarded as the church’s profession of faith. Gradually, the Nicene Creed made its way into the liturgy, as the church sought to define and maintain its doctrinal formulations in the face of various heretical movements. [Lee]

  31. Pray for the Church and the World Prayer is offered with intercession for • The Universal Church, its members, and its mission • The nation and all in authority • The welfare of the world • The concerns of the local community • Those who suffer and those in any trouble • The departed

  32. The Liturgy of the Table Prepare the Table • Offertory: the presentation of the elements for the Eucharist and the gifts of the people • Preparation of the elements

  33. Holy Hardware/Yahweh’s Yardgoods Terms to Know: • Fair Linen • Corporal • Paten/Chalice • Purificator • Flagon/Cruet • Lavabo bowl and towel

  34. The Eucharistic Prayer • Sursum corda [Lift up your hearts] • Proper preface • Sanctus [Holy, holy, holy] • Eucharistic Prayer • Great Amen • The Lord’s Prayer

  35. Make Eucharist Classic Fourfold Shape: • Bread and wine prepared • Elements blessed • Bread broken • Bread and wine given

  36. The Eucharistic Prayer Classic Elements • Thanksgiving [salvation history] • Anamnesis [remembering] • Words of Institution • Episclesis [Holy Spirit] • Doxology

  37. Break the Bread/Share the Gifts of God • Essentially a practical action but also one of ritual importance: The disciples knew the Lord Jesus in the breaking of the bread. • Period of silence • Then follows the Fraction Anthem during which additional chalices are filled, etc.

  38. Share the Gifts of God The Words of Administration: • The Body of Christ, the bread of heaven • The Blood of Christ, the cup of salvation. • Consecrated bread and wine should be reverently consumed and/or appropriately handled, either immediately following the communion of the people or following the service. Check with your priest.

  39. The Liturgy of the Table • After receiving communion, the congregation gives thanks and receives a blessing. • The dismissal restored in the 1979 BCP: Having renewed their baptismal identity as the servant body of Christ, the people are sent out in peace to love and serve the Lord.

  40. The Liturgy of the Table • After the act of communion, anything else is almost certain to be anticlimax. The service should come to an end as quickly as possible. … By the dismissal, the congregation is sent forth to do God’s work in God’s world. …

  41. The Liturgy of the Table • The dismissal marks the Eucharist as a missionary service, commissioning and empowering all of us to be missioners and ministers of the Gospel of Christ. … Mission and Eucharist are opposite sides of one coin. [Price/Weil]

  42. The Liturgy of the Table • Open our eyes to see your hand at work in the world about us. Deliver us from the presumption of coming to this Table for solace only, and not for strength; for pardon only, and not for renewal. [Eucharistic Prayer C, BCP p. 372]

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