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BECOME ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT IN CHRIST

BECOME ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT IN CHRIST. We offer the sacrifice. PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORM. The priestly people offer the sacrifice. Then the priest offered the Mass on our behalf. Now ministerial and common priestly people together offer the sacrifice. Crafting the Art of Liturgy The Assembly.

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BECOME ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT IN CHRIST

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  1. BECOME ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT IN CHRIST We offer the sacrifice

  2. PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORM • The priestly people offer the sacrifice

  3. Then the priest offered the Mass on our behalf Now ministerial and common priestly peopletogetheroffer the sacrifice

  4. Crafting the Art of LiturgyThe Assembly

  5. Augustine Just as we call all Christians ‘Christs’ in virtue of their mystical anointing, so we call them all ‘priests’ because they are all members of the one Priest. The City of God against the Pagans. XX Chapter 10.

  6. Augustine You were asking what you should offer for yourself. Offer yourself. What, after all, is the Lord asking from you, but you yourself. Because in the whole earthly creation, he made nothing better than you. He asked yourself from you. Sermonpreached in the Celerina Basilica.48:2

  7. Augustine If there is no sacrifice there can be no priest. Exposition of Ps 130: 4

  8. Christian Initiation Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord’s own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist. CCC 1322

  9. WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE? When we talk about the way we respond to each other in LOVEwe are talking about Christian sacrifice The source of this love and its perfection is found only in God Robert Daly sj

  10. A key to understanding Christian Sacrifice … We can only experience sacrifice that is Christian in the flesh and blood of our human experiences … Think of a time when you were aware you were loved, perhaps by a parent or a friend. Or think of a time when you did a loving act for another. Share something of that experience with the person beside you

  11. A mutual, loving encounter that is free and self-giving and takes place between two persons ‘God is love…’ This is Christian Sacrifice

  12. Christian Sacrifice is Trinitarian • The Father’s abundant love for the created is so abundant that God becomes human in Jesus. • Jesus lives his life fully in love even unto death • When we love each other, through the power of God’s Spirit we also enter into that divine Father-Son relationship. Robert Daly sj: Sacrifice Unveiled

  13. Sacrifice but not Christian • Something that we give up • Enduring a situation that is harmful or unjust - justifying suffering • ‘Self sacrifice’ that leads to loss of identity • Giving up what you love • Something that is done to or imposed

  14. We bring gifts • Bread and wine • Collection for the poor ‘It is the sacrament of yourself that is placed on the Lord’s altar’ Augustine

  15. Eucharistic Prayer III ‘Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you: by the same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration’

  16. Eucharistic Prayer The rhythm of the week prompts us to gather up in grateful memory the events of the days which have just passed, to review them in the light of God and to thank him for his countless gifts, glorifying him ‘through Christ, with Christ and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit’. John Paul II - Dies Domini 42

  17. Augustine: Sermon to Neophytes ‘If, therefore, you are the body of Christ and His members, your mystery has been placed on the Lord’s table, you receive your mystery. You reply “Amen” to that which you are.

  18. Augustine: Sermon to Neophytes Be a member of the body of Christ so that your “Amen” may be true.’

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