Transcript Understanding the Church - St Ann Catholic Church

Understanding the Church
Who’s RIGHT?
Whose RITE?
The Direction of Intention Prayer
My God, give me the grace to perform
this action with you
and through love for you.
In advance, I offer to you all the good that
I will do and accept
all the difficulty I may meet therein.
St. Ann, Pray for us.
St. Francis de Sales, Pray for us
What’s the Difference?
 CHURCH: is an assembly of the faithful, hierarchically ordered,
both in the entire world – the Latin Church – The Orthodox
Church, or in a certain territory – a particular Church – Church of
Venice.
 RITE: A particular body or group within a CHURCH that has
its own unique set of procedures, laws, liturgical practices, that
although distinctly unique, still hold to the doctrinal precepts of
the Church. The Coptic Rite is part of the Latin Church
 The Latin Church is comprised of 5 Major RITES
 Roman, Alexandrian, Antiochean, Byzantine and Chaldean
 And 22 Sister Rites
 EX. Ruthenian Catholics, Coptic Catholics, Malabar Catholics
What’s the Difference between a RITE
and a DENOMINATION?
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RITES are Churches that are in communion with the
Roman Catholic Church. To be in communion with the
Roman Catholic Church one must accept Roman
Catholic doctrine.
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DENOMINATIONS
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Term used for Protestant Churches
united under a common faith and name and organized under a
single administrative and legal hierarchy.
Denominations are not in Communion with the Catholic
Church
Why so many RITES?
The Apostolic Churches
 Jerusalem: St. James
 Antioch: St. Peter
 Rome: St. Peter
 Alexandria: St. Mark – Disciple of St. Peter
 Constantinople: St. Andrew
 Other Churches linked to Apostolic Churches
 John – Greece – Patmos
 Philip – Turkey
 St. Bartholomew and St. Jude – Armenia, northern Iraq, Persia
 Thomas, southern India
 Matthew – Ethiopia
A Church Divided
The East-West
Schism
of 1054
The First
Split
West v. East
 The Church split along
doctrinal, linguistic
political and geographic
lines
 Result: The Christian
Church divides into the
Western (Roman Catholic
or Latin) Church and the
Eastern (Orthodox)
Church.
West v. East
 Western Church
 Petrine Authority supremacy of Bishop of
Rome
 The Creed
 Filioque – The Holy
Spirit proceeds from the
Father and the Son
 Mary – conceived without
sin
 Doctrinal Development
 Clerical Celibacy
Doctrinal Differences
 Orthodox Church
 All Patriarchs hold equal
authority
 The Creed
 The Holy Spirit
proceeds from the
Father
 Mary – Capable of sin but
did not
 Immutable Doctrine
 Clerical Celibacy
The Latin Church – Roman Catholic Church
 Comprises about 87%
of all Catholics –
Christians in the World
 Headquarters: Rome
 Leader: Pope
 Language: Latin (national
languages used in
Liturgies)
 Bishops appointed by
Pope
 Other Associated Rites:
 Ambrosian – Milan,
Italy
 Mozarabic – Christians
of Islamic descent
 Variety of Eastern Rites
The Orthodox Church
The term “Orthodox” translates from the
Greek to mean “correctly believing”
 Comprises about 15%
Christians in the World
 Headquarters: Varies
Istanbul, Moscow
 Leader(s): Patriarch
 Language: Greek
(national languages used
in Liturgies)
 Bishops elected by peers
or by patriarch
 Other Associated Rites:
 Greek Orthodox
 Russian orthodox
 Variety of smaller Rites
Practical Questions
 Baptism
 Both Churches recognize the sacramental validity of triune baptism formula
 I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
 Communion
 While both churches recognize the sacramental validity of the Eucharist –
Real Presence – True Communion does not exist
 Catholics could receive Communion in an Orthodox Church
 Orthodox Christians can not receive communion in a Catholic Church
 Orthodox Church objects to Roman Catholic receiving Communion in Orthodox
church
 Marriage
 Recognize the sacramental validity of Marriage
 Ordination
 Recognize the sacramental validity of each others ordinations
The Protestant
Reformation
1517
The Second Split
Before the Reformation
The Avignon Papacy – 1309
– 1377
Pope leave Rome – move
to Avignon, France
The Great Western Schism
– 1378 – 1415
Were there really three Popes at
once?
A Political Mess: Europe
Divided
Church weakened
Papal Palace, Avignon,
France
Before The Reformation
 Social and Political
Factors
 Weaknesses in Catholic
Church
 Proliferation of
Questionable Religious
Rituals and Practices
 Corruption and Abuses
of Power in Church
Martin Luther
 Ninety-Five Theses
 contained an attack on
papal abuses and the sale of
indulgences by church
officials.
 Saw the Reformation as
something far more
important than a revolt
against the Church
 He believed it was a fight
for the gospel
The Rest of the Reformation
 Other Reform Movements
 John Calvin, Henry VIII, John
Knox
 Once church authority is
abandoned Reformation
splinters into many branches
 DENOMINATIONS
Western
Europe
following
the
Protestant
Reformation
The Protestant Denominations
 Conservative or
Main Line
 Baptist
 Evangelicals
 Lutheran
 Reformed-
Presbyterian
 Episcopalian
 Methodists
 Presbyterians
 Amish
• Liberal
• Same as first
groups but
with less
structure and
set styles of
worship
• Cults
• Mormons. The
Church of
Jesus Christ of
the of Latterday Saints
• Jehovah's
Witnesses
• Unitarianism..
. Universalism.
• Church of
Scientology
The Newest Catholic Rite
Roman Catholics in the United
States
• There are 70,259,769 Catholics in the
United States (24.3% of the U.S. pop.),
• 1,121,315,000 Catholics worldwide.
• New Church Members
• Infant Baptisms: 985,141
•Adult Baptisms: 76,829
•Received into Full Communion: 75,429