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Liturgy
Chapter 9
Jesus’ New Presence & New Actions
• How could Jesus remain with the disciples and
still go to his Father? What did he mean?
• How would you answer them?
• “Whoever listens to you listens to me.” Luke
10:16
• In what sense do we listen to Jesus when we
listen to his disciples?
Liturgy of the Church
• The great mystery: through the Church’s liturgy,
Christ continues the work of our salvation, which
he began during his earthly ministry.
• Gospel – Jesus acted through the physical actions
of his historical body
• Today – Jesus continues to act through liturgical
actions of his Church (mystical body)
• “When the Church baptizes, it is Christ himself
who baptizes.” St. Augustine
Liturgy and Sacraments
• Early Christians compared Baptism to the
sacramentum (ritual by which recruits were
initiated into the Roman army)
• Early Christians used the word sacrament to
describe anything that revealed God’s
presence in the world in a tangible way – a
beautiful sunset, a loving parent.
• Eventually the Church reserved the word
exclusively for the seven sacraments
Sacraments of Initiation:
1. Baptism – Communicants life
2. Confirmation – enriches life
3. Eucharist – nourishes life
Sacraments of Healing:
1. Reconciliation – restores life
2. Anointing – fortifies life
Sacraments of Service:
1. Marriage – Builds up and Spreads
2. Orders – Ministers to pastorally
Sacraments are outward signs of an inward reality – “efficacious
signs of grace.”
Sign:
1. Sensible – perceptible to senses
2. Symbolic – suggestive of nature of the sacrament
• Sacraments were instituted by Christ
• The sacraments were entrusted to the Church
– Jesus gave the keys of the kingdom to Peter
– Jesus commissioned all the Apostles to baptize,
forgive, celebrate and anoint.
• The purpose of the sacraments is to give
divine life to us
• “Christian liturgy not only recalls the events
that save us but actualizes them, makes them
present.” CCC 1104
Liturgical Year
• Begins the First Sunday of Advent – usually
last Sunday of November
• Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus who
came to reconcile the world to the Father
• The actual reconciliation, the most important
event in human history, takes place on Easter:
our passage with Christ from spiritual death to
spiritual life
– Paschal Mystery (paschal = Passover)
Chapter Test
Matching
1–e
2–g
3–i
4 –c
5–a
6–f
7–b
8–h
9–d
True/False
1–T
2–F
3–T
4–F
5–T
True/False
1 a. First Reading
b. Gospel Reading
2 a. Baptism
b. Confirmation
c. Eucharist
3 a. Earthly (or equivalent)
b. Mystical
4 a. Efficacious signs of grace
b. Instituted by Christ
c. Entrusted to the Church
d. To give divine life to us
Baptism
Chapter 10
Call to Life
• Sacraments of Initiation:
– Baptism – Gives life
– Confirmation – Enriches life
– Eucharist – Nourished life
• Got out of order with Pope Pius X in 1910 when he lowered the age of First Eucharist to
the age of reason (age 7, but did not address the Sacrament of Confirmation – which was
typically age 12, before 1st Communion.)
• No Christian churches until after 312AD – when Constantine
defeated Rome and became the Roman Emperor… because of
dream before his winning battle, he made Christianity the official
religion of the empire. (The Catholic Source Book) First churches
were converted Roman temples and other court buildings.
• Where did early church meet?
– Acts 3:1-10, Philemon 1:2, Romans 16:23
Sacraments of Initiation
• Three stages are involved in becoming a
Christian:
– Baptism
– Confirmation
– Eucharist
• The Church doesn’t think of them as separate
ceremonies, but as three stages in one
ceremony.
• Act as image of Trinity – three persons, one
God
Colossians 2:12:
“When you were baptized,
you were buried with Christ,
and in baptism
you were also raised with Christ.”
John 3:3,5:
“No one can see the Kingdom of God
without being born again…
No one can enter the Kingdom of God
without being born of water and the
Spirit.”
Liturgy of Baptism
• Presentation of candidates:
– Involves whole community – because baptism makes
us brothers and sisters – we are all responsible!
• 3 Groups of Church : on earth, in purgatory, in heaven
– Baptism of infants: Acts 16:15, 16:33, 18:8, 1 Cor 1:16
• Profession of faith:
– The “Apostles’ Creed” was used from earliest times as
a “profession of faith”
• Reception of Baptism:
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Baptizing: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Anointing: Prophet, Priest, King
Clothing (white, new garment): Action, Symbolism
Lighting (candle): Action, Symbolism
Stained glass picture on page 133:
Which symbol goes with each meaning:
Graced by the Holy Spirit
Dove
New life and cleansing
Water
Gold streak – Chrism anointing
Oil
Enlightened by Christ
Candle
A story:
A farm boy had a fear of the dark.
One night his father told him
To go out to the barn to feed the horses.
The boy turned pale.
When his father saw this,
He stepped out into the darkness
Lit a lantern, held it up, and said,
“How far can you see?” The boy said,
I can see halfway to the barn.” The
Father said, “Good! Go halfway.”
When the boy reached the halfway point,
The father shouted, “Now how far can you see?” The boy called back,
“I can see the barn.” The father said, “Good! Walk to the barn door,
Open it, and tell me what you see.”
The boy shouted back, “I see the horses.”
The father said, “Good! Now feed them.”
How does this story relate to baptism?
Grace of Baptism
Starting our faith journey and continuing on it are
works of grace.
Sanctifying Grace – Divine life
(CCC 1999) This “grace of Christ” is “God’s own life.
It is” infused by the Holy Spirit to heal our soul
“of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or defying
grace received in Baptism.”
Actual Grace –Divine help
(Hebrews 4:16) “Let us have confidence, then, and
approach God’s throne… There we will… find grace to
help us just when we need it.”
The gift of Baptism:
- puts us right with God
- gives us a share in God’s life
- relates us intimately to the Trinity:
- by virtue of Baptism, we become
- adopted children of God
- members of Christ’s body
- temples of the Holy Spirit
Minister of Baptism
• Ordinarily a bishop, priest or deacon
• In an emergency – anyone can baptize – even an
unbaptized person!
• The minister of baptism must intend to do what the
Church does – pouring water over the person and
reciting:
I baptize you
In the name of the Father,
And of the Son,
And of the Holy Spirit
• Water ritual and Word ritual
Chapter Test
Matching
1 – e: Placed upon the baptized
2 – f: Symbol of death & rebirth
3 – c: Symbol of Christ
4 – d: Famous anthropologist
5 – b: Wrote “Amazing Grace”
6 – a: Oil used in Baptism
True/False
1–T
2–F
3–F
4–T
5–T
6–T
Fill in the Blanks:
1. The three ordinary ministers of Baptism are:
a. Bishop b. priest c. deacon
2. Three minimal requirements needed to baptize in an
emergency:
a. Intention to do what Church does
b. Recite baptismal formula
c. Pour water on person while reciting (b)
3. We define a Sacrament in a four-fold manner .It is:
a. Efficacious sign of grace
b. Instituted by Christ
c. Entrusted to the Church
d. To give divine life to us
4. Baptism relates us to the Trinity in the following
three-fold way. It is:
a. People of God
b. Body of Christ
c. Temple of the Holy Spirit
Confirmation
Chapter 11
One Tooth – a story
• Read on page 140
• Discuss: How does this story relate to the
sacrament of Confirmation?
– One of the purposes of the decent of the Spirit
upon us in Confirmation is to mission and
empower us to spread the Gospel by word and
example. This is what “one Tooth” did so
beautifully.
Coming of the Holy Spirit
• Review the contrast and symbolic link between
Pentecost and Babel pages 92-93
– Babel – sin divides
• All people spoke one language
• Wanted to make a tower to the sky to be as great as God
• God mixed up their languages and scattered then across the earth
– Pentecost – Spirit reunites
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People spoke many languages
Each heard the disciples speaking in his/her language
A sign that what happened t h Tower of Babel in now being reversed.
The Spirit will unite the peoples of the world
Part of God’s plan to re-create the world
Sharing the Spirit
• Read “Share Your Meditation” on page 142
• Discuss questions…
The Sacrament
We receive the same full outpouring of
the holy Spirit that the disciples
received when the Holy Spirit
descended upon them on Pentecost.
(CCC 1302)
Liturgy
• Invitation
– Different liturgy for youth being Confirmed years after Baptism and
Confirmation after Baptism at Easter Vigil
• Laying on of Hands
– Read Bishop’s prayer on pg 143
– Name 7 gifts of the Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude,
knowledge, piety, fear of God
• Anointing with Chrism
– In OT times, three groups of people were anointed:
• Prophets (Elijah)
1 Kings 19:16
• Priests (Aaron)
Exodus 29:7
• King (David)
1 Samuel 16:13
Purpose
Sharing the Mission of Jesus
– Prophet – Teach and witness to Christ
– Priest – Offer ourselves with Christ
– King – Build up Body of Christ
• Ancient soldiers were sealed with a tattoo. It showed
they belonged to a certain king.
• Ancient Christians were “sealed” with the “Gift of the
Holy Spirit” to show they belonged to Jesus.
Grace
• The four graces of Confirmation:
– 1. Perfects what was begun at Baptism
– 2. Deepens our relationship with the Trinity
– 3. Strengthens our bond with the Church
– 4. Missions us to spread the Gospel
Chapter Test
Matching
1 – c: Preached to Samaritans
2 – f: Holy Spirit descends on
disciples
3 – a: Adult Catholics usually enter
Church
4 – d: Imposed hands on Samaritans
5 – e: Similar to ancient Roman
military rite
6 – b: Used in Confirmation to
anoint forehead
True/False
1–F
2–T
3–F
4–F
5–T
6–T
Fill in the Blanks:
1. List & explain the 3-fold missions of Jesus to which the
sacrament of Confirmation calls & empowers us.
a. Prophet
b. Teach and witness to Christ’s Divinity
c. Priest
d. Offer selves with Christ
e. King
f. Build up Body of Christ
2. The fourfold grace of the sacrament of Confirmation
includes the following:
a. Perfects what was begun in Baptism
b. Deepens our relationship with Trinity
c. Strengthens our bond with Church
d. Missions us to spread the Gospel
3. The Liturgy of Confirmation involves the following 3
stages:
a. Invitation
b. Laying on of Hands
c. Anointing with Chrism