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10/21/2019 RCIA Session 14: The Mass and the Lords Prayer 1 Session 14: The Mass and the Lords Prayer The Liturgical Year Introduction The Church has a way for the faithful to remember, celebrate, and live today the events of

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Liturgical Year

Introduction

  • The Church has a way for the faithful to remember,

celebrate, and live today the events of Christ’s life

– Every day, every moment sanctified

  • Mass
  • Liturgy of the Hours
  • A special calendar keeps

faith alive and inspires a deeper love for Christ

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The Liturgical Year

Brief History & Explanation of the Liturgical Year

  • Easter: only feast celebrated for first 300 years
  • Christmas: began being celebrated in 335-336
  • Festivals and saints’ days added as time passed
  • First universal Church calendar:

1568

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Papa Pio V by Scipione Pulzone (1544 – 1598)

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The Liturgical Year

A Description of the Liturgical Calendar

  • First cycle: Sundays and Feasts (Temporal)

– Mass, family and the needy, relaxation

  • Second cycle: Feast days of Mary, martyrs,

saints (Sanctoral)

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The Liturgical Year

A Description of the Liturgical Calendar (cont.)

  • Feast day rankings (high -> low)

– Solemnity: great significance, universal importance

  • E.g., Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, Immaculate Conception

– Feast: great importance, but lower rank

  • E.g., Holy Family, Transfiguration, Birth of Mary

– Memorial

  • E.g., Our Lady of Guadalupe,
  • St. Thomas Aquinas

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The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Seasons

  • Advent

– Beginning of liturgical year – Lasts 3-4 weeks – Joyful expectation of Second Coming of the Lord – Penitential – repent and reform in readiness – Color: purple

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Seasons (cont.)

  • Christmas

– Celebrate Jesus’ birth and early childhood – Themes: Joy, peace, Christ as Light of the World, the Incarnation – Color: White

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Seasons (cont.)

  • Lent

– Forty days that precede the Easter Triduum – Time of prep, repentance, new turning to God – Fasting: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday – Abstinence: Ash Wednesday and all Fridays – Color: purple

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Seasons (cont.)

  • Easter

– Relive miraculous events of first Easter – Christ is risen! conquering death – Ascension into Heaven: forty days after Easter – Pentecost (the Spirit coming): fifty days after Easter – Color: white (red for Pentecost)

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Seasons (cont.)

  • Ordinary time

– Remember salvation history and covenants – 34 weeks (between Christmas and Lent and then between Easter and Advent)

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The Liturgical Year

Holy Days of Obligation

  • Faithful obliged (i.e., required) to attend Mass
  • Commemorate mysteries of profound and

universal importance

– Dec 8: Immaculate Conception – Dec 25: Nativity of the Lord – Jan 1: Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God – Ascension Thursday: forty days after Easter – Aug 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Nov 1: All Saints

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History of the Mass

Introduction

  • Mass makes present again the one sacrifice of

Jesus

  • Mass instituted at the Last Supper

– During Passover: liberation from slavery

  • Elements: bread, wine, lamb

– At Last Supper: Body, Blood, Jesus

  • Recall other sacrifices

– Abel, Abraham, Melchizedek

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

History of the Mass

The Mass and the Early Church

  • Acts 20:7: Practice of coming together to break bread
  • n Sunday

– Adapted from liturgy of the synagogue

  • Justin Martyr (c. 150 AD) during time of persecution

– Sunday – Liturgy of the Word – Homily – Presentation of Gifts – Eucharistic Prayer – Consecration – Communion

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History of the Mass

The Mass and the Middle Ages

  • Held in basilicas
  • Mass more elaborate with same structure
  • The ordained began to wear vestments
  • Whole year gradually became patterned by

major events of Jesus’ life

  • Gregory the Great (7th c.): Roman Missal
  • Adaptations as Christianity spread: rites

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History of the Mass

The Mass and the Council of Trent (1545-1563)

  • Made clear what Reformers

were rejecting

  • Restated Church’s official

teaching

  • Mass is a sacrifice
  • Jesus truly present: Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity
  • Tridentine Mass: emphasized tremendous

holiness associated with celebrating Eucharist

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

History of the Mass

The Mass and Vatican II (1962-1965)

  • Concern over lack of participation in the Mass
  • Allow use of vernacular language
  • More abundant use of Sacred Scripture
  • More prayers

in the Roman Missal

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What is a Rite?

  • Words and actions used in liturgical acts
  • Same mystery celebrated in different forms
  • Reflect various traditions and customs
  • Same faith,

same sacraments, same pope

  • Express one faith

through authentic and varied cultures

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The Parts of the Mass

Introduction

  • Last Supper:

Jesus’ institution

  • f the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood

– Perpetuates sacrifice of the cross until Second Coming

  • Jesus’ death and Resurrection remembered

– Saving effects brought into the present – Jesus eaten and we receive His grace

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The Last Supper (1998) by Raoef Mamedov

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Parts of the Mass

Opening Rites

  • Processional: reverence to altar then take seats
  • Greeting: sign of the cross and greeting
  • Penitential Rite: communal confession &

absolution

  • Gloria: praise & thanks to God
  • Collect: expresses main theme
  • f the Mass

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The Parts of the Mass

The Liturgy of the Word

  • Readings: OT, Psalms, (NT,) Gospel
  • Homily: explains readings, encourages reflection

to prep for Communion, life

  • Profession of Faith: summary of Church’s belief
  • Prayers of the Faithful: united with whole

Church in concern for needs of all

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The Parts of the Mass

The Liturgy of the Eucharist

  • Preparation of Gifts: bread & wine presented
  • Eucharistic Prayer: consecration of Eucharist
  • Lord’s Prayer: implore God for forgiveness
  • Sign of Peace: invited to exchange a sign
  • Lamb of God: Body & Blood is the Lamb that

takes away sins

  • Communion: receive Eucharist in hand/tongue

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Parts of the Mass

The Concluding Rite

  • Greeting
  • Blessing
  • Dismissal
  • Process out

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

  • Disciples asked Jesus how they should pray

– Matthew 6:9-15 and Luke 11:2-4

  • Summarizes the whole Gospel message
  • Thru redemption & Baptism we

become adopted children of God

– Thus Jesus is our brother – All Christians are brothers & sisters

  • Thus the Our Father is a prayer for Christian unity

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The Lord’s Prayer

  • To be reconciled with the Father:

– Repent – Be baptized – Love God and neighbor – Believe in Jesus – Keep His commandments

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The Lord’s Prayer

  • Seven petitions

– First three centered on the Father

  • Hallowed be thy name: God is the source of holiness
  • Thy Kingdom come: righteousness, peace, joy, and the

Second Coming

  • Thy will be done: His will over our

will; acceptance of and conformity to His will

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God The Father by Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517)

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The Lord’s Prayer

  • Seven petitions (cont.)

– Last four concerned with our needs

  • Give us our daily bread: materially and spiritually
  • Forgive us as we forgive: love is stronger than sin
  • Lead us not into temptation: give us the grace not to

yield to temptation

  • Deliver us from evil: save us

from sin and Satan

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The Lord’s Prayer

  • Doxology

– “For thine is the kingdom…” – From earliest Christian literature – Said at Mass following a short prayer

  • Amen!

– “So be it!” – Reaffirm what we have prayed

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

Forgiveness

  • Only Our Father petition repeated by Jesus

after teaching the prayer

  • Our forgiveness by God is contingent upon our

forgiveness of others

– “Love your enemies” (Luke 6:27) – Forgive before being asked for forgiveness – Forgive “seventy time seven” times (Mt 18:22)

  • “[W]ith God all things are possible” (Mt 19:26)

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Session 14: The Mass and the Lord’s Prayer

Forgiveness

  • “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his

brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seem, cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20)

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