(FF3) L3: The Sacred Liturgy

• The official public worship of the church

  Liturgy
• the origin and end of the Liturgy

  The Father
• the priest acts in persona Christi capitis - in the person of Christ the head,

  whenever he presides over liturgical celebrations
• Epiclesis ("invocation over") - the intercession by which the priest asks god

  the Father to send the Holy Spirit so that he may transform the offerings into

  the body and blood of Christ.
• the lord’s paschal mystery, i.e., his passion, death, and resurrection, is made

  present in the liturgy
• Anamnesis - the making present of the mysteries of Christ''s life