(FF3) L3: The Scared Liturgy Prt. 2

• The liturgy is an annual cycle of Christ's Mysteries
• Advent

  period of expectant waiting for the coming of the Lord at the end of time
• Advent

  preparation for the commemoration of his first coming to Bethlehem
• Priest wears rose on the third Sunday of Advent
• Christmas

  joyful season celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
• Ordinary Time

  celebrates the life of Jesus Christ in its entirety
• Ordinary Time

  divided into two parts: (1st) after the Christmas season, (2nd) after easter season
• Ordinary Time

  color; green - symbolizing life and hope
• Lent

  begins on ash wednesday and ends with the evening mass of the Lord's supper on the Holy thursday
• Lent

  color; violet - symbolizes penance and mourning
• Lent

  priest wears rose on the fourth Sunday of
• Scared Paschal Triduum

  the summit of the liturgical year - evening of Holy Thursday to the evening of Easter Sunday
• the supper of the lord

  celebrated on Holy Thursday with white vestments
• passion and death of the lord

  celebrated on Good Friday with red vestments, symbolizing martyrdom
• lords resurrection

  celebrated on the nightfall of holy Saturday with the easter vigil
• easter

  50 day celebrating christ's glorious resurrection from the dead
• easter

  begins on easter sunday and ends on Pentecost sunday
• easter

  a large paschal candle is displayed in churches
• easter

  color; white & gold
• man is a corporeal being

  he understands and expresses spiritual realities through physical signs

  and symbols.
• man is a social being

  he communicates with others through words and actions which are all

  symbolical.
• SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM

  the constitution on the Sacred Liturgy by the Second Vatican Council.
• SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM

  was promulgate on December 4, 1963 by Pope Paul VI
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - we should fully, consciously, and actively participate in the liturgical celebrations; exterior and interior
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - we shouldn't be present in the liturgy as strangers/silent spectators. We should take part in the sacred action with devotion
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - SC emphasizes the importance of sacred scriptures in the liturgy
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - sacred scripture is of the greatest importance in the liturgical celebration. it is from the scriptures that actions and signs derive their meaning
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - in sacred celebrations, there is to be more reading from holy scripture
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - The use of latin is to be preserved in the rites. but the use fo the mother tongue in the liturgy may be great advantage to the people, its employment may be extended
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - liturgy must be adapted to the culture and traditions of people
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM) - Ecclesiastical authority must carefully an

  prudently consider which elements from the traditions and culture of individual peoples might appropriately be admitted into divine worship
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM) - participants of the sacred liturgy have to live out the rites tey celebrate
• (MAIN POINTS OF SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM) - the liturgy imparts and ever increasing vigor to the Christian life
• liturgy is primarily the Holy Trinity's work, we just participate in it.
• the liturgy is the exercise of christ's priesthood
• The Liturgy is made the mysteries of Christ's life
• We celebrate the Liturgy through signs and symbols.