RE beliefs and practices

• popular piety: common ways catholics worship non liturgically
• popular piety sowa "spiritual life is not confined to the liturgy
• how does the rossary aid in worship

  -count their prayers (10 our father 10 hail mary 1 glory be)

  -honour jesus

  -physical focal point
• what are the stations of the cross

  1.wodden cross

  2.reflection of christ suffering

  3.next station
• why are the stations of the cross useful

  -imitate Jerusalem for people who cant go

  -provides focus during holy week
• what is the purpose of pilgrimage

  -visit origins of christianity

  -time to pray and ask forgiveness
• what is the protestant view on pilgrimages

  don't view them as important
• why are pilgrimages important

  -time and space for prayer

  -journey closer to god

  -connect with other Christians

  -break from busy lives
• pilgrimages sowa: "pilgrimages evoke our earthy journey towards heaven" -ccc
• spiritual pilgrimage

  -history + growth of christianity

  -iona monastary
• pilgrimages for mary

  -lourdes

  -marian apparitions
• pilgrimages for jesus

  -holy land

  -birth, ministry, crucifixion, resurrection of jesus
• pilgrimages for apostles

  -vatican city
• ecumenical pilgrimages

  -walsingham house

  -prayer and communion with other christains
• sacraments sowa: "an ourtward sign of an inward gift"
• quakers- scaraments

  take none, prayer is enough
• protestants-sacraments

  baptism, eucharist, only ones jesus did
• confirmation:

  -confirms baptism

  -transition from child to adult

  -chrismoil poured on head
• eucharist:

  -consume body and blood of christ

  -bread and wine transubstantiated
• baptism:

  -shows chosen by god

  -riding of original sin

  -water cleanses you
• marriage:

  -continuing to build catholic church

  -covenant between god and partners
• holy orders:

  -annointed with oil

  -chosen by god

  -becoming a priest
• vocation: serving god/others (marriage holy orders)
• initiation: introducing faith journey (baptism, confirmation, eucharist)
• healing: recovering something broken (reconciliation anointing of the sick)
• reconciliation:

  -salvation

  -confessing sins before death

  -recieve absolution
• sacrament of the sick:

  -healing physical sickness

  -anointed with oil

  -offers healing grace
• parts of eucharist: offertory, consecration, transubstantiation
• quakers-mass

  -no structure

  -speak when fee the holy spirit

  -sat in circle
• the eucharist sowa: "the source and summit of Christian life"
• mass-pentacostaists

  -worship non liturgically

  -use music choirs instruments
• protestants do not believe in transubstantiation
• funeral rite is a form of liturgical worship which honours the persons life and prepares them for heaven
• the funeral rite is important because:

  • allows grieving time
  • shows death is not the end
  • sanctifies the soul ready for heaven
  • allows time to pray
  • reminder they are the body of chirst
• parts of the funeral rite: commendation, vigil of deceased, funeral liturgy
• commendation: body is buried in a cemetery, water is sprinkled on the coffin, time for prayer
• vigil of deceased: happens in church, time for prayer, allows people to have peace of mind
• funeral liturgy: mass where priest reassures death is not the end
• funeral rite sowa: "in death life is changed not ended"
• prayer is communicating with god. it is a form of worship