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• Liturgy


  Comes from Greek word LAOS which means people and ERGON which means work. LEITOURGIA means public work. Signifies public service in the sense of serving and worshiping God as a people or a community.
• Liturgy


  • More than just rituals, ceremonies or communal services. It is a wellspring of our relationship with God as his people. Central to Christianity. Does not exhaust the entire activity of the church. Summit towards which the activity of the church is directed, and the fountain from which all her power flows.
• Eucharist


  The center of the church's liturgy which commemorates the paschal mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ-his passion, death, resurrection, ascension and sending of the holy spirit.
• Through the paschal mystery, the power of God's salvific love is offered to all. Since this salvation touches of all creation in its entirely, liturgy in its broadest, deepest sense is the proclamation, manifestation, and celebration not only of Christ and His paschal mystery, but also of the church's own mystery and mission as the universal sacrament, salvation, and of the whole world and the temporal order, consecrated and order to its creator and final goal.
• Eucharisteo


  Means thanksgiving.
• Liturgical prayer


  • Directed to the father, through his son Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit. Celebrates the good news of our actual salvation, worked by the blessed trinity through Jesus Christ's paschal mystery. Trinity is far from being an abstract God of the theologians, concrete living, saving God who comes to us in the risen Christ and the spirit within the Christian community, the Church.
• Liturgy


  • The prayer of the church gathered in assembly, an ecclesial activity, celebrated by the whole Christ, head and members. Ecclesial solidarity community that has moved beyond the circle of intimacy toward unity and collaborative activity grounded on Christian discipleship rather than merely social relationships.
• Liturgy


  • Celebrates the church's prayer through a pattern of symbolic, ritual movements, gestures, and verbal formulas that create a framework within which the corporate worship of the church can take place.
• Liturgy


  • Related directly to moral life since it empowers the people of God to full Christian discipleship. Reveals its eschatological characteristics as it makes present Christ's saving paschal mystery whereby he inaugurated God's rule, the kingdom.
• Liturgical Cycle


  • Advent
  • Ordinary Time
  • Lent
  • Easter Time
  • Ordinary Time
• Liturgical seasons in the Church's calendar

  • Advent season
  • Christmas season
  • Ordinary time
  • Lent
  • Paschal Triduum
  • Easter season
• Advent season


  Time of joyful expectation in which we prepare in the spirit of penance both for the celebration of Jesus' birth and for his coming again in glory "to judge the living and the dead"
• Christmas season


  Begins from the vigil of the Lord's birth and ends with the feasts of the baptism of the lord
• Ordinary time


  Period of the 33-34 Sundays referring to the "hidden life of Jesus" the stage in the Lord's life in which the Gospels are silent about him
• Lent


  Penitential season in preparation for the celebration of easter. 40 days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving commemorating for the 40 days spent by jesus in the dessert in preparation for his public ministry
• Paschal Triduum


  Commences with the mass of the Lord's supper on Holy Thursday and ends with the celebration of easter Sunday, During the most sacred time we focus on the Lord's Paschal Mystery
• Easter season


  50 days celebration of the joyful exultation of the Lord's Resurrection from easter Sunday to Pentecost
• Holy days of obligation


  • January 1-Solemnity of Mary as the Mother of God
  • December 8-Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
  • December 25-Solemnity of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
• Altar


  Center of the church where the sacrifice of the Cross is made present under sacramental signs. It is the table of the Lord to which the People of God are invited to share in the banquet of the Lord
• Tabernacle


  Boxlike receptacle where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should facilitate the adoration of the Lord really present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the altar. The sanctuary lamp must be kept burning before the tabernacle
• Chair


  Reserved for the bishop (cathedra) or for the priest to express his office of presiding over the assembly and directing prayer
• Lectern (ambo)


  Suitable place in a church intended for the proclamation of the Word of God
• Baptistry


  The gathering of the People of God begins with baptism, thus a church must have an appropriate place for the celebration of baptism
• Confessional


  The renewal of the baptismal life requires penance. It is an appropriate place to receive the sacrament of reconciliation
• Altar candles


  Mass must be celebrated with natural candles (more than 51% bees wax), which signify the
• Lavabo towel


  Which the priest dries his hands after washing them during the Mass
• Corporal


  Square cloth placed on the altar beneath the chalice and paten. It is folded so as to catch any particles of the Host that may accidentally fall
• Paschal candle


  New one is prepared and blessed every year at the Easter Vigil. This light stands near the altar during the Easter Season and near the
• Blessings, pious actions, words, objects, places, and liturgical seasons

  Help us receive the sacraments with greater fruitfulness and prolong their efficacy, rendering holy various occasions in life
• Alb


  A long white ecclesiastical vestment with long sleeves. Its white color denotes the necessity of innocence and purity, both of soul and body, in him who offers the Lamb of God to the Father
• Cassock


  Close-fitting gown buttoning down the front and reaching to the feet. It is not a vestment, it is simply the ordinary outer garb of a priest
• Chasuble


  Symbolizes the virtue of charity, and the yoke of unselfish service for the Lord. It is the outer vestment put on over the others. The rear portion is often, though not always, ornamental with a large cross
• Stole


  At Mass, and also in nearly every other religious function, the priest wears around his neck a long narrow vestment, the ends hanging down in front. The deacon at Mass wear a similar vestment, but in a different manner, diagonally from his left shoulder to his right side. The stole came into use about the fourth century, and was originally a sort of robe or cloak but its from was gradually modified until it became a narrow strip. Whenever a priest celebrates Mass or administer the Sacraments he wears the Stole as a sign that he is occupied with an official priestly duty
• Cope


  A long enveloping ecclesiastical vestment worn around the shoulder during liturgical rites
• Dalmatic


  An outer sleeved tunic that came to Rome from Dalmatia, whence its name. It is worn in place of the chasuble by the deacon and such deacon during solemn mass. The color of course varies according to the Mass. It symbolizes the joy and happiness that are the fruit of the Holy Spirit
• Chalice


  The vessel which holds the wine that becomes the Precious Blood of Christ
• Ciborium


  A golden vessel with a lid that is used for the distribution and reservation of Hosts
• Purificator


  A small rectangular cloth used for wiping the chalice
• Paten


  The golden "plate" that holds the bread that becomes the Sacred Body of Christ
• Pyx


  A small, closing golden vessel that is used to bring the Blessed Sacrament to those who cannot come to the church