Liturgical Worship

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Liturgical Worship
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Liturgy

• What is Liturgy?
• Why is Liturgy celebrated?
• Who celebrates the Liturgy?

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Liturgy

• Liturgy (leitourgia) is a Greek composite word
  meaning originally a public duty, a service to
  the state undertaken by a citizen.
• Its elements are leitos (from leos laos,
  people) meaning public, and ergo meaning to do.
• From this we have leitourgos, "a man who performs
  a public duty", "a public servant.

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• The word "liturgy" originally meant a "public
  work" or a "service in the name of/on behalf of
  the people."

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Christian Tradition

• Liturgy is the official public prayer and worship
  of the Church.
• In the tradition of the Church, liturgy means the
  participation of the People of God in the 'work
  of God'.
• Liturgy is thus distinguished from private
  devotion.

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• Liturgy is primarily the worship of God.
• Liturgy is divine worship, not only as individual
  persons, but as a community.
• We worship God, and He, in turn, sanctifies us.
• In fact, we may say that worshiping God is
  already a form of sanctity.
• Why? Because in worshiping God, we
• are conversing with Him,
• are in contact with Him, as only spirit can touch
  the Spirit who is the Author of our being and the
  Goal of all our desires

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The work of God

• Liturgy means the participation of the People of
  God in the 'work of God'.
• What is this Work of God?
• The work, or ergia, to which the liturgy refers
  and in which the Church participates is the work
  of Christ in the paschal mystery.

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Paschal Mystery

• The paschal mystery of Christhis suffering,
  death, resurrection, and ascensionis the work by
  which Jesus glorified his Father and brought
  salvation to the world.
• It is this same work that Jesus has left a
  memorial of in the Eucharist and which the Church
  celebrates in the liturgy Christ continues his
  priestly work through the agency of the Church
  from apostolic times the Church has never failed
  to come together to celebrate the paschal
  mystery.

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Paschal Mystery

• The liturgy, in summary, is a celebration of the
  work of Jesus paschal mysteryfrom his death on
  the cross to his ascension into heavenwhereby
  God the Father is perfectly glorified and mankind
  and all of creation are sanctified.
• The liturgy does not celebrate us, our community,
  our good deeds, our good music, or special
  occasions in our lives.
• Only if these are directed toward and share in
  Christs paschal mystery are they a worthy part
  of the liturgical celebration.

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Participation of the people in this work?

• This work is God drawing us to Himself through
  a call that He initiates.
• Our work is to freely respond to His call.
• Jesus initiates this work of salvation in the
  liturgy through which He calls us, saves us,
  blesses us, sanctifies us and glorifies us.
• Before He ascended into Heaven, Jesus gave us the
  priesthood.
• The priest is the mediator between Christ and us
  in this work of salvation as the priest stands in
  persona Christi (in the Person of Christ) to
  continue the work of Christ and His Church.
• The work of the people is to respond to God's
  blessing through our thankfulness, praise,
  worship, adoration, offering, interceding for
  others and glorifying Him.

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The Father
calls
Jesus
responds
Man
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Through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is Yours
almighty Father, forever and ever. AMEN.

• We join with Jesus in offering our personal
  sacrifices to the Father. Our Heavenly Father, in
  turn, welcomes us to the Sacred Banquet to
  receive the Body of Christ, to be in the most
  intimate communion with our Divine Lord.
• We can see that the work of God involves His
  initial call to bless and purify us and always
  draw us closer to Himself. Our work is the
  response that we freely give.
• Therefore the goal of liturgy is communion with
  Jesus.

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To lead us to this UNITY --

• The liturgy has required elements
• proclamation of Scripture (CCC 1154)
• it is communal as the people of God gather
  together with the clergy (CCC 1140, 1142)
• God meets with His children and there is a
  dialogue, through gestures and words in which the
  faithful are called to respond (CCC 1153)
• the presence of signs and symbols, which effect
  what they signify. (C 1127, 1145-1152).

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Who celebrates Liturgy?

• If we recall that the sacred liturgy, and
  particularly the Mass, celebrates the saving work
  of Jesus paschal mysteryhis suffering, death,
  resurrection, and ascensionthen the first answer
  to our question is Jesus Christ.
• In other words, because the Mass presents the
  saving work of Christ, the principal celebrant of
  the Mass is Christ himself.
• And with Jesusalways and foreverare God the
  Father, who is the source and goal of the
  liturgy, and
• God the Holy Spirit, who shares in Christs
  saving mission

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• Jesus also associates the Church with his saving
  work.
• Liturgy is an "action" of the whole Christ
  (Christus totus).
• It is the whole community, the Body of Christ
  united with its Head, that celebrates.
• The Liturgy, especially the Mass, wherever it is
  celebrated, is the common possession of all the
  baptized, living and dead, even though it takes
  place at a particular time and place.
• The celebrants of the heavenly liturgy.
• The celebrants of the sacramental liturgy.
• Each of us is called upon to worship for the good
  of the entire Church and not simply for our own
  good or our familys or parishs good.
• The Liturgy should be celebrated with the
  faithful present and actively participating.

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Signs and Symbols

• Incarnational Principle
• The celebration uses signs and symbols whose
  meaning comes from creation, human culture, the
  events in the Old Testament and the revelation
  given in the life of Christ.

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Examples

• Sign of the Cross
• Genuflection
• Kneeling
• Standing
• Sitting Down
• Candles
• Altar
• Chairs

• Vestments
• Water
• Incense

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Remember

• Liturgy is the official public worship of the
  Church.
• In every Liturgy, we celebrate Christs Paschal
  Mystery suffering, death, resurrection and
  ascension of Jesus.
• The whole Church celebrates the Liturgy heavenly
  liturgy and the sacramental liturgy.
• We celebrate through signs and symbols, words and
  gestures.

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Say Mabetbet ya Tepet

• nanlapuan na saray CapitUlo tan Bersikulo na
  Biblia??

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• STEPHEN LANGTON in 1220 invented a division of
  the Bible into CHAPTERS.
• 1528, an Italian Dominican SANTOS PAGNINO
  subdivided the Bible into sentences or the
  present verses.
• ROBERTO STEFANO, a Protestant publisher,
  completed the task in 1558.

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Details

• 1,328 chapters
• 40,030 verses
• 773,692 words in the original language
• 3,566,480 letters