LITURGICAL SEASON 

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ADVENT   {Purple} (Before Christas)
•  Adventus [Latin], Coming of Christ
•  Preparation of coming of Christ
- Dual Coming -
1. Birth    2. Parousia [Judgement Day]   (3. day to day, People we encounter)
• Near to November 30 (St. Andrews Day)
• 4 Advent Sundays (Dec 24 End)

CHRISTMAS {White}
• Eve of Dec 25 (Short ordinary time)

after is EPIPHANY
• Jan 06, The 3 Kings
• Baptism of Christ

after Jan 6 is SHORT ORDINARY TIME {Green}

   
LENT {Purple}                     Abstinence (Ash Wed, Good Friday, All Fridays of Lent) [No Pork/Meat]
• start ash Wednesday   Fasting
• 46 days (Mon-Sat)

BLACK SATURDAY
EASTER {White}
• Celebrate Resurrection
• Palm Sunday {Red}
• Easter Sunday

after 50 days PENTECOST {Red}

• Sunday
• Decent of Holy Spirit in Church

after Easter  LONG ORDINARY TIME

• 33 weeks
• End of Solemnity of Christ

ADVENT WREATH
• Circular shape
• There's No Beginning and Ending
• Unending Love of Christ

ADVENT CANDLES
1st Advent Sunday_ Hope (Prophecy) Purple
2nd Advent Sunday_ Love (Betlehem) Purple
3rd Advent Sunday_ Joy (Shepherd) Pink
4th Advent Sunday_ Peace (Angels) Purple
White Candle- Christ Candle
-Purity                -Sinless Man

MESSIAH                                                                   JESUS - Yehoshua (hebrew)

-  Mesiha (Aramaic)                                              - Yaweh is salvation / God Saves
- Masiah (Hebrew)        ANIONTED
- Christos (Greek)

LENT
• A time to contemplate on Paschal Mystery
• An invitation to Renew our Baptismal call
• Passion, Death, & Resurrection
• 40 days penitential season of preparation for Easter
- Fasting season
- Jesus spend 40 days and 40 nights fasting and enduring temptation
- 40 years Israelites wondered in the desserts
• Sunday Jesus Resurrected

ASH WEDNESDAY
• It marks the beginning of the season Lent
• The ashes are the burnt palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year
• These are considered sacramental are blessed before their use.
• Ashes are symbols of "Repentance and Conversion"

"Remember you are the dust and dust you will return."
"Turn away from sin and live the gospel."

PREPARE FOR LENT

• Repentance - letting go of sinful behavior
• Reconciliation - seeking conversion
• Penance - making up for what we do wrong
• Discipleship - Following the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ

3 PILLARS OF LENT
Praying
• action that  leads people to God
• Pray when you wake up or going to sleep
Fasting
•  Restriction of consumption, a Deprivation of evil and privation of Good, For the Glory of God
• Abstinence is a practiced on ash Wednesday,  all Friday of lent, and good Friday (No Meat)
• Reduce expense
• Avoid cursing, unnecessary speech
• Avoid sin, especially those of the flesh; sloth, gluttony and Lust
Reason of Fasting
1. To grow in self-mastery (Say no)
2. Obedience and discernment (open us up and allows us to be closer to God)
3. Worship and sacrifice
4. To be co-redeemers with Jesus
Almsgiving
• Action that lead us, Christians to see our fellowman, love them
• Dedicate time to your family
• Leaving what I am doing to help
• Be generous with our virtues, charity, forgiveness, patience
• Donate something you like
• Do readings in my parish or collect offerings

ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY [ LK 1:26-38]

2 Important  Character
Angel Gabriel- Announced the birth
Mary- Mother of God

3 Archangels
Angel Gabriel- Closest Spirit to God, Messenger
Angel Raphael- Healer
Angel Michael- Defender of who Loves God, Protector

5 ELEMENTS PATTERN IN BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

1. Appearance of the angel [v28]
2. Fear on the part of the person Jesus confronted by [v29]
3. Heavenly Message [v30-31]
4. Questions of the person confronted [v34]
5. Giving Some Assurance [v35-37]

BETROTHED - to be married (engaged)

- every right of marriage such as conjugal rights
- woman stays at her parent

KETUBBAH - Agreement
- gives sum of money to the bride if he will divorce her (Became Unfaihful)
- if the bride committed adultery the agreement will end
Mary was probably 12-13 yrs. old when angel Gab appeared to her
                                -betrothal age for young women

"Greetings, You who are highly favored!! The Lord is with You." [LK 1:28]
"Behold you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus" [LK 1:31]
"How will this be," Mary asked the angel "Since I am a Virgin" [LK 1:34]
"The Holy Spirit come upon you and the Power of thee most High will overshadow you" [LK 1:35]
"For nothing will be impossible with God" [LK 1:37]
"Behold I’m the Handmaid of the Lord, Mary Your word to me be Fulfilled" [LK 1:38]

Fiat of Mary - It expresses Mary's Obedient Discipleship (Total Faith)

THEO TOKOS - God Bearer

- God - A creature who gives birth

Spiritual Mother [Mother of God]

- Woman Of Church
- The woman of Faith
- Her Total YES to the Lord

MARY - Miriam (Hebrew)

          - Mariam (Aramaic)
          - Maria (Greek/Latin)

Parents Of Mary- Anne & Joachim

Immaculate Conception- Dec 08
- She was conceived without original sin by her mother Anne. She Was preserved from any stains of original sin.

Mary - Filled with Grace

- God's loving gift of Himself through the Spirit that Justifies and sanctifies us.

Joseph- He Gave Davidic paternity to Mary’s child (MT. 1:18-21)

The Angelus- Helps us to recall the Annunciation of Mary

GOSPEL         - Eu angelion (Greek)

-Good Spell   -Good -Message
Good Tidings - Evangelium (Latin)
                        - Goods News
THE GOSPELS
• Speak of the good news from the angelic message of Bethlehem to Final commissioning of the Apostles
• Four authentic accounts of the Life, Death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ
• A literature though not biographical rather a Faith narrative of Jesus is.
• One Gospel in four gospels
                                         - Knowing the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ

FORMATION OF GOSPELS
1. The Original words and deed of Jesus
2. The Oral proclamation of the apostles and disciples
3. The Actual writing of the Gospel.

4 Criteria for Canonicity

APOSTOLIC ORIGIN - attributed to and/or based on the preaching/teaching of the first-generation apostles
UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE - Acknowledge by all major Christian communities in the Mediterranean
LITURGICAL USE - read publicly along with the OT when early Christians gathered for Lords supper
CONSISTENT MESSAGE - Containing Theological ideas compatible with other accepted Christian writings.

Four-Fold Role of the Evangelist as Authors

SELECTORS- From among the many things Jesus said and did, they close which stories they wanted to include and which to omit.
ARRANGERS - They organized the materials in a particular sequence.
SHAPERS - they adopted and edited the individual stories from their sources.
PROCLAIMERS - They were not objective historians but preached the "good news" about Jesus in ways appropriate.
SYNOPTIC GOSPEL - Seen with the same eye literary independency (same content)
[St. Mark, St. Matthew, St. Luke]

The Four-source theory/ The Two-Document Hypothesis

MARK Q-SOURCE

Quelle (German)- Source hypothetical writer source about Christ

MATTHEW LUKE

THE SYMBOLS OF FOUR EVANGELISTS

MATTHEW JOHN

- Man/Angel - Eagle
- Family Tree, Humanity of - keenness of Vision
Jesus Christ

LUKE MARK

- Bull/Calf - Lion
- Use to sacrifice - Courage & Pride
- Sacrificial Lamb

AUTHORSHIPS

MARK – Son of Mary of Jerusalem

- A.K.A John Mark

- Cousin of Barnabas
- Shortest Gospel [16 Chap]
- The oldest Gospel
- Baptism of Christ

TO WHOM: Mostly Gentiles (for the persecuted non-Jewish, Christian at Rome)

WHEN: 60-70 A.D.
WHY: To console & strengthen them
FOCUS: Deeds of Christ
CHRISTOLOGY: Jesus Christ, Tireless servant of God and Man.

MATTHEW - One of the 12 apostles

- Tax Collector
- Longest Gospel [28 chap]
- Abraham Down to Jesus

TO WHOM: Educated Jews

WHEN: Late 70’s or 80’s A.D.
WHY: To teach a community with Internal and External enemies
FOCUS: words of Jesus
CHRISTOLOGY: Jesus the “Emmanuel” the expected Messiah

LUKE – Physician

- Friend/Companion of Paul, Our Patron

- The author of Acts of Apostles [24 Chap]
- Happening Around/ BIRTH OF CHRIST
TO WHOM: Wealthier Gentile Christians
WHEN: Mid to late 80’s A.D.
WHY: To challenge them to put their Faith into practice more fully..
FOCUS: Universality of Salvation
CHRISTOLOGY: Jesus, the savior of all Humanity

JOHN – One of the 12 Apostles

- A.K.A John the beloved, The Beloved Apostles of Jesus, who clings to the breast of Jesus During the last supper
- Fisherman; Son off Zebedee
- Brother of James the great [21chap]
- Humanity in the beginning/ STARTED IN THE BEGINNING

TO WHOM: Jews, Gentiles, pagans, Christians

WHEN: Main edition 90’s
WHY: to strengthen a group ostracized by other Jews for their Faith
FOCUS: teaching of Jesus
CHRISTOLOGY: Jesus, The word of God

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

CAESER AUGUSTUS – issued a decree that a cencus should be taken of the entire roman world.

A survey conducted objects belonging to a given population

QUIRINIUS (Governor of Syria)

- The first cencus who took place

Joseph and Mary went up from Galilee from Nazareth to Judea Herod the great (King of Judea)

Born in STABLE – wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in manger.

- Jesus birth was for a poor man, a simple and humble event

The birth of the savior had been announced to the SHEPHERDS.

-Person who tends and rears sheeps

-They are used to represent to leaders of God’s people

-1st witnesses of Jesus Christ birth

-Shepherds have a simple life, a life lived worshipping God

For the poor like the shepherd, this was truly Goods News [Lk 2:14]

Shepherds: were able to verify

- The savior’s Lordship

- The humble circumstances surrounding His birth

The Visit if the Magi [Mt. 2:1-12]

-Astrologers

-Having More than human knowledge

-The Wise Men (Melchor, Gaspar, Balatzar)

-Gold [Christ Kingship], Frankincense [His Priesthood (Priestly Mission)], Myrrh [Prophetic Mission]

Herod kills the infants [Mt. 2:16-18]

The flight into Egypt [The traditional place to Refuge]

The Holy family went back to Nazareth where Jesus Grew Up.

Gaudium Et Spes, 22 (Joy & Hope)

Two-Fold light of Jesus

- A light to reveal who God is

- A light to reveal who the human person is

RITES OF CHILDHOOD

CIRCUMSISSION & NAMING

- 8TH day, boy name Jesus is a seal of the covenant to mark out Abraham’ descendants as God’s special people

PURIFICATION

- According to Mosiac Law the woman who gives birth to ah boy is unable for 40 days to touch anything sacred or to enter
the temple area by reason of her legal impurity.

PRESENTATION

- A year-old lamb is offered as a burn’t offering for the atonement of sin.

2 Pigeon/ Turtledoves (Substitute) [The offering of the poor]

“It shows the savior