POINTS FOR REVIEW

 Authentic Christian prayer, then, is always Trinitarian, since it is through Christ that “we have
access in one Spirit to the Father” (Eph 2:18).
 The basic types of prayer __ Adoration, Contrition, Thanksgiving, Supplication, and Offering.
 Christian prayer is directly addressed to God, our Creator and Lord, while involving an intrinsic
relation to one’s neighbor. Vertical and horizontal dimension.
 What did Jesus teach about prayer?
 Jesus taught his disciples how to pray by his own example of communion with his Father. In his
teaching he stressed:
• interior sincerity of the heart,
• love in action, even of one’s enemies, and
• the importance of the Holy Spirit as Guide and Inspirer.
 Levels of Prayer
1487. In their process of growing up, Catholics are taught to pray on two basic levels, that is, in
private, personal prayer (the rosary, novenas, devotions to patron saints, meditations, etc.) and
public, communal liturgical prayer.
 Actually the personal and communal prayer levels are complementary;
both are necessary for an authentic Christian prayer life. We stand before God both as a unique
person created in His image and likeness, redeemed and adopted as son/daughter in the Lord,
and as a member of Christ’s Body, the Church.
 Worship is an appropriate reaction of people to God’s action
 Worship is interior reverence and homage offered to the Divine Majesty through words and
actions in public ritual.
 Authentic religious rituals show four constant traits:
-symbolic,
-consecratory,
-repetitive and
-Involving
-Remembrance.
 Authentic worship “in Spirit and truth” is never empty ritualism, but includes rendering justice
to the poor, the widow and the orphan. It takes place in the individual Christian’s personal
prayer, in group prayer, and especially in the Church’s liturgical prayer.
 For the Christian community, praying in common is non-negotiable and those who do not pray
in common with the rest of the body of the Church cannot rightly call themselves Christian.
-COMMON WORSHIP P. 12
 But Yahweh had to give a second lesson on worship through His prophets who denounced
empty ritualism by stressing that true worship consists not in words on the lips but in deeds
from the heart. Authentic worship means doing good and rendering justice to the poor, the
widow and orphan
(cf. Is 1:11-17; 58:1-10; Amos 5:21-24).
 PCP II explains how worship can be expressed on different levels.
First is the individual Christian’s personal prayer and devotion; this develops into group prayer,
such as Block Rosaries, charismatic meetings, etc.
 Finally there is the official worship of the Church in the sacred liturgy, which is the source and
summit of our total life of prayer. In the liturgy, Christian worship takes on its special communal
and ceremonial/ritual qualities.
 The “Our Father” is in keeping with the Catholic tradition. For the prayer our Lord taught his
disciples has always been revered as a “summary of the whole Gospel,” the perfect and
fundamental Christian prayer (cf. CCC 2759-61).
 FORGIVENESS should be universal and continual.
 LITURGY :The public worship carried out by the people of God, the mystical Body of Christ the
Church. The official worship of the church
- A prayer in action
 The Liturgy is the public worship that our Redeemer as Head of the church renders to the father
as well as the worship that the community of the faithful renders to its founders, and through
him to the father. It is in short, the worship rendered by the mystical body of Christ in the
entirely of its head and members.
 Elements of the Liturgy
-Words, sacraments, actions and gestures
 Advent- is the feast that gives rise to humanitarian thought, and feelings of joy and peace.
 LENT is a time of penance and renewal for the entire Church.
It is not enough for us to make commitment to it individually. We must be one with the entire
Mystical Body of Christ.
  Ordinary Time, thus is a period of growth in Faith for all who follow the Liturgy.
 LITURGICAL COLORS
-colors have a symbolic meaning in Liturgy
-they suggest the Mystery or feast or signify the sentiment of the special occasion for which the
Mass is celebrated.
 WHITE. Purity and integrity of life.
Christmas and Easter Season, feasts of the Lord except His Passion, celebrations of Mary, the
Angels, the Saints who were not Martyrs, All Saints, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Chair
of Peter and Conversion of Paul.
 GREEN.
Hope and the vitality of the life of faith.
Ordinary Time
 GOLD.
Highest celebration or great solemnity.
Special Occasion [Christ the King]
Votive Masses- color of the day or season.
Various Occasion-color of the day or Season.
SEASON BEGINS ENDS COLOR CHARACTER
Advent Sunday After Eve of Violet Waiting
Christ the December 24
King
Christmas Eve of Feast of White Joy
December 24 Baptism of
Jesus
Ordinary Time Monday right Tuesday Green Vitality of
[Short] after the Feast before Ash Life/ Hope
of Baptism of Wednesday
Jesus
Lent Ash Holy Week Violet Penance
Wednesday
Easter Easter Vigil Pentecost White Joy
Ordinary Time Monday after Christ the Green Vitality of
[Long] Pentecost King Life/ Hope
 SEASON BEGINS ENDS COLOR CHARACTER

Advent Sunday After Christ Eve of Violet Waiting

the King December 24

Christmas Eve of December 24 Feast of Baptism White Joy

of Jesus

Ordinary Monday right after Tuesday before Green Vitality of Life/

Time [Short] the Feast of Baptism Ash Wednesday Hope
of Jesus
Lent Ash Wednesday Holy Week Violet Penance

Easter Easter Vigil Pentecost White Joy

Ordinary Monday after Christ the King Green Vitality of Life/

Time Pentecost Hope
[Long]