REL ED REVIEWER Authentic prayer – Rooted from the heart, loving

compassion and service to others

Red martyrdom – martirs/sinners but died during
doing Good Divine Office – the liturgy of the hour
Venial sin – small sins Level of Christian Prayer
Sensitive souls – animals 1. Personal or Privale prayer
Nutritive soul – plants Example: the holy rosary
Moral soul - Humans 2. Communal or Public
Example: Holy Mass
Christ The highest point of personal prayer is AMEN
-Proportional Sacrament of the father
Lietorgigal Authentic Worship
- Public worship/ duty -doing and rendering justice to the poor,
the widow and orphan
Example: Holy Mass
TO SING IS TO PRAY TWICE
Part of mass: Liturgy of the word and
liturgy of the eucharist (Saint Agustine)
Sacramentals 1. Internal attitude – reverence and
humage for divine mystery
-object uses in holy mass
2. Outward Expression – sign of words,
7 Sacraments – our rites action, dance and sing

1. Baptism
- We become members of the church
- Sanctifying grace
Original sin – parents
Originated sin – adam and eve
2. Confirmation
-to strengthen our faith, confirm as
catholic
3. Holy Eucharist
-our spiritual nourishment
4. Penance and Reconciliation
5. Marriage Patrimony
-bond of man and women
6. Anointing of the sick
7. Holy orders
- For consecrated
Prayer - An intimate relationship with God
Genuflection or genuflexion - the act of bending
a knee to the ground, as distinguished from
kneeling which more strictly involves both knees.
Holy Mass - The highest form of prayer
Proto Evangelium – The first Good news
Ritual
- A religious or solemn ceremony
consisting of a series of actions
performed according to a prescriber
order.
- Refers to the particular community
- It has broadest meaning
- May include secular (kinalakihan)
and religious (fasting) ceremonies
- It is the way we have of creating our
fundamental bonding with others and
the structure of social relationships
which gave us our basic identity.
Authentic religious rituals develop personal
relationship with God through actions
characterized by:
 Symbolic (makahulugan)
 Consecratory (para sa kabanalan)
 Repetitive (Paulit-ulit)
 Remembrance (ala-ala)
Symbolic (makahulugan)
- Rituals are symbolic, using natural
signs to make present the divine

FULL OF GRACE IS FULL OF GOD Consecratory (para sa kabanalan)

-they involve a certain consecration which
enables the participants in the divine power/love
Repetitive (Paulit-ulit) The liturgical year begins on the:
- They are to be repeated, using I. First Sunday of Advent
traditional prayers and actions that II. Ordinary time
link the celebrants with their past III. Lent
IV. Triduum of Three Days
Remembrance (ala-ala)
V. Easter
-the original religious event that ritual is VI. Pentecost
celebrating VII. Ordinary time
VIII. Feast of Christ the King
Liturgy
Liturgical year – focusing on Sunday, on Paschal
-“People’s work and public duty” mystery, on Christ
-Present full active and conscious (life, death, resurrection)
participation
-everything that all Christian.
Liturgical calendar cycle
Vatican II – Describes the liturgy as: “an exercise
of the priestly office of Jesus Christ”. Cycle A- features the Gospel of Matthew for the
whole year
Eucharist – the center of Church Liturgy
Cycle B - features the Gospel of Mark for the
 We commemorates the Paschal Mystery whole year
of Our Lor Jesus Christ
 Paschal Mystery- Passion, Death, Cycle C – features the Gospel of Luke for the
Resurrection, Ascension, and the sending whole year
of the holy spirit Solemnities and special occasion features the
5 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF LITURGY Gospel of John

1. Trinitarian Pashal  Advent – purple or blue

2. Ecclesial  Christmas – gold or white
3. Sacramental  Ordinary time - green
4. Ethically Oriented  Lent - purple
5. Eschatological  Holy Week - red
 Easter - gold or white
1. Trinitarian and Paschal  Pentecost -red
-directed to the Father, through His  Ordinary time - green
Paschal Son and the Holy Spirit.
2. Ecclesial Advent
-Liturgy is the prayer of the Church - derived from the latin word “
gathered in assembly, an ecclesial activity, Adventus” which means the coming or arrival
celebrated by the WHOLE Christ, Head
and members. -begins the church liturgical calendar
(Priest, deacons, ministers, readers,
-it is a period for devout and joyful
Christian faith)
expectation
3. Sacramental
-celebrated through symbolic, rituals, - celebrates Christ’s two-fold coming
words, and gestures. (water, oil, candle)
4. Ethically Oriented  Incarnation
-directly related to moral life and  Second coming (Parousia)
empowering full responsible discipleship.
-it consists of four weeks of advent
5. Eschatological
-making present God’s Kingdom already
began not yet
-continuation of God’s Kingdom Advent Wreath
-fully accomplished. - A circular evergreen with four candle
which symbolizes the four weeks of
advent.
 Circular shape- the eternity of God’s love with -All Catholics with the age of 18 and 59
no beginning and no ending are obliged to fast unless they are excused
or dispensed.
Green leaves – Constant and stead fast love of
God for us. Hope and Renewal. -Fasting should be observed on Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday.
Week Color Symbol represent Gospel
candle Focus Abstinence
First purpl hope Prophet’s candle Second
e coming -Means not taking meat or any other food
Second purpl love Betlehem/mangers Second determined by the bishop’s conference.
e candle coming
-all Catholic’s above 14 years of age
Third pink joy Shepherd’s candle First
obliged to abstain unless they are excused or
coming
dispensed.
Fourth purpl peace Angel’s candle First
e coming Easter Triduum
- Christ redeemed us all and gave
- The celebration of Jesus birth perfect glory to God principally
- Celebration of the incarnation of God through his pascal mystery: dying and
becoming men rising he restored our life. Therefore,
- Has two focus points the easter triduum of the passion and
Christmas day to the solemnity of Mary as mother resurrection of Christ is the
of God (January 1) culminating of the entire liturgical
year
 Epiphany to the Baptism of the
Lord(January 6) Easter Season

Lent -Celebrates Jesus resurrection from death

- Is a preparation for the celebration of -Covers 50 days between Sunday and

easter Pentecost
- Begins with ash Wednesday and end -On the 10th days, the Church celebrates
on black Saturday ascension of Jesus.
- The alleluia is not used for the
beginning of the lent until the easter Ordinary Time
vigil -divided into two group/parts:
- Includes holy week from Palm
Sunday to black Saturday -Sunday between Epiphany and Ash
- On Ash Wednesday, a universal day Wednesday.
of fasting
-Sunday between Pentecost and
- The Sundays of this season are called
Solemnity of the Christ the King
the first, second, third, fourth, and
fifth Sunday of lent. The sixth Sunday Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ the King
which marks the beginning of the
holy week, is called Passion Sunday - Celebration of the solemnity of the
(Palm Sunday) Christ the King
- -holy week has as its purpose the - End of the Liturgical Calendar
remembrance of Christ’s passion,
beginning with his Messianic
entrance into Jerusalem
- Christ is died on Good Friday
Fasting
-means taking less food that what
is usually consumed during meals, in
accordance with the norm issued by the
lawful church authority.