lesson 1 catholic worship

8/6/2019 Lesson 1 Catholic Worship

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CCATHOLICATHOLIC

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Objectives Definition

Worship in Sacred Scripture

Worship in the CCC/ PCP II Ritual


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OOBJECTIVESBJECTIVES

To understand the meaning of authentic

Catholic worship

To appreciate the importance of worship inones life

To render worship to God as Creator,

Redeemer and Sanctifier through daily

prayer


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IINTRODUCTIONNTRODUCTION

This expresses our loving relationship with the

living God

It is natural to us Filipinos

It flows from our inborn gratitude for the gift of life


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WWORSHIPORSHIP Worship is interior reverence and

homage offered to the Divine Majestythrough words and actions in public

ritual Elements:

Inner attitude of reverence and homage

before the Divine Majesty Outward expression in signs of word,

action, song, dance usually celebrated inpublic ritual


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WWORSHIPORSHIP ININ SSCRIPTURECRIPTURE

Old Testament:

Yahweh called the

Israelites to acceptable

worship1. by his covenant

commandment:

You shall not have

other gods besides

me you shall not

bow down before

them or worship

them (Dt. 5:6-9) the


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WWORSHIPORSHIP IINN SSCRIPTURECRIPTURE

2. Through His prophets, 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, widow and

orphan (cf. Isaiah 1:11-17; 58: 1-10; Amos

5:21-24)


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ISAIAH 1:11-17

What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says theLORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fatof fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I findno pleasure. When you come in to visit me, who asksthese things of you? Trample my courts no more! Bringno more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsometo me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies,octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear. Yournew moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down,

I tire of the load. When you spread out your hands, Iclose my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I willnot listen. Your hands are full of blood! Washyourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds frombefore my eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good.

Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear'


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ISAIAH 58: 1-10Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my

people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me dayafter day, and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done what is just

and not abandoned the law of their God; They ask me to declare what is due

them, pleased to gain access to God. "Why do we fast, and you do not see it?

afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?" Lo, on your fast day you carry out

your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers. Yes, your fast ends in quarrelling

and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as tomake your voice heard on high! Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a

day of penance: That a man bow his head like a reed, and lie in sackcloth and

ashes? Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? This, rather, is

the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs

of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; Sharing your

bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your

own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly

be healed; Your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the LORD shall

be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry

for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst

oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow yourbread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in


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AMOS 5:21-24

I hate, I spurn your feasts, I take nopleasure in your solemnities; Your

cereal offerings I will not accept, nor

consider your stall-fed peace offerings.Away with your noisy songs! I will not

listen to the melodies of your harps. But

if you would offer me holocausts, thenlet justice surge like water, and

goodness like an unfailing stream.


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WWORSHIPORSHIP ININ SSCRIPTURECRIPTURE

New Testament

Jesus purified

worship by linking itdirectly with daily

moral living

He denouncedempty ritualism


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MATTHEW 12: 8 13

Moving on from there, he went into their synagogue.

And behold, there was a man there who had a

withered hand. They questioned him, "Is it lawful to

cure on the sabbath? so that they might accusehim. He said to them, "Which one of you who

has a sheep that falls into a pit on the sabbath

will not take hold of it and lift it out? How much

more valuable a person is than a sheep. So it islawful to do good on the sabbath. Then he said

to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it

out, and it was restored as sound as the other.


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WWORSHIPORSHIP ACCORDINGACCORDING TOTO CCCCCC

To adore God is to acknowledge, in respectand

absolute submission, the "nothingness of the

creature" who would not exist but for God. Toadore God is to praise and exalt him and to

humble oneself, as Mary did in the Magnificat,

confessing with gratitude that he has donegreat

things and holy is his name. The worship of the

one God sets man free from turning in on

himself, from the slavery of sin and the idolatry


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Levels of Reverence

1. Latria: reverence due to God alone

2. Hyperdulia: reverence to the Blessed

Virgin Mary3. Dulia: reverence due to the angels

and saints


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WWORSHIPORSHIP AACCORDINGCCORDING TOTO PCP IIPCP II

Worship can beexpressed ondifferent levels

1. Personal prayerand devotion

2. Group prayer

3. Liturgical worship- has communalandceremonial/ritual

elements


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RRITUALITUAL

Ritual in the broadest meaning, includes

both secular and religious ceremonies

Religious rituals is common to Filipinos,yet mixed with numerous superstitious

practices

Authentic religious rituals develop apersonal relationship with God through

actions characterized by four constant

characteristics:


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RRITUALITUALCharacteristics of Ritual

1. Symbolic use of natural signs to makepresent the divine

2. Consecratory enables the participants toshare in the divine life/ grace

3. Repetitive designed to be repeated;repetition links the past saving event and

the religious event that the ritual celebrates

4. Commemorative memorializes the pastsaving event via celebration of the rite


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ASSIGNMENT

Give an example of a ritual that you

practice:

As a family or groupAs an individual

Does these rituals you practice contain

the characteristics we described?Explain briefly.

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