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Week 1 – Is actually God or a lying Lunatic Jesus, who he is and his teachings Week 2 – What was the supposed to do? Week 3 – The to joy, according to Jesus Week 4 – Why Jesus is so counter-cultural today Wee 5 – Who is God, and why does he matter? Questions of God, including evil Week 6 – If God exists, why is there so much evil in the world Week 7 – Why do Catholic care so much about Mary? Mary, role in the Church Week 8 – This is the woman who still changes the world Week 9 – Do you know these two indispensable men? Peter and Paul, at its beginnings Week 10 – We would not be Christians if it weren’t for this man Week 11 – What is the Church? (hint it’s not a building) Church Week 12 – This is how you recognize the true Church Week 13 – The is useless (and why that’s a good thing) Mass Week 14 – Is the Eucharist just a symbol or something more? Week 15 – These are the people you should imitate Saints Week 16 – How far would you go? Week 17 – How to pray like the masters Prayer Week 18 – Does God answer all prayers Week 19 – We all die, so we’re all asking this question End of Life Week 20 – What can we know about angels? Angels 6 Ground Rules for Going to Mass

1. Know why we do this 2. This is a ritual 3. This is not entertainment 4. There is only ONE MASS 5. Each person has a part 6. Know to whom you are speaking A Sign A Symbol A Sacrament When dealing with God, His words effect what they symbolize II. WHAT IS THIS SACRAMENT CALLED? 1328 The inexhaustible richness of this sacrament is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it. It is called: Eucharist, because it is an action of thanksgiving to God. The Greek words eucharistein and eulogein recall the Jewish blessings that proclaim - especially during a meal - God's works: creation, redemption, and sanctification.

1329 The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem. The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meal when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread, above all at the . It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection, and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies; by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into with him and form but one body in him. The Eucharistic assembly, because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.

1330 The of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection. The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church's offering. The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, "sacrifice of praise," spiritual sacrifice, pure and holy sacrifice are also used, since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. The Holy and Divine Liturgy, because the Church's whole liturgy finds its center and most intense expression in the celebration of this sacrament; in the same sense we also call its celebration the Sacred Mysteries. We speak of the Most because it is the Sacrament of sacraments. The Eucharistic species reserved in the tabernacle are designated by this same name. 1331 Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body. We also call it: the holy things the first meaning of the phrase "communion of saints" in the Apostles' Creed - the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality, . . . . 1332 Holy Mass (Missa), because the liturgy in which the mystery of salvation is accomplished concludes with the sending forth (missio) of the faithful, so that they may fulfill God's will in their daily lives. A prism seeing from Layers on top of layers different angles

It is all this and more! do not restrict its definition as if any one definition could define it completely or that you have a full understanding WIKIPEDIA Sometimes expanded as Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi (Latin: "the law of what is prayed [is] what is believed [is] the law of what is lived"), is a motto in Christian tradition, which means: that prayer and belief are integral to each other and that liturgy is not distinct from theology. It refers to the relationship between worship and belief. Order of the Mass

Introductory Rite LITURGY OF THE WORD LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Concluding Rite LITURGY OF THE WORD Completion of of Completion the Liturgy of the Word

First Psalm Second Creed Prayer of Reading Reading The Faithful LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Communion Rite to Prepare Prepare Eucharistic Prayer for the Reception of Communion Completion of of Completion Communion Our Father Peace Sign of the Gifts and prayer of the Gifts Invitation to communion Preparation Communion Rite Consecration) (Especially the and Prayer over Invitation to pray Eucharist Prayer after communion Lamb of God and Structure of the Eucharistic Prayer 1)Thanksgiving

It is truly right and just, our duty and salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Father most holy, through your beloved Son, Jesus (expressed especially in the Preface): In Christ, your Word through whom you which the priest, in the name of the entire made all things, whom you sent as our holy people, glorifies God the Father and Savior and Redeemer, incarnate by gives thanks for the whole work of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin. salvation or for some special aspect of it Fulfilling your will and gaining for you that corresponds to the day, festivity, or a holy people, he stretched out his season. hands as he endured his Passion, so as to break the bonds of death and manifest the resurrection. And so, with the Angels and all the Saints we declare your glory, as with one voice we acclaim: 2) Acclamation

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of Hosts, Heaven and earth are full In which the whole congregation, of your glory. Hosanna in the joining with the heavenly powers, sings highest. Blessed is he who the . This acclamation, which is comes in the name of the Lord. part of the Eucharistic Prayer itself, is Hosanna in the highest. sung or said by all the people with the priest.

Let us proclaim : A - We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again. B - When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again. C - Save us, Savior of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free. 3) In which, by means of particular invocations, the Church implores Humbly we pray that, the power of the Holy Spirit that partaking of the Body the gifts offered by human hands and , we be consecrated, that is, become may be gathered into Christ’s Body and Blood, and that one by the Holy Spirit. the spotless Victim to be received in Communion be for the salvation of those who will partake of it. 4) Institution Narrative and Consecration

At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his Passion, he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: In which, by means of words and actions of Christ, the TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT: FOR THIS IS MY Sacrifice is carried out which BODY WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU. In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the Christ himself instituted at the and, once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, Last Supper, when he offered saying: his Body and Blood under the species of bread and wine, TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT: FOR THIS IS gave them to his Apostles to THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THE NEW eat and drink, and left them AND ETERNAL COVENANT, WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT the command to perpetuate FOR YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF this same mystery. SINS. DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME. 5) - remembering 6) Offering – of ourselves with Christ

Therefore, as we celebrate In which the Church, fulfilling the memorial of his Death the command that she received and Resurrection, we offer from Christ the Lord through the you, Lord, the Bread of life Apostles, keeps the memorial and the Chalice of salvation, of Christ, recalling especially giving thanks that you have his blessed Passion, glorious held us worthy to be in your Resurrection, and Ascension presence and minister to into heaven. you. 7) Intercession Church Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the By which expression is On earth fullness of charity, together with N. our given to the fact that the Pope and N. our and all the clergy. Eucharist is celebrated in communion with the entire Those Remember also our brothers and sisters Church, of heaven as well who who have fallen asleep in the hope of the as of earth, and that the offering is made for her have resurrection and all who have died in your mercy: welcome them into the light of and for all her members, died your face. living and dead, who have been called to participate in Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the redemption and the salvation purchased by Those the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Christ’s Body and Blood. present with the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased you throughout and the the ages, we may merit to be co-heirs to saints eternal life, and may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ. 8) Final

Trinity Priest: Through him, with him, and in By which the glorification him, Oh God almighty Father, in the of God is expressed and To the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and is confirmed and honor is yours, for ever and ever. concluded by the Father, people’s acclamation, Through Amen. the Son, All: Amen. In the Holy Spirit LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Communion Rite to Prepare Prepare Eucharistic Prayer for the Reception of Communion Completion of of Completion Communion Our Father Peace Sign of the Gifts Preface and prayer of the Gifts Invitation to communion Preparation

Communion Question of fraction Rite

Consecration) Open (Especially the Communion and Prayer over Invitation to pray Eucharist Prayer after communion Lamb of God and LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST after the Last Supper Road to Emmaus in Luke - he took the bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him.” They went back to Jerusalem and in amazement told the disciples “what had happened in the road and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread” (24:35).

In Acts of the Apostles, the apostles and disciples celebrated the Eucharist: “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the prayers” (Acts 2:42).

St. Paul - The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the ?” (1 Cor 10:16).

The 60-100 AD - “But every Lord’s day [Sunday] gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure” (XIV). “Now concerning the Thanksgiving [Eucharist], thus give thanks. First concerning the cup… And concerning the broken bread…” (IX).

St. Ignatius of Antioch – 110 AD - they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 6:2, 7:1). LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST after the Last Supper St Justin Martyr – 150 AD - - “Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished… is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus” (First Apology 66:1–20). Origen – ca. 244 A.D. - “You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish” ( on Exodus 13:3).

St Ambrose of Milan – 387 AD - “It is the true Flesh of Christ which was crucified and buried, this is then truly the Sacrament of His Body. The Lord Jesus Himself proclaims: “This Is My Body” (On the Mysteries 9, 53-54). Eucharistic Controversies of the 9th Century (Ratramnus) and 11th Century (Barengarius of Tours) and the 16th Reformation (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli) varying degrees of presence and how, (consubstantiation, symbolic) The – 1551 - reaffirmed that it was not reasonable to say that the Real Presence was limited to the moment of reception, as Martin Luther held, but that it remained afterward. 1374 The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present." 1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy has fittingly and properly called .”

1377 The Eucharistic presence of Christ begins at the moment of the consecration and endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist. Christ is present whole and entire in each of the species and whole and entire in each of their parts, in such a way that the breaking of the bread does not divide Christ. 1378 Worship of the Eucharist. … "The Catholic Church has always offered and still offers to the sacrament of the Eucharist the cult of adoration, not only during Mass, but also outside of it, reserving the consecrated hosts with the utmost care, exposing them to the solemn veneration of the faithful, and carrying them in procession."