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Divine Worship at Prince of Peace celebrating divine worship at prince of peace Introduction You may be new here at Prince of Peace, or a long-time parishioner. One of the things about our parish that it does not take too long to figure out, is that this is an extraordinary parish for ordinary people . There is something different about it, and the way we celebrate the Sacred Liturgy here is very different than the way Mass is celebrated in many places in the United States. It is extraordinary because of the beauty and devotion with which we come to the Mystery of Faith. This little booklet will help you to understand better why Prince of Peace is different, and prepare you to actively enter into divine worship with us. Welcome! The SacreSacredd Liturgy Christians have gathered on the LORD+s Day ever since that first Eucharist when Jesus bent over bread and wine and said, This is My Body. This is My Blood. Do this in memory of Me. In the early Church, Christians always gathered around the Bishop. We know very little about how they worshipped, but ancient texts like the Didache and the Apostolic Constitutions 1 have given us a glimpse into their prayer life. At a very early 1 read these at http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html and http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0715.htm stage, prayers composed for worship were written down and handed down from one generation to the next. Collections of these began to appear, and were taken all over the Christian world. Soon, they were made into Sacramentaries and Missals. Even though there was a lot of diversity in the way that Christians worshipped from place to place, a pattern emerged that would become common to all Christian communities. As the way Christians worshipped solidified, they came to be known as rites. There are 23 families of rites in the Catholic Church. The vast majority of Catholics worship according to the Roman, or Latin, Rite. The Roman Rite has its origins in the liturgy as celebrated in Rome by the Pope in the Basilicas. This Rite was carried all over Western Europe, and had already achieved its substantial unity by the time of St Gregory the Great :r. 590-604>. This classical Roman Rite, as it was called, had variants in different places, but there were also many places who modeled their liturgy after the Pope+s. When the Protestant Reform struck at the heart of the unity of the Church, it was considered desirable to unify Catholic worship even more, to ensure that, wherever the Mass was celebrated, it would reflect the mind of the Church. In 1570, Pope St Pius V took the liturgy as celebrated in Rome and 2 extended it to the Universal Church. This Missal was carried by European missionaries to the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There had always been organic development of the liturgy, as new feasts were added and ceremonies modified. Venerable Fulton Sheen is quoted to have once said, AWhenever the Church incorporates something into her liturgy it never entirely drops out.B As Catholics, we believe that the law of prayer is the law of belief. The way we pray influences what we believe and how we live. The liturgy is a sacred action, and we believe that it is principally the action of Christ Himself who offers Himself to the Father. It is an action in which we have the privilege to participate in because of our Baptism. But we also the duty to prepare ourselves to participate in it well and with great devotion. The liturgy is the public prayer of the Church. It is not a private devotion. As such, no one is permitted to add, subtract, 3 or modify the liturgy because of personal whims or taste. The discipline of the liturgy assures its conformity with the teaching of Christ and His Church. While other forms of prayer are 2 read Quo primum :1570> at http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P5QUOPRI.HTM 3 Sacrosanctum concilium 22 , General Instruction on the Roman Missal :2010> 24 praiseworthy, and also a part of Christian life, none of them are like the public prayer of the Church. That prayer takes many forms. The most important form is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass , in which the faithful gather to co- offer with the priest the unbloody representation of the one Sacrifice of Calvary. The Missal and the Lectionary provide the prayers and readings for the Mass. Next comes the Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office . The Divine Office complements the Mass by providing moments of prayer throughout the day, taken from the Psalms, other Scripture readings and readings from the Church Fathers and Theologians. The Breviary provides those readings. The Sacraments and Blessings, such as Sacramentals, of the Church, are provided in the Ritual or Book of Blessings. They fill out those other moments of prayer. There are also other services such as Processions and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, which form part of our liturgical tradition. Vatican II reminded the Church that the liturgy is the Asource 4 and summit of Christian life.B Catholics experience Christ through the liturgical and sacramental life of the Church, which was willed by Christ Himself. He gives power to His Church to 4 Lumen Gentium 11, Catechism of the Catholic Church 1324 create and modify the Rites through which we celebrate our faith. They are a great gift, which is not ours to dominate or manipulate, but to lovingly receive and hand on to others. There should never be a sense of stinginess or minimalism in our worship of God. Instead, we should maximalize our worship of the Triune God. A Feast for the SensSenseseseses The liturgy is not just a time for learning, although we can learn much through the liturgy. We use all of our senses: hearing, touch, taste, smell, and sight, when we come to adore God. The arts and music have always had a privileged place in divine worship. We give our best to God, and seek to celebrate the Mass in the most beautiful way possible. In doing so, we give something beautiful to God which is the common patrimony, not only of the Church, but of all humanity. Beautiful churches, ceremonies, vestments and appointments all help raise our minds to God. We should spare no expense or effort in adorning our divine worship, always mindful of our duty to take care of those who need our help. At Prince of Peace, our worship is a Feast for the Senses. When the pagan Vladimir happened upon the Church of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople for the first time and saw the beauty of the Christian Divine Liturgy, he exclaimed, AI did not know whether I was in heaven or on earth.B The liturgy is not meant to entertain or inspire in the way a theatrical piece, a concert, or a rousing speech can. The liturgy is a communal action of the whole Church, in which everyone has a role and a place, and entering into that common prayer, we are raised beyond ourselves to transcendence. Every detail of the liturgy, then, from the incense used at the High Mass to the prayers said together at Low Mass is important in bringing us closer to God. Vatican II and the Renewal of the Liturgy From time to time, however, we begin to take the liturgy for granted. We become complacent in our Christian walk and forget the newness, the power, and the promise of Catholic worship. The last ecumenical council, Vatican II :1962-5>, was concerned that the liturgy again become a vital element in the renewal, not only of the Church, but also society itself. Pope Benedict XVI once wrote: We might say that … the liturgy was rather like a fresco Iin the early 20th centuryJ. It had been preserved from damage, but it had been almost completely overlaid with whitewash by later generations. In the Missal from which the priest celebrated, the form of the liturgy that had grown from its earliest beginnings was still present, but, as far as the faithful were concerned, it was largely concealed beneath instructions for and forms of private prayer. The fresco was laid bare by the Liturgical Movement and, in a definitive way, by the Second Vatican Council. For a moment its colors and figures fascinated us. But since then the fresco has been endangered by climatic conditions as well as by various restorations and reconstructions. In fact, it is threatened with destruction, if the necessary steps are not taken to stop these damaging influences. Of course, there must be no question of its being covered with whitewash again, but what is imperative is a new reverence in the way we treat it, a new understanding of its message and its reality, so that rediscovery does not become the first 5 stage of irreparable loss.B A new movement called the Liturgical Movement, sought to renew the way that Catholics worshipped. There was much th enthusiasm in the early 20 century for the Liturgical Movement. Some thought that, if we could go back to the 5 The Spirit of the Liturgy , 7-8. sources of Christian liturgy, the Church and world would be renewed. But Pope Pius XII in his letter Mediator Dei wrote, AIt is a wise and most laudable thing to return in spirit and affection to the sources of the sacred liturgy. But it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every 6 possible device.B At Vatican II, the Council Fathers called for the Roman liturgy to be reviewed, and that changes be made to it to make its riches more accessible to the faithful.
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