Church is a celebration of our God, Lord and the Holy Spirit. Liturgy of Holy Week services brought festival to my heart, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Noteworthy on Good Friday a deep sadness fills my soul as I reflected on what mankind / we did to the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ on this day. My personal reflection of this world today, and the continual sins which run wild in the hearts of some people.
Paschal Candle Liturgy, triumph over death and then lite the Paschal candle, imitating, Christ is our light. Let us walk and live in the light.
The Prayers, thanks for Christ and the Holy Spirit. Thanks for creation and all that God has done for us.
Processional Hymn, Praise Hymn, Gradual Hymn, Offertory Hymn, and the Recessional Hymn. Our singing in one voice, to glorify our Lord.
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God gave us Jesus Christ his Son, so we can be forgiven of our sins and have life in Heaven. Christ blood on the cross, his death and his resurrection, Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins.
The renewal of Baptismal: renewal our commitment to Christ, new birth by water and Holy Spirit.
Prayers of the People: Our prayers for different features of our church, our prayers for the poor, our leaders. The petitions are series of requests, asking our Father to deliver us from, sin, and destruction of natural disasters, war, and or terrorist.
The Holy Eucharist, use of prayer
from the bible and sometime near the end of the service, everyone says the ‘Lord’s Prayer’, and
In a contemporary Christian environment one of the most prominent practices to have a significant contribution to Christianity as a living religious tradition is Baptism. Baptism is of utmost importance for most Christian denominations. It has profound significance for the individual who is baptised and is also important for the Christian community as a whole. As a sacrament of initiation, Baptism calls its adherents to become missionary Disciples of Christ. It is through baptism that one’s faith journey begins and Christians are called to follow and live their lives in the light of Christ.
God sent Jesus to save us for our repentance with the promise to those who choose to follow Him will be saved (Romans 5-6).
This paper will set out to explore the implications of what it means to be liturgical in our current time and space while considering the history of the church. More specifically, I will consider the role of music and how it can aid as well as inhibit a congregation’s worship life. To do such a task I will focus on issues related to cultural specificity, didactic and evangelical effectiveness, and catholicity and confessional faithfulness.
As one is baptised, they are said to be ‘reborn’ when they emerge from the water (Lawrence, 2006), and the ‘stain’ of original sin is washed away (Saunders, 1998). In a purely physical sense, only the body has been washed from physical filth, but when looked at through the lens of symbolic spiritualism, it shows that the body and mind has been cleaned away of all previous sin to allow a closer relationship with God. This is the initiation process into the Catholic Church, however it is only one of many before one can obtain the title of a true Christian (Abrams, 2003). Once baptised, it is said that the person is part of a community that seeks out the coming of the Lord (Water Baptism, 2016). Divergently, it is clear that when one is submerged, they are symbolically dying alongside Jesus on the cross, taking the place of the thief. They are said to have had their old body killed, died alongside Jesus, only to be remerged from the water as a new person, spiritually clean, much like Jesus’ resurrection. The participant takes place as the thief next to Jesus, who did not have time to be baptised on the cross, however still pledged himself to Jesus, who said ‘Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me’ in (Luke 23:42). Another vital use of water in the Catholic faith is the use of holy water throughout the places of worship (Johns, 1997). Holy water fonts are placed at the entrances of these places of worships and Churches in accordance to the Jewish practice of purification in the Old testament. Holy water is described in the book of Leviticus to ‘remove uncleanliness’ associated with many everyday aspects of life. According to priests, holy water also acts as a way to show a symbolic removal of sin (Oestigaard, 2013), protection of evil and a way to remember our Baptism into the faith (Saunders, 2016). When looked at in relation to Baptism, it is evident
Water baptism accomplishes what the root Greek word baptizo describes, in that we are washed. The waters wash away the taint of sin from not only our bodies but from our soul as well. This physical act has spiritual implications however the visual representation of being “washed clean” is a powerful one.
Wesley pictures baptism as essential for the Church and baptism is a holy observance for
THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: OUR FRIEND, COMFORTER, TEACHER, AND PART OF THE TRINITY
Lament or Complaint Psalms: Prayers for help of individual, individual who is in serious trouble cries out to the Lord for Salvation. Prayers offer up to God when we are hurting, upset, when people betrayed you. Abandoned by God. For example, 3, 13, 22,77. These include songs that express sadness to God or complaints against God’s enemies. For example, Psalm 3 is a Lament Psalm that begins, “Lord, how many are my foes! / How many revolt against me!” (verse 1). Some complaint psalms sound quite negative, though they are set within a context of God responding in love or power. Psalm 44:23–24. For example, says, “Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?
The symbols of the celebration help us to understand the value of the sacramental celebration for us to take it more serious; also to help us to remember at every moment the concept of been Christians and why we are calling for. For each day of our existences there are stuffs we do at the similar period, at the identical place and in the equal direction. These particular activities turn out to be ceremonies when we deliberately give them a greater significance and resolution. Sacraments aid us comprehend ways of existence and ways of performance in a certain beliefs and environment. Rituals support us to connect in and provide us a logic of personality and fitting. They support us to appreciate extraordinary periods and events and they tell
praise and gratitude to Him. We present our petitions for our needs and the needs of
“What is a church?” Now that seems like a easy question, the sort of question one might answer in an simple sentence or two. “A church is a building in which Christians meet for worship,” is one obvious possibility. “A church is a group of Christians who gather for religious purposes” is another. A critic might says, “A church is a club for insiders and hypocrites.” These quick answers don’t take us very far if we want to understand truly what a church ought to be.
Another important part of the celebration took place inside the temple, the Exultet or Easter Proclamation was sung by a member of the choir. In the past, a priest or a deacon has sung the Exultet, so this was new to me. The Exultet is a song of hope and triumph, because Christ has overcome death. The Exultet is followed by the Liturgy of the Word, which consisted in readings from the Old Testament, the epistle and the Gospel. The readings summarize the history of Salvation. For example, the reading from Genesis described creation, the reading from the Exodus the liberation of Egypt and the Gospel proclaimed the Resurrection of Christ. After each reading psalms were sung. However, during this celebration there were only 4 readings. During the reading of the Gospel, candles were relit to remind us the resurrection of Christ.
For what do we pray? Prayer is the key to the heart of God. Prayer is the only way to a real and personal relationship with God.
And as a body of believers surely, the Lord’s Prayer means something vastly different to an individual however we was giving the Lord’s Prayer as a model of how we should pray. At Mass the priest invited the congregation to “Lift up their hearts” that is what prayer is—lifting our hearts to God. The basic worship in Mass service is surrounding the heart to God to letting him purify and cleanse our heart. The priest led the people as they recited the prayers of the as a body.