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advent recollection sermon 3 Advent Recollection 12 15 2012 St. Anthony of Padua Chapel North Caldwell, NJ Introductory Sermon In the name… Intro ( 3 points) Purpose of this Recollection: to Sanctify …More
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Advent Recollection 12 15 2012 St. Anthony of Padua Chapel North Caldwell, NJ
Introductory Sermon
In the name… Intro ( 3 points)
Purpose of this Recollection: to Sanctify ourselves
We do this by Prayer
Intention/Grace to ask for
Purpose: For this is the will of God, your sanctification
Prayer: Man is a spiritual Man, that is, a man of Grace. This Grace is obtained through prayer.
Cassian defined prayer as the elevating of the mind to God
Prayer is not only private, but is expressed publicly especially through the official worship of the Church, through her liturgy which is continued annually through the Liturgical Year.
Communion of Saints
Our Father, teach US how to pray, forgive us OUR trespasses
Topics of conference will focus on the Liturgy of Advent & Christmas, The Spirit of Advent (Fr. R), and Crosses & Graces of the Holy Family (Fr. R), how we can pray better, both publicly & privately, focusing on the Graces we can receive during the Advent & Christmas season
Graces/Intention:
For the Parish: Its growth & increase in its fidelity, continuity , continuation & Sanctification of all its members
For the various Recently deceased of the Parish, as well as the Sick of the parish, namely: Edward Barth, Dr. Otto & Mary Carabba, Paul Herrera, Elaine Keefer, Lois Ludwig, Doris Parzel, Arti Richardi, Barbara Ryan, Stan Spodaryk. & Julia Birchler
Ask especially for increase of Graces this time of Liturgical year has to offer, and as the Collect from the First Sunday of Advent asks, “That we may be freed from the imminent danger of our sins, and be saved by thy Mercy.”
Conference #1: Advent and Christmas: A Historico/Liturgical Overview
In the name… Intro: Man is a man of Prayer. Let us especially unite ourselves to the public prayer of the Church, i.e, the Liturgy, by focusing on
What the Liturgy is
History of the Advent & Christmas Liturgy
How to better Participate in the Liturgy
What is the Liturgy?
Official Public Prayer of the Church
Greek leitourgos, which means Public Duty
Pope Piux XII in his encyclical Mediator Dei on the Sacred Liturgy states that the Liturgy is the Public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the Church renders to the Father as well as the worship which the community of the faithful renders to its Founder (Our Lord), and through him to the Heavenly Father. It is, in short, the worship rendered by the Mystical Body of Christ in the entirety of its Head and members.
The Liturgy is centered around and is the Mass, which is the official public prayer of the Church, and is at the heart of our Religion. As I have mentioned in the apologetics classes, if we understand just a bit about the Mass, it would completely change our perspective. Here is what the Popes have to say about the Mass and the Liturgy.
Pope St. Pius X states, “The active participation in the most holy Mysteries and in the public & solemn prayer in the Church is the first and indispensable source of the true Christian Spirit.”
Pope Pius XI, commenting in the importance , power & value of the liturgy explains, “In instructing the people in the divine truths and raising them to spiritual and interior joys, the splendors of the Liturgy are more efficacious of the ecclesiastical magisterium and even more important.”
The Liturgy is centered around and is the Mass, the Official Public Worship of the Church, and its spirit, or “attitude” we should have is manifest in the various seasons of the Liturgical year
2 Main Seasons/Cycles: Christmas & Easter
Christmas:
Advent
Christmastide (Christmas Vigil to the Epiphany)
Time after Epiphany
History of the Advent
Advent: Coming of our Lord
References early as the 5th Century
12 Century: Sermons of St. Bernard In Adventu Domini
Oldest: History of the Franks by St. Gregory of Tours: A fast was declared 3 times a week from the feast of St. Martin (Nov. 12) until Christmas
St. Peter Damian references Fasting of 40 days:
“St. Martin’s Lent” & spread from France to England, as is referenced by Venerable Bede, Also Sundays of the Annunciation
Some places 6 Sundays (Liturgy according St. Ambrose & the Spanish—Mozarabic,)
Reduced: to 4 Sundays in 9th Century by a Letter of Pope St. Nicholas to the Bulgarians.
Now the practice of four, with the first Sunday of Advent being near to that of the Feast of St. Andrew
How to better Participate in the Liturgy
Follow the Liturgy & Liturgical year
Pope St. Pius X states, “The active participation in the most holy Mysteries and in the public & solemn prayer in the Church is the first and indispensable source of the true Christian Spirit.”
We can follow the time of Advent
Commemorate Our Lord’s Ancestry, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Acknowledge the Patriarchs from Adam to St. Joseph
Jacob, Judah, Moses, David, Michaes, Jeremias, Ezechiel, Daniel, Joel, Zacharias, Habacuc, Osea, Aggeus, Malachias, and especially Isaias, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Office & Missal, the Official Liturgical books of the Church makes reference to:
The anticipation of Our Lord’s Arrival
“Come Lord, tarry no longer—do not delay”, “the Lord is nigh, come let us adore him”, “the Lord is nigh”, “The King who is to come, O come let us adore him”,
Purification of Our Souls
Make straight his paths, “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” “pray & do penance unto the remission of sins”
Practice of the Virtue of Charity (St. Paul’s Epistles)
But above all these things have Charity, which is the bond of perfection, and the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, where you are called in one body, and be ye thankful.” “All you do in word & work, do you for our Lord Jesus Christ’
Advent helps see our Lord as the center of the whole history of the world, since the fall we wait for a redeemer and a judge, and we can live this every year with the liturgy
Sources: St. Andrew’s Missal, Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger, Year of Grace by Leonard Goffine, Mediator Dei by Pope Pius XII
Advent Recollection 12 15 2012 St. Anthony of Padua Chapel North Caldwell, NJ
Introductory Sermon
In the name… Intro ( 3 points)
Purpose of this Recollection: to Sanctify ourselves
We do this by Prayer
Intention/Grace to ask for
Purpose: For this is the will of God, your sanctification
Prayer: Man is a spiritual Man, that is, a man of Grace. This Grace is obtained through prayer.
Cassian defined prayer as the elevating of the mind to God
Prayer is not only private, but is expressed publicly especially through the official worship of the Church, through her liturgy which is continued annually through the Liturgical Year.
Communion of Saints
Our Father, teach US how to pray, forgive us OUR trespasses
Topics of conference will focus on the Liturgy of Advent & Christmas, The Spirit of Advent (Fr. R), and Crosses & Graces of the Holy Family (Fr. R), how we can pray better, both publicly & privately, focusing on the Graces we can receive during the Advent & Christmas season
Graces/Intention:
For the Parish: Its growth & increase in its fidelity, continuity , continuation & Sanctification of all its members
For the various Recently deceased of the Parish, as well as the Sick of the parish, namely: Edward Barth, Dr. Otto & Mary Carabba, Paul Herrera, Elaine Keefer, Lois Ludwig, Doris Parzel, Arti Richardi, Barbara Ryan, Stan Spodaryk. & Julia Birchler
Ask especially for increase of Graces this time of Liturgical year has to offer, and as the Collect from the First Sunday of Advent asks, “That we may be freed from the imminent danger of our sins, and be saved by thy Mercy.”
Conference #1: Advent and Christmas: A Historico/Liturgical Overview
In the name… Intro: Man is a man of Prayer. Let us especially unite ourselves to the public prayer of the Church, i.e, the Liturgy, by focusing on
What the Liturgy is
History of the Advent & Christmas Liturgy
How to better Participate in the Liturgy
What is the Liturgy?
Official Public Prayer of the Church
Greek leitourgos, which means Public Duty
Pope Piux XII in his encyclical Mediator Dei on the Sacred Liturgy states that the Liturgy is the Public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the Church renders to the Father as well as the worship which the community of the faithful renders to its Founder (Our Lord), and through him to the Heavenly Father. It is, in short, the worship rendered by the Mystical Body of Christ in the entirety of its Head and members.
The Liturgy is centered around and is the Mass, which is the official public prayer of the Church, and is at the heart of our Religion. As I have mentioned in the apologetics classes, if we understand just a bit about the Mass, it would completely change our perspective. Here is what the Popes have to say about the Mass and the Liturgy.
Pope St. Pius X states, “The active participation in the most holy Mysteries and in the public & solemn prayer in the Church is the first and indispensable source of the true Christian Spirit.”
Pope Pius XI, commenting in the importance , power & value of the liturgy explains, “In instructing the people in the divine truths and raising them to spiritual and interior joys, the splendors of the Liturgy are more efficacious of the ecclesiastical magisterium and even more important.”
The Liturgy is centered around and is the Mass, the Official Public Worship of the Church, and its spirit, or “attitude” we should have is manifest in the various seasons of the Liturgical year
2 Main Seasons/Cycles: Christmas & Easter
Christmas:
Advent
Christmastide (Christmas Vigil to the Epiphany)
Time after Epiphany
History of the Advent
Advent: Coming of our Lord
References early as the 5th Century
12 Century: Sermons of St. Bernard In Adventu Domini
Oldest: History of the Franks by St. Gregory of Tours: A fast was declared 3 times a week from the feast of St. Martin (Nov. 12) until Christmas
St. Peter Damian references Fasting of 40 days:
“St. Martin’s Lent” & spread from France to England, as is referenced by Venerable Bede, Also Sundays of the Annunciation
Some places 6 Sundays (Liturgy according St. Ambrose & the Spanish—Mozarabic,)
Reduced: to 4 Sundays in 9th Century by a Letter of Pope St. Nicholas to the Bulgarians.
Now the practice of four, with the first Sunday of Advent being near to that of the Feast of St. Andrew
How to better Participate in the Liturgy
Follow the Liturgy & Liturgical year
Pope St. Pius X states, “The active participation in the most holy Mysteries and in the public & solemn prayer in the Church is the first and indispensable source of the true Christian Spirit.”
We can follow the time of Advent
Commemorate Our Lord’s Ancestry, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
Acknowledge the Patriarchs from Adam to St. Joseph
Jacob, Judah, Moses, David, Michaes, Jeremias, Ezechiel, Daniel, Joel, Zacharias, Habacuc, Osea, Aggeus, Malachias, and especially Isaias, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
Office & Missal, the Official Liturgical books of the Church makes reference to:
The anticipation of Our Lord’s Arrival
“Come Lord, tarry no longer—do not delay”, “the Lord is nigh, come let us adore him”, “the Lord is nigh”, “The King who is to come, O come let us adore him”,
Purification of Our Souls
Make straight his paths, “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” “pray & do penance unto the remission of sins”
Practice of the Virtue of Charity (St. Paul’s Epistles)
But above all these things have Charity, which is the bond of perfection, and the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, where you are called in one body, and be ye thankful.” “All you do in word & work, do you for our Lord Jesus Christ’
Advent helps see our Lord as the center of the whole history of the world, since the fall we wait for a redeemer and a judge, and we can live this every year with the liturgy
Sources: St. Andrew’s Missal, Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger, Year of Grace by Leonard Goffine, Mediator Dei by Pope Pius XII