Script for PowerPoint
Preparing for Sunday: Living Liturgy – Living Life
Module Two
Sunday, 22 April 2007
This text accompanies the PowerPoint presentation for the second module of Worshipping Under Southern Skies: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Mass. It is envisaged that a single narrator (the priest?) delivers the script while a projectionist controls the power point presentation in line with the cues in the boxes. We have the permission of the Bishops’ Conference for this presentation to replace the sermon on Sunday, 22 April 2007.
Please practise this presentation taking note of the cues, before delivering it!
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Since the launch of Module One: Our Beginnings, Catholics throughout New Zealand have been reflecting on the liturgy. Parishes, schools and communities have used the material in many and varied ways. This powerpoint launches the second module: Preparing for Sunday: Living Liturgy – Living Life”
Click to St Mary’s Church,Wanganui
We are all asked to go to attend mass every Sunday
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This is the Christian way of fulfilling the fourth commandment “Keep the Lord’s Day holy”
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A question often asked is…
If God is everywhere…
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Why go to Church?
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The answer is…
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God does not need buildings, times, rituals, gatherings…
we do.
God is all holy, it is human beings who need to set aside holy times and holy places.
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We can and should pray anywhere
… and everywhere.
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But this is not liturgy.
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Liturgy happens when the disciples of Jesus gather in worship as the Church. We pray as individuals. We worship as Church.
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What is the Church? Is it the building or the people?
We call both of these, the building and the people, “church”, but the root meaning of the word is the ‘people assembled’. The Church is God’s people gathered in worship.
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The bishops of the Second Vatican Council, in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, taught that Christ is always present:
- in the Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations;
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- in the person of the ordained minister;
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- and especially in the consecrated Bread and Wine.
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- Christ is present with us as we listen to His Word.
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- and lastly, Christ is present when the Church prays and sings, for Jesus has promised, “where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.” (Mt. 18:20).
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So, we gather as Church to encounter Christ, who calls us together. It is in his name that we pray. We listen to God’s Word, and, as we remember his passion, death and resurrection, he becomes truly present.
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And it is Christ who sends us out from the liturgy to our work in the world. The Eucharist missions us to live just and holy lives.
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To conclude – a piece of information about one little change that is likely to be in the revised English translation of the Missal: the words of the dismissal.
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The official language of the liturgy of the WesternChurch is Latin. The Latin words used here are, “Ite, missa est”.
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The word “missa” is the origin of our English word “Mass”. Most prayers are named after their first words – Our Father, Hail Mary…However, the Mass is named after what is almost its last word.
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The literal translation of “Ite, missa est” is “Go, it is let out” which does not work well in English.
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One of the translations we have been using is: “The mass is ended. Go in peace.”
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This actually adds in an idea - “in peace” - which is not in the Latin. It also overlooks an overtone which many people read into the word “missa”: - the notion of “mission”, of “being sent”.
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So, in dropping the addition and attempting to catch the flavour of “missa”, the new formula of dismissal is likely to be: “Go forth, the mass is ended.”
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The changes we are preparing for, as far as the people’s parts are concerned, are like this: small, subtle, echoing the sacred Scriptures and faithful to the Latin.
We continue our encounter with Christ, who gathers us together; who is with us as we listen to God’s Word; who becomes present as we remember his passion, death and resurrection; and who sends us forth “to make disciples of all nations”.
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