The Liturgy & A Catholic Home IV

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1. Eucharist/ liturgy is source and summit of the Christan life as evidenced by the witness/ martyrs

The early Christians at a very great cost, would gather on the Lord’s day, the 8th day, Sunday for public worship. Charges of being a Christian carried significant risk. Torture was considered a good method of extracting information. If home liturgy was sufficient, it would have been safer for all to remain hidden at home. But such was not the case. (Justin Martyr gives the earlies complete account of the liturgy[1]

1. Define Catholic Home, domestic church, Eucharist as summit, necessarily reflected in a Catholic Home

Home-

Noun (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

1. A place where one lives; a residence.
2. The physical structure within which one lives, such as a house or apartment.
3. A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it; a household.

Catholic- This term (from Greek katholikos meaning universal or according to the whole) was first used by Ignatius of Antioch early second century AD) it describes the unity of local churches under their local bishops. Catholic is also one of the four marks of the Church in the Nicene Creed (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic). Catholic come to be associated with a particular way of being Christian that emphasizes the doctrines and practices of the early Church and the celebration of the sacraments.[2] CCC #750

Domestic church Just as the early Christians held their religious services in house churches, so to the Christian home was described by Vatican II as a domestic church, where parents teach their children Christian virtues by living the Gospel message on a daily basis.[3] CCC #1655-1658

Words & deeds daily

Ex/ body of knowledge and defined praxis, practicum, practice. Body of knowledge of surgery, dentistry, and subsequent correct practices.

Appropriate to any group, given control particular knowledge and have a proper way of practice.

JC gave us knowledge and practice.

Ex/ We are Beatty’s talk way of doing things. Small way. Liturgical living body of knowledge and in practice and a good way to use that knowledge

Knowledge vs wisdom. Need this in our own homes. Is body of knowledge, put in practice, how do we model. To the smallest child.

[1] Fortescue, The Mass 2

[2] Ford 38

[3] Ford 65

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