beyond smells and bells: the wonder and power of christian liturg

8/6/2019 Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturg

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Facilitated by John Judge

Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church

Source: Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonder and

Power of Christian Liturgy by Mark Galli

Beyond Smells and Bells: The Wonderand Power of Christian Liturgy


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Week 1 Driving Questions

What is the basic outline of the liturgy?

How can the liturgical calendar bring order to our lives?

How does the liturgy draw us into community?


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Activator - Liturgy as Story

Discuss the idea of the liturgy as a story. The followingquestions might help.

What is the plot? Who are the characters?

Be ready to report... a summary of your basic answers

some of the questions that this activator might have raisedat your table


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Story with FourActs1. Gathering2.Word3.Sacrament4. Dismissal


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Gathering

Not just a way to get our attention We are gathering as one people and not a collection of

individuals Opening acclamation points to the climax of the story:

Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.And blessed be his kingdom, now and forever!


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Word

Public reading of the scriptureso Old Testament lessono Psalmo New Testament Epistle (letter)o Gospel

Three yearcycle - lectionaryo Revised Common Lectionary

http://www.io.com/~kellywp/lectionary.htmlo

Book of Common Prayer Lectionary

http://www.bcponline.org/Lectionary/Lect_Title.html Sermon Creed

o Story in three acts (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)


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Sacrament

Story is told in Eucharistic prayer Helps us remember our history and theology The moment when Christ becomes present to us in bread

and wine The climax of the Story!


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Dismissal

We pray that God would send us out to do the work he hasgiven us to doo To participate in God's mission


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The meaning of the whole creation and

the whole of human history is contained

here in ritual form and in the people who

enact the ritual. This action will cause the

Church to be: to do Eucharist is to be

Church. To be Church, to be assembledinto one, is what God intends for the

world. The Eucharist is celebrated in

thanksgiving and for the glory of God, and

it is done for the salvation of the whole

world.


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Story with FourActs1. Gathering2.Word3.Sacrament4. Dismissal


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How can the liturgical calendar bring order

to our lives?

"The church calendar aims at

nothing less than to change theway we experience time and

perceive reality."


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Activator

What is your favorite season in the liturgical calendar? Why?

What is your least favorite season in the liturgical calendar?Why?


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The Liturgical Year

"The church calendar is not about the cycle of lifeschool orsports or harvest timebut about the movement of history

toward a glorious goal."

1.Advent2. Christmas3. Epiphany4.Lent

5. Easter6. Pentecost


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"...while recognizing the supremacy of the liturgical

calendar, the church has never thought of forsaking thecosmic calendar, and in fact, uses the cosmic calendar as

the basis of the liturgical calendar."

Intersection of"cosmic" calendar with liturgical calendar"The liturgical calendar, therefore, causes us to think of

June 24 primarily as the Nativity of John the Baptist, not

the beginning of summer but a turning point in our year,

when we already begin to look forward to the coming ofJesus."


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"Cosmic time, which is determined by

the sun, becomes a representation ofhuman time and of historical time,

which moves toward union of God and

the world, of history and the universe,

of matter and spiritin a word, towardthe New City whose light is God

himself. Thus time becomes eternity,

and eternity is imparted to time."


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How does the liturgy draw us into

community?

"Much of American spiritual life trudges through themuck of solitary spirituality."


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Activator

Many people find liturgical services formal, impersonal - the lastthing that would seem to move one into community.

Why does attending liturgical worship leave people with this

impression? What could liturgical churches do to help change this?


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Community and the Holy Trinity

"[The words of the liturgy] take us into a strange world,

one that is not about the self, which so easily becomes

banal, but about a glorious God. Not about a solitary,

dispassionate God who lives in peaceful isolation withinhis own perfections, but a God who from eternity has

lived in community as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."


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We vs Me

Use we/us contrasted with I/me Community and the daily office


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"The gift of the liturgyand it is preciselywhy I need the liturgyis that it helps me

hear not so much my little voice but

instead the still, small voice (Psalm 46). It

leads away from the self and points metoward the community of God."

Written prayers vs. spontaneously

offered prayers


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"The liturgy is a story we participate in.

Part of that story is the story of

communitycreated, broken, and

restored."


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