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Jonathan F. Sullivan
Director of Catechetical Services, Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
Originally from Kansas City
Married, 6 (+1) children
www.JonathanFSullivan.com
A few reminders…
This series will not just be “information delivery”
More personal, reflective
Opportunities to respond – so please participate!
Overview
10/13: Jesus
10/20: Scripture & Tradition
10/27: Christian Community
11/3: Liturgy & Prayer
11/10: Vocation & Mission
What is Prayer>
Our response to God’s self-revelation
Examples throughout Sacred Scripture
Forms of Prayer
Blessing & Adoration
Petition
Intercession
Thanksgiving
Praise
Expressions of Prayer
Vocal
Meditative
Contemplative
What forms or expressions of personal prayer have you found most engaging?
Which do you struggle with?
Prayer and Human
Development
How has your prayer life changed over time?
What is “Liturgy?”
Liturgia: “work of the people”
“[Participation in the liturgy] by the Christian people as ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people’, is their right and duty by reason of their baptism.” (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, no. 14)
Liturgy is…
Expression of Christian Community
Entrance into Paschal Mystery
Expressed in and guided by the Liturgical Year
AdventChristmas
Ordinary Time
Lent
Triduum
Easter
Ordinary Time
The Liturgical Year
Liturgy Devotion
Set order in a ritual book Local, cultural variations with no “official” text
Required for the People of God
Optional (although highly encouraged)
Self sufficient Extends liturgical life, doesn’t replace it
Mass, Liturgy of the Hours, Benediction,Rite of Marriage
Veneration of relics, pilgrimages, processions, Stations of the Cross, Rosary
Prayer & Liturgy in the
Life of a Disciple
Requires “Full, conscious, active participation”
Transforms us in Christ…
…so that we can transform the world.
Ritual, how could we do without it! Though it may seem to be gibberish and irreverence, though the Mass is offered up in such haste that the sacred sentence, ‘hoc est corpus meum’ was abbreviated into ‘hocus-pocus’… and has come down into our language meaning trickery, nevertheless there is a sureness and a conviction there. And just as the husband may embrace his wife casually as he leaves for work in the morning, and kiss her absent-mindedly in his comings and goings, still that kiss on occasion turns to rapture, a burning fire of tenderness and love. And with this to stay her she demands the ‘ritual’ of affection shown… We have too little ritual in our lives.
- Dorothy Day, The Long Lonliness
Prayer & Liturgy in the
Life of a Disciple
Requires “Full, conscious, active participation”
Transforms us in Christ…
…so that we can transform the world.
Q&A
bit.ly/BetterDiscipleVideo and slides available tomorrow at
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