Fundamental Principles Governing How Man Is To Worship God
Divine Liturgy (a definition) The glorification of God and the sanctification of man through Jesus Christ’s exercise of His priestly office. The Church’s definitive and public worship of God. Definition taken from Sacrosanctum Concilium No.7 Examples include: Holy Mass, Sacraments, and Breviary It is NOT “the work of the people”
Essential Liturgical Principles Theocentric Christocentric Pneumatological Ecclesiological Soteriological Eschatological Source and Summit of Life (all existence)
The Liturgy is Theocentric Always centered and 1) focused on God 2) Trinitarian 3) Divine, Sacred, & Holy 4) Truth, Goodness, and Beauty 5) Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi
The Liturgy is Christocentric 6) Incarnational 7) Sacramental 8) Revealed 9) Opus Dei (work of God) 10) Sacrificial
The Liturgy is Pneumatological 11) De Fide 12) First vertical, then horizontal 13) Transcends Time (Kairos vs. Chronus) 14) ‘Cosmic” – Nature and History 15) Stability through permanence 16) Grows Organically 17) Unity in Diversity
The Liturgy is Ecclesiological 18) Catholic 19) Of Tradition & Scripture 20) Served by the Magisterium 21) Guided by the Apostolic See 22) Hierarchical 23) actuosa participatio
The Liturgy is Soteriological Christ’s Redemptive Work Applied to Man 24) Salvation and Sanctification of Man 25) Living and the Dead 26) Adoration, Thanksgiving, Supplication, Atonement
The Liturgy is Eschatological 27) Spiritual Combat Detachment from world Penance for the flesh Resist & conquer the devil 28) Church Triumphant Angels Saints Mary 29) Heavenly Jerusalem 30) Man’s Final End - Source and Summit of Life
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