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Title: Practices and Rituals


1
Practices and Rituals
  • Worship
  • Sunday
  • Church

2
Practices and Rituals
  • Eucharist
  • Commemoration of Last Supper
  • Once/week once/year

3
The Eucharist
  • Catholic Transubstantiation
  • vs
  • Protestant Consubstantiation

4
Practices and Rituals
  • Prayers
  • Hymns
  • Readings from scripture
  • Sermon

5
Practices and Rituals
  • Liturgy
  • Liturgy of the Word
  • Liturgy of the Eucharist
  • Liturgical vs non-liturgical services

6
Practices and Rituals
  • Sacraments
  • Catholics
  • Eucharist and Baptism, Confession, Confirmation,
    Ordination of clergy, Last Rites, and Marriage

7
Practices and Rituals
  • Sacraments
  • Protestants
  • Eucharist and Baptism
  • Protestants practice the others
  • Baptism is the most common ritual marking ones
    conversion into Christianity

8
Holy Days/Periods - Easter
  • Lent/Easter
  • Remembers the passion and celebrates the
    resurrection of Jesus

9
Holy Days/Periods - Easter
  • Lent 6 week period preceding Easter
  • Ash Wednesday first day of Lent (February 23,
    2013)
  • Period of self-denial, fasting

10
Holy Days/Periods - Easter
  • Good Friday day of Jesus death (March 29,
    2013)
  • Easter Sunday March 31, 2013

11
Holy Days/Periods - Easter
  • 40 days after Easter Feast of Ascension (May 9,
    2013)
  • 50 days after Easter Pentecost (May 19, 2013)

12
Holy Days/Periods - Christmas
  • Advent
  • Preparing for the Birth of Jesus
  • Focus on Scriptures Christians believe predicted
    Jesus arrival
  • 4 preceding Sundays (next one starts Dec 2, 2012).

13
Holy Days/Periods - Christmas
  • Christmas -- Dec 25 (Eastern Orthodoxy, Jan 7).
  • not his birthday!
  • Feast of Saturnalia / Sol Invictus

14
Holy Days/Periods - Christmas
  • Feast of Epiphany (Jan 6, 2011)
  • In the West, ends the Christmas season (12 days
    of Christmas)
  • In the East, celebrates the Baptism of Jesus
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