REVITALIZING CATHOLIC CULTURE AND IDENTITY

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REVITALIZING CATHOLIC CULTURE AND IDENTITY

• SYNOD 2009

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• Jesus has called us to follow Him to loved as he
  loved, to see things as he saw them, to share his
  worldview.

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• The incarnation is God plunging himself into our
  world, living life fully in the world.

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• While in the world Jesus used the ordinary things
  around him bread and wine.

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• He used ordinary wood to shed his blood in order
  to redeem us.

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• The Church continues this tradition and uses
  ordinary things to point us to Jesus.

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• Our world view dominates all our celebrations as
  we use the things that have been redeemed by
  Jesus.

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• Therefore our dances, fetes, Carnival
  celebrations are all part of our Catholic world
  view.
• How do we celebrate?

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• In our religious celebrations we must use the
  things that God has made and redeemed.

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• God said Be fruitful and multiply, fill the
  earth and conquer it. Be masters of the fish of
  the sea, the birds of heaven and all the living
  animals on the earth. (Genesis 128).

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• Saints Benedict and Francis of Assisi moulded the
  Churchs way of relating to nature. Nature has
  been redeemed and is therefore holy.

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• The priority of the celebration of the Eucharist
  on Sunday every Sunday is a solemnity, the
  highest level of celebration in the Church.

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• We are an Eucharistic people. This is Catholic
  culture and identity doing everything in memory
  of Jesus.