1. Sacramental Theology
April 30

2. Review of Last Week’s Class
The economy has passed into the liturgy
Economy
Kenosis
Epiclesis
Time
Koinonia
Synergy
Mystagogy
Energy
Doxology
Anaphora
Anamnesis
Agape

3. Review of Last Week’s Class
Creation
The Old Covenant
The Annunciation
The Baptism in the Jordan
Transfiguration
The Passion and Death
The Resurrection
The Ascension
Pentecost
Liturgy (the economy in history) and Divinization
Your questions

4. Part Two: The Liturgy Celebrated
Points of focus:
The individual sacraments
Their parts and elements
The internal dynamics
Other sacramental elements

5. Chapter 9: The Celebration as Epiphany of the Liturgy
Why celebrate the Liturgy when we can just pray privately or go to the Bible (or theology)?
The Liturgy is greater than the sum of its parts because it is God’s breaking in to history (kairos).
In the liturgy, Scripture comes to life.
Being in the Body of Christ (a community), means that we experience God communally.
“Those who claim to live by the risen Christ without the mediation of the ecclesial celebration are involved in a contradiction. How is it possible to live in common with the Lord while at the same time living in isolation and separation from Him?” (118, cf Heb. 10:23-27)

6. Ch. 9, Celebration, continued
Celebration as place
Every liturgy takes place in a particular setting (a liturgical tradition, specific community, etc.), but this setting should not mean a closing in on itself
Corbon lists eight elements of liturgy: (1) Word of God (2) Word of the Church (3) Assembly (4) Minister (5) Symbolic Actions (6) Time (7) Space (8) Song

7. The Eight elements The Word of God and the Word of the Church
Assembly and Minister (in order to highlight the given nature of the liturgy)
Symbol (not magical) and Song (emotive)
Space and time (which are expressed as transfigured

8. Chapter 9, continued Why do we have more than one sacrament?
One divine energy, but different ways that we receive it as finite creatures.
There are other signs, like the Bible and Sacred Images, the Lord’s day and other seasons.
Question: How can Christ be more or less present?
#1: It is as he willed it
#2: It humanizes Christ
#3: The pedagogical nature of the liturgy (Divine condescension)

9. Chapter 10, The outstreaming of the Liturgy
Less than ideal ways of looking at the liturgy
Cultural, either Platonic or Aristotelian
The cultural approach does not work so well because we should study the source, not the effects.
Another is cultic (a natural cult) and focuses on rules, means of grace and truths.
Another is omnisacramentalism (liturgical creativity)

10. Chapter 10 (cont.) How does the liturgy give us life?
Cabasillas, “The Sacraments are masterpieces of creation.”
The sacraments fulfill creation; Christ with and through creation.
The sober nature of sacramental signs is in keeping with divine kenosis.
Radical self-giving, spirit and bride, action, word and song.

11. Chapter 10 (cont.)
Different ways of finding meaning of our celebrations
Point oriented (step by step)
Linear (focus on central parts and work back)
Panoramic (relation of the sacrament to the mystery)
Epicletic

12. Chapter 11, The Eucharist The major subdivisions of the liturgy
Liturgy of the Word (proclamation)
Anaphora (Christ’s passover becomes real and operative)
Finale (sending forth to the liturgy of life)
Let’s take them one by one

13. Chapter 11 (cont.)
The Roman Rite: (Prayers at the Foot of the Altar) Introit [Greeting, Confiteor] Kyrie, Gloria, Collect
Byzantine Rite: Blessing, Litany, 3 Antiphons and Hymn to Incarnation, Thrice-Holy Hymn and associated Chants

14. Chapter 11 (cont.) The Anaphora: brings new time into existence
We remember what God has done and we trust in what He will do
In the West: Creed, [Petitions] Offertory, Secret, Preface, Sanctus, Epiclesis, Institution, Anamnesis, Epiclesis, Petitions, Doxology
In the East: Litanies, Cherubic Hymn, Great Entrance, Litany, Kiss of Peace, Creed, Preface, Sanctus, Institution, Epiclesis, Litanies

15. Chapter 11 (cont.) Communion: Koinonia with the Trinity
In the West: Our Father, Kiss of Peace, Agnus Dei, Ecce Agnus Dei, Communion
In the East: Our Father, Holy gifts to the Holy, Communion

16. Chapter 12, Other Sacraments
In every sacrament, there are three movements: (1) the Father gives, (2) The Word assumes Flesh (3) The Spirit brings us into communion
“Whereas in the Eucharist this love ‘is accomplished’ for the entire body, in the other sacraments it is given to individuals according to their needs.”
Epiclesis

17. Ch. 12 (cont.) Baptism is the epiclesis of new birth
What about confirmation? It strengthens us for mission
Anointing (epiclesis anticipates the resurrection)
Confession
Marriage (not a contract, a covenant)
Holy Orders (priesthood rooted in the kenosis of Christ)
Each sacrament is a mirror of the sacrament of sacraments (Liturgy of the Word, Anaphora, Communion)

18. Chapter 13, Celebration of Time
This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
God’s today touches every day.
The heart of the liturgical year is Easter (Holy Week)
Lent-Easter-Pentecost = anaphora
Advent-Christmas-Epiphany = Liturgy of the Word
The Weekly Rhythm
The prayer of the hours

19. Chapter 14, The space of Celebration
We seek a dwelling place
The creator sought a dwelling place and was not received in His creation
The church building itself is a place of the new creation breaking through
Christ is in the center
The altar as a sign of the empty tomb and place of encoutner
All of heaven and earth are mystically present in the building.

20. Next Week Part III: The Liturgy Lived
Two-page paper due on May 14: Choose a term from the vocabulary section of Corbon and explain its significance in relation to the Christian life.