R.C.I.A.

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R.C.I.A.

• Saint Mary Our Lady of Grace
• April 21st
• Melissa Hendrick

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Prayer Rock

• Im your little prayer rock and this is what Ill
  do. Just put me on your pillow till the day is
  through. Then turn back the covers and climb
  into bed, and whack! Your little prayer rock
  will hit you in the head. Then you will remember
  as the day is through, to kneel and say your
  prayers as you wanted to.

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• Then when you are finished just dump me on the
  floor. Ill stay the night to give you help once
  more. And when you get up the next morningClunk!
  Ill stub your toe. So you will remember your
  morning prayers right before you go.
• Put me back upon your pillow when your bed is
  made and your clever little prayer rock will
  continue your aid. Because your heavenly Father
  cares and loves you so, He wants you to remember
  to talk to Him you know.

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Jesus is in love with us

• How does it make you feel to know that someone of
  a higher being with power so great such as Jesus
  is in love with you?
• Knowing what you know about those who are in love
  with others what does that say about how is going
  to treat you, take care of you, and handle your
  needs?

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Daily Reflections

• Reflections Link
• Reflect on how this may impact
• your daily life.

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Sacraments of Initiation

• This is the Lamb of God, proclaims the priest,
  as the holds up the consecrated host. Lord I am
  not worthy, responds the congregation, as they
  prepare to receive Jesus in Holy Communion.
• A notable feature of Catholicism is our belief in
  sacraments, physical signs in which point to
  spiritual realities. Jesus taught that God
  touches us through created things. Faith opens
  our eyes to see Christ and to meet him in the
  sacraments and liturgy of the Church.

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God the Father, God the Son

• God the father is the source of all blessings
  granted in the liturgy. These include everything
  God has said and done for us, from creation,
  through the Old Testament, to the salvation
  granted in Christ.
• God the Son, is not limited by time or space, nor
  is the paschal mystery of his passion. He speaks
  through scripture and acts through the
  sacraments.

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God the Holy Spirit

• God enables us to receive Christs life in the
  liturgy in four special ways. First, the spirit
  prepares us to receive Christ by recalling the
  attitudes of those who waited for the Savior.
• Second, the Spirit calls to mind what Christ has
  done for us.
• Third, the Spirit empowers us to participate in
  Christs paschal mystery.
• Fourth, the Spirit unites us to Christ and to one
  another.

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The Seven Sacraments

• The Church calls us to recognize seven sacraments
  instituted by Christ Baptism, Confirmation,
  Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy
  Orders, and Matrimony.
• Christ sent his apostles to evangelize so that
  people might be baptized and receive the
  sacraments. Christ acts through the sacraments
  so they can confer the grace they signify.

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Baptism

• Baptism is our entry into Christian life. Baptism
  comes form the Greek word baptisein, meaning to
  immerse or to plunge into water. It
  symbolizes our participation in Christs death
  and Resurrection. Being immersed or washed in
  water signifies the removal (the death) of sin.
  Rising from the water symbolizes our rising to
  the new life of grace. Baptism is foreshadowed
  in the Old Testament.

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Foreshadowing of Baptism

• Noahs ark saved humanity and brought a new
  beginning, as does Baptism. The Exodus and
  crossing of the Red Sea liberated the Israelites
  from slavery, as Baptism liberates us from sin.
  The crossing of the Jordan symbolizes our entry
  through Baptism into the Promised Land of heaven.
• The water and blood flowing from His side as He
  died on the cross are signs of Baptism and the
  Eucharist.

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Baptism Link

• Think about those Baptisms you may have
  witnessed in your lifetime.
• What made it special?
• Why are there so many rituals when it comes to
  celebrating a sacrament?

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Confirmation

• When two or three meet in my name, I shall be
  there with them.
• Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and when
  he was baptized by John, the Spirit descended
  upon him.
• Christ gave the Holy Spirit to his followers on
  Easter and at Pentecost.

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Anointing with Chrism

• Anointing with chrism at Confirmation signifies
  consecration to the mission of Christ and the
  Spirits strength given for this mission.
  Confirmation is a seal that marks us as belonging
  to Christ as he belonged to the Father.
• Confirmation brings the full outpouring of the
  Holy Spirit as at Pentecost. It increases
  baptismal grace, joins us more closely to God and
  the Church, augments the gifts of the Spirit, and
  strengthens us to spread and defend the faith.

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Eucharist

• The Eucharist completes Christian initiation and
  is the source and summit of Christian life, for
  the sacrament is Christ.
• In the Eucharist, bread and wine become Christs
  body and blood.
• The Church sees the Eucharist prefigured in
  Melchizedeks offering of bread and wine.
  (Genesis 1418)

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Old Covenant Foreshadowing's

• Sacrificial offerings of bread and wine
• Manna in the desert
• Passover meals unleavened bread and cup of
  blessing
• Jesus prefigured the Eucharist when he multiplied
  food for hungry crowds and announced it at
  Capernaum

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Thanksgiving and Praise

• The Eucharist is Thanksgiving and Praise
• The Eucharist is a sacrificial memorial. At mass
  we remember and proclaim Christs sacrificial
  death and glorious Resurrection.
• We worship the Eucharistic Christ in many ways
  genuflecting and bowing, adoring Jesus at mass
  and outside Mass, exposing the host for
  veneration, and carrying it in procession.

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Eucharist Link

• Please take a moment to reflect on the previous
  presentation on the Eucharist.

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To Christ Our Only Teacher

• Thank you, Jesus, for bringing me this far.
  In your light I see the light of my life. Your
  teaching is brief and to the point You persuade
  us to trust in our heavenly father you command
  us to love one another. What is easier than to
  believe in God? What is sweeter than to love
  him? Your yoke is pleasant, your burden is
  light, you, the one and only Teacher! You
  promise everything to those who obey your
  teaching you ask nothing too heard for a
  believer, nothing a lover can refuse. Your
  promises to your disciples are true, entirely
  true, nothing but the truth. Even more, you
  promise us yourself, the perfection of all that
  can be made perfect. Thank you, Jesus now and
  always. Amen.

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