Practices and Rituals

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Practices and Rituals

• Worship
• Sunday
• Church

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Practices and Rituals

• Eucharist
• Commemoration of Last Supper
• Once/week once/year

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The Eucharist

• Catholic Transubstantiation
• vs
• Protestant Consubstantiation

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Practices and Rituals

• Prayers
• Hymns
• Readings from scripture
• Sermon

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Practices and Rituals

• Liturgy
• Liturgy of the Word
• Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Liturgical vs non-liturgical services

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Practices and Rituals

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

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Practices and Rituals

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

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Holy Days/Periods - Easter

• Lent/Easter
• Remembers the passion and celebrates the
  resurrection of Jesus

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Holy Days/Periods - Easter

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

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Holy Days/Periods - Easter

• Good Friday day of Jesus death (March 29,
  2013)
• Easter Sunday March 31, 2013

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Holy Days/Periods - Easter

• 40 days after Easter Feast of Ascension (May 9,
  2013)
• 50 days after Easter Pentecost (May 19, 2013)

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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).

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Holy Days/Periods - Christmas

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

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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