Lizzie Harrison Aims of the Workshop Simple steps to develop any liturgy Elements of ritual Setting up sacred spaces Resources for Lent Why Liturgy Encounter God Joy of the Gospel Creative meaningful ID: 333045
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School Liturgy in Lent
Lizzie HarrisonSlide2
Aims of the Workshop
Simple steps to develop any liturgy
Elements of ritual
Setting up sacred
spaces
Resources for
LentSlide3
Why Liturgy
Encounter God
Joy of the Gospel
Creative, meaningful
and life-giving
Only experience of Church? Slide4
A Personal Symbol
What gives our life meaning?Slide5
Symbols
A
symbol
is an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, visual image, belief, action, or material entity.
Symbols
take the form of words, sounds, gestures, or visual images and are used to convey ideas and beliefs.
Symbols
are at the heart of creative Liturgy........Slide6
Symbols
In
sacraments,
symbols can bring about a Change in a person and reveal a deeper reality
Symbols used in sacraments
Water in Baptism:
Symbolises new life in Christ:
Symbolic actions and words transform the person making them a Christian.
Anointing
with oil in Confirmation:
Symbol of strength hope to strengthen participant in wisdom, courage and understanding.
Receive the gift of the Holy SpiritSlide7
Useful symbols
Some symbols are useful in many liturgiesSlide8
Examples of symbols in use
November
: Daffodil bulbs planted in November will grow in the spring and remind students that death is not the end. It is reflected in our seasons.
Wailing Wall
. A giant poster of a wall can be made along the idea of the wall in Jerusalem with painted bricks and the prayers of a school community can be placed on it with sticky notes over the week coming up to a special mass and used as Prayers of the Faithful.Slide9
Ritual
“There is no more important pastoral issue facing the Catholic Church in Ireland and internationally than the renewal of its ritual life”
From
Passage
to
Pasch
by
Michael
Drumm
(Columba Press, 1998)
Do you agree?Slide10
Why Ritual?
“Ritual is vital to the well being of the individual and society. Without Ritual I go nowhere, I see nothing new and I do it alone. The church community which is bold enough to visit the edge may have to experience the darkness of disorientation or confusion of losing established patterns of understanding and doing but it will open itself up to the possibility of true community and closer
relationships…”
From
A
Sacramental
P
eople
by Michael
Drumm
&
Tom GunningSlide11
Why Ritual?
Encounter with Christ
Pre-Evangelisation/ Evangelisation
Develop a relationship with God
Community (communitas)
Give life meaning
Language to express the
inexpressible/the
liminal
Make sense of key transitions in life - pregnancy, birth, adolescence, betrothal, marriage, death.
–
through
the
SacramentsSlide12
Pope Francis
(
Evangelii
Nuntandi
)
“I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each
day…”
“A
Church that evangelizes must always start from prayer, from asking, like the Apostles in the Upper Room, for the fire of the Holy Spirit. Only a faithful and intense relationship with God allows us to leave our enclosures and announce the Gospel with
parrhesia
(
the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk
). Without prayer our actions become empty and our proclamation soulless, it is not animated by the
Spirit”
“To
evangelize, then, we must be open to the action of the Spirit of God, without fear of what He asks us or where He leads us. Let us entrust ourselves to Him! He enables us to live and bear witness to our faith, and enlighten the hearts of those we
meet”Slide13
Stages of Ritual?
Books referenced to explain Ritual
A
Sacramental
People,
Michael
Drumm
& Tom Gunning
Passage
to
Pasch,
Michael
Drumm
Arnold Van
Gennep/Victor Turner – AnthropologistsThree stages of ritual
Van Gennep
TurnerSimplifiedSeparationSeparationWelcomeTransitionLiminalityMeaningIncorporationReaggregationBlessingSlide14
Separation – Essential Phase!
“One cannot experience what happens at the threshold unless one first separates from the familiar”
A
Sacramental
PeopleSlide15
Transition & Meaning
Phase
This
is w
here
change
occurs;
w
here
awe and mystery are encounteredSlide16
Incorporation: strengthened by the transitional phase
and
return
ing to the familiar
Blessing
“Go
in peace to love and serve the
Lord”Slide17
Tips for Liturgy with young people
Get
the threshold experience/separation from the
familiar
right
!
Preparation and participation
Suitable
music –
highlights the celebration dimension, must be relevant
Involvement – do
students
have a role? Are they welcomed and valued in our liturgies?
Pray in their own wordsTheme – meaningful
to and is chosen by the students Drama/Dance/Mime etc. – step into another’s shoes and challenges prejudicesSend them away with something e.g. Feather, piece of scriptureSlide18
Remember!
“We do not bring God to the young people we work with. This would be a very condescending attitude. God is already there. What we do is create atmospheres and opportunities where young people can encounter and listen to the God that is already within them. What a privilege that is. We cannot take responsibility for what happens once we create this atmosphere. God works his magic. ‘We just turn up and let God show off.’ God works not just because of us but sometimes in spite of us.”
L. HarrisonSlide19
Thank You