180 The Saints Have Suffered and Have Been Glorified With Christ - part 8

YOUCAT Lesson 180, part 8 of 11 parts

YOUCAT the catechism for Catholic youth

180  Why is the Mass sometimes referred to as a “worship service”?

A worship service is in the first place a service that God performs for us—and only then is it our service offered to God.  God gives himself to us under the form of holy signs—so that we might do the same: give ourselves unreservedly to him.  [1145-1192]

…….Painting above: ….. The Stoning of Saint Stephen, altarpiece of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, by Jacopo & Domenico Tintoretto…..  The Church proposes to the faithful as examples those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ.” …..180

…….The following numbered paragraphs are from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), Second Edition, and give deeper understanding to YOUCAT Lesson 180:

…….WHEN IS THE LITURGY CELEBRATED?

The sanctoral in the liturgical year

…….1172   "In celebrating this annual cycle of the mysteries of Christ, Holy Church honors the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, with a special love. She is inseparably linked with the saving work of her Son. In her the Church admires and exalts the most excellent fruit of redemption and joyfully contemplates, as in a faultless image, that which she herself desires and hopes wholly to be." (Sacrosanctum concilium 103) ^{44 –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition}

…….1173 When the Church keeps the memorials of martyrs and other saints during the annual cycle, she proclaims the Paschal mystery in those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ. She proposes them to the faithful as examples who draw all men to the Father through Christ, and through their merits she begs for God's favors." (Sacrosanctum concilium 104; cf. SC 108,111) ⁴⁵  CCC