The Grace that flows
from the Liturgy.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 169
Ave Maria series
169 What happens to us when we celebrate the
liturgy?
When we celebrate the liturgy,
we are drawn into the love of God, healed and transformed. [1076]
August
15 outdoor Mass of the Assumption at the National Champion Shrine of Our Lady
of Good Help. .....169
The sole purpose of all liturgies of the Church and all her
sacraments is that we might have life and have it abundantly. When we celebrate the liturgy, we encounter
the One who said about himself, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Someone who is forsaken
and goes to Mass receives protection and consolation from God. Someone who feels lost and goes to Mass finds
a God who is waiting for him.
While he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had
compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. Luke 15:20
[1076]
Section One
THE SACRAMENTAL ECONOMY
1076 The Church was made manifest to the world on the day of
Pentecost by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.( compare Sacrosanctum
concilium 6; Lumen gentium 2)1 The gift of the Spirit ushers in a new era in
the "dispensation of the mystery" the age of the Church, during which
Christ manifests, makes present, and communicates his work of salvation through
the liturgy of his Church, "until he comes."( 1Corinthians 11:26)2 In this age of the Church,
Christ now lives and acts in and with his Church, in a new way appropriate to
this new age. He acts through the sacraments in what the common Tradition of
the East and the West calls "the sacramental economy"; this is the
communication (or "dispensation") of the fruits of Christ's Paschal
mystery in the celebration of the Church's "sacramental" liturgy.
It is therefore important first to explain
this "sacramental dispensation" (chapter one). The nature and essential features of liturgical celebration
will then appear more clearly (chapter two). –Catechism of the
Catholic Church, Second Edition
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