Liturgical Worship. (Part One).

All Illustrations previously published on Zephyrinus’ Blog.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

“When you Pray, say: Father”. This is the name that from all eternity God the Son gives to His Father, the name that Our Lord invariably pronounced with respect and love, the name He silently repeats in The Blessed Sacrament, and that we find constantly on the lips of His Bride, The Church.

“You have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba (Father)”. The Holy Ghost, as it were, flows forth from the Word in the sacred humanity of Christ and in The Church, bearing us all to The Father on the waves of His Divine Love.

This fount of living water, which springs up in our hearts unto life eternal, is doubtless the private Prayer with which The Holy Ghost may inspire us, and in which we are led by Him to have recourse to God as children to their Father, but the principal and official Prayer whereby The Holy Ghost inspires His Church is that which we call the Liturgy.

In this Prayer, all members of Christ’s mystical body bear an authentic part in that infinite Worship of Adoration that its Head ceaselessly renders to God: “Always living to make intercession for us”, as the Apostle tells us.

Thus the word of The Master is realised: “The hour cometh when the true adorers shall Adore The Father in spirit and in truth”, which Saint Anselm explains as meaning that they will render a filial Worship to God in The Holy Ghost and in union with Christ The Son of God.

PART TWO FOLLOWS.