What are the rituals of Catholic Church?

Answer 1

CatholicsOrdinary time

Advent-preparing for Christ Birth

there are four candles and each candle is lit on every Sunday of advent. 4 weeks of advent.

Christmas-B-day of Jesus

Ash Wednesday- catholics receive ashes from burned palms left over from Palm Sunday, smeared in the sign of the cross on their foreheads. It is encouraged to attend mass in the morning before work, or school and go though the day without washing off the markings..intriguing others, thus sharing the word of God.

Lent- time of sacraifice to make time for prayer.

Catholics give up something for God and Jesus Christ. desserts, computer, movies. You are saying to God I love you sooo much i will sacrafice something i want for you. also eating smaller meals and fasting are common ways to allow time for mediation and prayer.

Holy Thursday-remembrance of The First Mass and the First Eucharist, the Last Supper.

And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke and gave to his disciples and said, Take ye and eat, This IS my body. And taking the chalice, he gave thanks and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of this for this IS MY BLOOD of the New Testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins. Matthew 26, 26-28.

At Communion, Catholics believe that they truly are receiving Jesus, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.

Holy Thursday is a remembrance of the first Mass and First Eucharist, the Last Supper.

Good Friday-Jesus dies on the cross

This is where Baptist, Methodist, Catholics and all other Christains. Share the common bond. We all belive that Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins and he is the Son of God.

Easter- Jesus rose from the dead. Matthew 28, 1-10.

Ascension - Jesus leaves the Apostles, the first Bishops, instructions and then goes to heaven to be with his Father,God, Matthew 28, 18-20.

AnswerTotal submission to the decree of the Pope.

TRADITIONS or RITES of the CATHOLIC CHURCH

There are 23 rites or traditions within the Catholic Church worldwide. One Western, and twenty-two Eastern.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church never calls itself the "Roman Catholic Church", that is something that the English started after the protestant revolt. The primary and most important ritual for Catholics is the Mass, the Eucharist, it is from this that all the rest depend, see below for the different ways in which the word "ritual" is used in the Catholic Church. Baptism,confession, first communion, confirmation, marriage,the last rites, becoming a priest or nun

Always attending Easter mass (church) SayingThe Apostles creed

obeying the 10 commandments

during Mass, listening to the Gospel and the priest, receiving communion, saying the Our Father, genuflecting, genuflecting before you step into the pew, genufleciting when you are at the front of the altar by the Host, or in front of the altar.

Try just going to a Mass and watch, you do not have to interact, you can just sit there, or just get up and down and kneel like everyone else does to get the feel of it.

If you are not a Catholic and sit during the mass the others know you are not atholic and will accept it.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980 {| style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px" |- style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px" | style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px" | Ritual. The prescribed words and ceremonies for a religious service. Refers also to the book that contains these prescriptions. In the Catholic Church these books are distinguished according to different offices, e.g., for bishops, and for different ceremonies, e.g., ordination. Ritual also means the whole body of sacred rites in use in the Church. |}

Answer 3

There are several traditions that are practiced within Catholicism. Specifically, they practice the sacraments, encourage the belief in the sacredness of relics, and heavily rely on the use of symbolism within their religious practice.

Answer 4

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The central practice of Catholicism is the Mass which revolves around the Consecration when the bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ. The Mass is the re-presentation of Our Blessed Lord's sacrifice of Himself on the Cross, and the application of its graces and benefits to those attending it worthily.

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In Catholicism we believe that Jesus Christ our savior was born to the virgin Mary. We believe that he died on the cross, and rose from the dead on Easter. We believe in one god that is divided into 3 parts. The Father, the god almighty, The Son, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit, the life of god. What separates Catholics from other Christians is our belief that the Eucharist is really Jesus's body and blood, and not just something we eat to commemorate him. We believe in the stories of the Jewish bible, though we do not follow their traditions. And we believe that if you except Jesus as your savior you will be saved and freed of any sins that you are truly sorry for, and you will be excepted into heaven.

Answer 5

Roman Catholic AnswerSacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, then are bound closely together and communicate one with the other.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

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"Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit." (Dei Verbum9)

"And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound, and spread it abroad by their preaching." (Dei Verbum 9)

Answer 6

Catholic AnswerTradition (with a capital T) is all that Our Blessed Lord has revealed to His Church through the Old Testament and His teaching given to us through His Apostles. The "Deposit of Tradition" ended with the death of the last Apostle, and the Church is not capable of adding, subtracting, or changing one small thing from this Tradition. Some of that Tradition was written down in the books that came to form the New Testament. The Church drew these together in the late fourth century, and decided which ones were from the Sacred Tradition and which were not. Those that were form the New Testament. Tradition is everything that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ taught us and the Magisterium of the Church has carefully preserved and defended against one and all for 2000 years now.

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A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

Tradition: The sum of revealed doctrine which has not been committed to sacred Scripture (though it may have appeared in uninspired writing) but which has been handed down by a series of legitimate shepherds of the Church from age to age. As revelation is must have come to the Apostles directly from the lips of Christ or been handed down by the Apostles at the dictation of the Holy Ghost. More broadly the term is used for the sum of doctrine revealed either in Scripture or by word of mouth: so in 2 Thess. ii, 14: "Hold by the traditions you have learned, in word or in writing, from us."

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 199481 "Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit." (Dei Verbum 9)

"And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound, and spread it aboard by their preaching.

Answer 7

Catholic AnswerSacred Tradition (as opposed to the traditions of men, which Our Blessed Lord condemned) is literally the "handing on" or passing down of God's revealed word, it means first of all Divine Revelation as passed on to each generation in the Church.

from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

Tradition: The sum of revealed doctrine which has not been committed to sacred Scripture (though it may have appeared in uninspired writing) but which has been handed down by a series of legitimate shepherds of the Church from age to age. As revelation is must have come to the Apostles directly from the lips of Christ or been handed down by the Apostles at the dictation of the Holy Ghost. More broadly the term is used for the sum of doctrine revealed either in Scripture or by word of mouth: so in 2 Thess. ii, 14: "Hold by the traditions you have learned, in word or in writing, from us." from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

81 "Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit." (Dei Verbum 9) "And [Holy] Tradition transmits in its entirety the Word of God which has been entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. It transmits it to the successors of the apostles so that, enlightened by the Spirit of truth, they may faithfully preserve, expound, and spread it aboard by their preaching.

Answer 8

Lighting candles is one of the rituals of the Catholic Church. Other rituals include baptism, first holy communion, confirmation, and confession.

Answer 9

The Tridentine Mass is an old ritual of the Catholic Church.