TITLES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 1.

Wisdom
Lord the Giver of Life 2. Understanding
- In the Nicene Creed 3. Counsel
4. Fortitude
Paraclete 5. Piety
- He who is called to help 6. Fear of God
7. Knowledge
SYMBOLS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. Water BIBLE’S FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
- Birth, purification, cleansing, life 1. Love
- Baptism 2. Patience
3. Joy
2. Anointing 4. Peace
- Oil, confirmation 5. Kindness
6. Generosity
3. Fire 7. Faithfulness
- Used in Moses’ encounter with God 8. Gentleness
- Transforming energy of the Holy Spirit 9. Self-control
actions
TRADITIONAL FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
4. Cloud and light 1. Joy
- Living and saving God 2. Charity
- The transcendence of His glory 3. Chastity
4. Modesty
5. Seal (sphragis) 5. Goodness
- In theological traditions 6. Humility(gentleness)
- Indelible character anointed in Baptism, 7. Fidelity (faithfulness)
Confirmation, and Holy Order 8. Continence (self control)
9. Peace
6. Hand 10. Patience
- Heals sick and blesses the children 11. Long-suffering
- Fundamental elements of its teaching 12. Kindness
*Gifts to be used to bear fruit
7. Finger
- Authority PROCESS OF DISCERNMENT
- Cast out demons 1. Prayer
2. Gathering Information
8. Dove - Careful gathering of adequate empirical
- Calm and peaceful data and the reasoned analysis
3. Seeking Confirmation
Pentecost - try out possible outcomes to various
- 50 days after Jesus’ resurrection possible decisions
4. Going back to prayer
*Gifts of the Holy Spirit cannot be removed but can
be weakened by sin PRAYER
- Entering a living relationship with God
GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - seeking God’s will, his providence and
- Makes us act according to God’s will mercy
- Listen closely to the Holy Spirit - centered on God
What prompts a person to pray? Kinds of Signs
- Because we are full of infinite longing and 1. Natural signs
God created us for himself - Come from nature
- We rely on him (mother Teresa) - Close relation from sign and the thing
signified (smoke-fire)
Learn from Jesus how to pray
- Entering into his boundless trust, joining in 2. Social/cultural/free signs
his prayer, led by him to the Father - Meaning is based on culture
- No universal value
Expressions of Prayer
1. Vocal prayer: 3. Personal signs
- Recitations - Based on personal interest
- Singing of songs - About how a person expresses one’s self to
others
2. Mental Prayer
- Meditation (active) 2-Fold function of signs
- Contemplation (passive) 1. Reveals hidden reality
2. Puts us in contact with that reality
3. Offering
4. Ask the Holy Spirit to help pray Symbols
- Specific materials that represent an invisible
Elements of Christian Prayer thing
1. Christ - “sumbaleon” (Greek): to throw together or
2. Trinitarian compare
3. Comes from the heart - Closer to thing signified compared to signs
- Less subjective
Levels of Prayer
1. Personal Prayer Kinds of Symbols
2. Communal/Liturgical Prayer 1. Liturgical Symbols
3. Worship - Visible objects that make a reality present
- Inner attitude of reverence (wine-blood of christ)
- Homage in outward expression
- You and God belong to one another ALL SYMBOLS ARE SIGNS, NOT ALL SIGNS ARE
SYMBOLS
Authentic worship (CFC 1497)
- Consists not in the word of the lips but the 2. Rituals
deeds of the heart - Actions and words
- Symbolic action (handshake, sign of the
Liturgy – “rubrics” cross)
- What the priests do around the - Secular and religious ceremonies
altar/ceremonial worship
- Official public worship of the Church SACRAMENTS
- Efficacious signs
- Signs of Jesus our God and savior
SIGNS and SYMBOLS - Within sacraments are symbols and rituals
Signs Rituals in the 7 Sacraments
- Precise physical reality objects that points to Baptism Pouring of water
another reality Confirmation Anointing with oil
 Reconciliatio Absolution - Declared ex cathedra: Mary was assumed
n body and soul to heavenly glory
Eucharist Consecrating bread and wine
Matrimony I do’s Mary, the greatest saint
Holy orders Laying of hands - Mary fully cooperated with our Lord’s work
Anointing of Anointing of oil of Salvation
the sick - Let jesus perform his first miracle: Wedding
at Cana
Sacramentals
- Objects, actions, practices place as signs and Titles for Mary
symbols of Christ’s grace 1. Our Lady
- Ex. 2. Advocate
Sprinkling of holy Prolonging baptism 3. Blessed Mother
water 4. Queen of Heaven and Earth
Benediction of the Prolonging the 5. Helper
blessed sacrament eucharist 6. Ever virgin
Blessing of Prolonging 7. Mother of God
establishments confirmation 8. Mother of the Church
9. Mediatrix
Popular Religiousity
- Over emphases on outward symbols and MARIAN DEVOTION IN THE LITURGY
expressions and faith - To commemorate her motherhood to Christ

Flagilation Important feasts

- Kneeling, bowing, wiping of images 1. Dec 8 – Immaculate Conception
- Candles, ashes, healing oils 2. Jan 1- Mary Mother of God
- Novenas, litany 3. March 25- Annunciation of the Lord
4. Aug 15 – Assumption
LEVELS OF VENERATION 5. Oct 7 – Our Lady of the Rosary
1. Dulia – honor and recognition to saints
2. Hyperdulia – honor to Mary, Mother of God HOLY ROSARY
3. Latria – true worship only given to God - Has roots in early Christian prayer traditions
- Repetitive structures and prayers
MARIAN DEVOTION AND PIETY - 3rd century Christian monks and hermits
Theotokus – Mother of God used stones and prayer ropes to keep track
- Solid basis for all Marian devotions when praying 150 psalms
- Not worship or adore but venerate her
Our Father
Immaculate Conception of Mary - Also prayed 150 times to using string of
- God preserved Mary from any inclination to beads with 5 decades: Paternoster (Latin of
sin Our Father)

Assumption of Mary Haily Mary

- Since Mary is preserved from sin, she would - Elizabeth’s words: “Blessed art thou
not experience death the way we do amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb”
*Pope Pius XII (1950) - St. Peter Canisius published the hail mary in
1555
Growth of Rosary
- Earliest form by Pope Gregory
- Earlier version of Hail Mary prayed on 4th
Sunday of Advent
- Term “rosary” was given in 1597

St. Dominic
- Combating Albigensianism (popular heresy
in France)
- Mary gave him the rosary to teach people
his devotion

St. Louis de Montfort

- Ordained priest in 1700
- Devotion to Mary and practice praying the
rosary

Apparitions of Mary where she asked to pray the

Rosary
1. Our Lady of Lourdes
2. Our Lady of Fatima

Battle of Lepanto
- Christian sailors joined Pope Pius V in
praying the rosary
- Defeated Turkish force in 1571

October as Rosary Month

- Month of the holy rosary
- Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Oct. 7