Commission for Liturgy

The Liturgy is the public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the Church renders to the Father as well as the worship which the community of the faithful renders to its Founder, and through Him to the heavenly Father. It is the submit towards which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her powers flow. All who are made sons of God by faith and baptism should then come together to praise God in the midst of His Church, to take part in the sacrifice and to eat the Lord’s Supper.

The Liturgy communicates a most profound reality: who God is and who we are before God. The celebration of the Eucharist is the Catholic Church’s fullest and deepest statement of faith. At the Eucharist, God’s people come together to hear the word of the Lord, to pray for the world’s needs, to praise God and give thanks for His creative and saving works, to receive Christ Jesus in communion and then to be sent forth in the spirit as Apostles of the Gospel. Therefore each parish, each community, each diocese and the universal church must be Christ the redeemer present and active in the world. We his members must be one with Him as he reaches out to all men.