Religious Education Curriculum Directory (3-19) - The Catholic ...

Religious Education Curriculum DirectoryAREA OF STUDY 3 CELEBRATION: SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUMWithin this Area of Study pupils are guided through a continually enriching celebration of themystery of God in liturgy and prayer and come to understand the sacraments as privileged encounterswith Jesus Christ.3.1 LITURGYTeaching and learning strategies celebrate, reveal and communicate the one divine blessing whichis God’s work of salvation. This is the source and sign of the communion between God and humanityin Christ through the Holy Spirit. It is a progression of the work of the Father in Christ and by thepower of the Spirit, in, with and through the Church. The gift of salvation is celebrated in the seasonsand feasts of the Church’s year. Liturgy shapes prayer and worship to enable all pupils to have aconscious, active, meaningful and fruitful participation.3.1.1. What is liturgy? (1066-1074)A Prefigured in the Old Testament (1067)a Meaning (1069-1070)b Source of Life (1071-1072)c Liturgy as prayer (1073)3.1.2. God’s plan of blessing (1077-1109)A God the Father is the source and goal (1077-1083)B Christ glorified in the liturgy (1084-1090)Ca The Apostolic Church (1086-1087)b The Church on Earth (1088-1089)c The Heavenly Liturgy (1090)The Holy Spirit (1091-1109)a Prepares for Christb Recalls Christc Makes present Christ3.2. SACRAMENTSPupils are taught that the whole liturgical life of the Church has the Eucharistic sacrifice at its core,together with the sacraments. The sacraments give and celebrate the life of God’s grace in us.Through the words and actions of the sacraments, Christ communicates the grace each sacramentsignifies. Sacramental celebrations are woven from signs and symbols which are drawn from bothmaterial creation and human culture. Through the Church’s liturgy they receive a new prominenceand become signs of grace of the new creation in Jesus Christ. Pupils will be taught that the sevensacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of our Christian life.3.2.1. The Paschal Mystery and the SacramentalNature of the Church (1113-1116)A The Church and the sacramental economy of salvation(849)a Jesus Christ is the living, ever-present sacra-ment of God (1088-1090)b The Church as universal sacrament of JesusChrist (774-776)i The Church is the sacrament of salvation, thesign and the instrument of the communion ofGod and all (780)ii The Church has a sacramental view of all re-ality (739)iii The Church is the sacrament of the Trinity’scommunion with us (774)3.2.2. Who celebrates? (1136-1144)A Liturgy is the action of the ‘whole Christ’ (totusChristus)a The heavenly liturgyb The sacramental liturgy3.2.3. Signs and symbols (1145-1152)A Signs of the covenant (1150)B Signs taken up by Christ (1151)C Sacramental signs (1152)D Words, actions, singing, music and images (1153-32