{"id":3194,"date":"2015-10-04T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2015-10-03T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:18:54","slug":"the-divine-liturgy-and-our-worship-of-god-20151004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"The Divine Liturgy and Our Worship of God — 20151004"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mystical Supper<\/p><\/div>\n

As I indicated in the last issue of this article, Anamnesis<\/em> is a central notion in our Liturgy. Liturgical remembrance of God\u2019s action on behalf of and in relationship with humankind in history is both a\u00a0starting point for\u00a0worship <\/em>and flows<\/em>\u00a0from worship.<\/em> Therefore, worship is intrinsically linked with anamnesis<\/em> (\u1f00\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2). <\/em>This Greek noun, <\/em>in its \u00a0New Testament context, is commonly translated in English as remembrance or commemoration.\u00a0One author contends that Christian worship is fundamentally an anamnesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It must be pointed out, however, that it is an active remembrance<\/em> of the paschal mystery – of our salvation through Christ\u2019s death and His holy resurrection. Christian worship is fundamentally anamnetic<\/em>, that is it is an act in which the present is brought into intimate contact with the past<\/em> and vice-versa. This particular description of anamnesis<\/em> is more akin to\u00a0actualizing remembrance <\/em>than merely active remembrance. <\/em><\/p>\n

To understand this concept of actualizing remembrance<\/em>, we need to know something about the actual development of the Christian notion. This notion is meant to move worshipers beyond liturgy, so that liturgy has an effect on society in which it is set.<\/p>\n

The semantic range of the term anamnesis <\/em>in Greek is wide and has undergone historical evolution in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 meaning. For instance, in the Attic Greek of Plato,\u00a0\u1f00\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was used as an equivalent to recollection. In Plato\u2019s\u00a0Meno<\/em>, Socrates argues that one either has in mind a prior concept of a subject or one has no prior notion of the subject. No learning takes place without\u00a0prior<\/em>\u00a0anamnesis<\/em> of a subject.<\/p>\n

Plotinus, a contemporary of early-Christians, developed Plato\u2019s doctrine of anamnesis<\/em> further. Plotinus held that anamnesis<\/em> must derive from intelligible matter, from something experienced.<\/p>\n

None of these historical examples of the evolution of the meaning of anamnesis<\/em> correspond fully with the Christian usage of this term or its significance for Christian worship, although the French postmodern literary notion of anamnesis<\/em> correlates most closely with the Christian sense of remembrance that brings past action into the present.<\/p>\n

All this will become clear as we continue to think about this idea the Liturgy as Anamnesis.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I indicated in the last issue of this article, Anamnesis is a central notion in our Liturgy. Liturgical remembrance of God\u2019s action on behalf of and in relationship with humankind in history is both a\u00a0starting point for\u00a0worship and flows\u00a0from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-liturgy","category-learning-about-the-practices-of-our-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}