How Christian Anthropology Shapes Catholic Worship (Season 4 Episode 6)

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We connect what we believe about the human person made in God’s image to what we do at the altar, from the Bible’s earliest sacrifices to the Eucharist. We push past ritual fights and “do-it-my-way” spirituality to recover worship as a real encounter with Christ that demands love of God and neighbor. 
• Christian anthropology as the foundation for worship and liturgy 
• worship as awe before the Creator and reserved to God alone 
• the human desire for transcendence and the temptation to worship created things 
• sacrifice as the thread from Eden through Cain and Abel to Abraham 
• God’s corrective guidance and progressive “plus one” teaching in salvation history 
• ritualism as ideology and the prophets’ call back to mercy 
• the law as a pedagogue leading to Christ and Christ as fulfillment 
• the Eucharist as participation in Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice 
• joining our lives to the offering and living as a steward through baptismal grace 
• communion as a communal reality that must spill into love of neighbor 
• avoiding legalism on one side and guideline-free worship on the other 
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