sense of the sacred: De Publicatione Festorum Mobilium in Epiphania Domini

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

De Publicatione Festorum Mobilium in Epiphania Domini

Know ye, beloved brethren, that as by God's favor we rejoiced in the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, so, too, we announce to you the glad tidings on the Resurrection of our Savior.

The Sunday of Septuagesima will fall on the 31st of January.

Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the most holy Lenten fast on the 17th of February.

On the 4th of April you shall celebrate with greatest joy

the holy Pasch of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ will occur on the 13th of May.

The Feast of Pentecost on the 23rd of May.

The Feast of Corpus Christi on the 3rd of June.

November 28 will usher in the Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ,

to Whom be glory and honor eternally. Amen.

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We ought to get back the dimension of the sacred in the liturgy. The liturgy is not a festivity; it is not a meeting for the purpose of having a good time. It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties. The liturgy is what makes the Thrice-Holy God present amongst us; it is the burning bush; it is the Alliance of God with man in Jesus Christ, who has died and risen again. The grandeur of the liturgy does not rest upon the fact that it offers an interesting entertainment, but in rendering tangible the Totally Other, whom we are not capable of summoning. He comes because He wills. In other words, the essential in the liturgy is the mystery, which is realized in the common ritual of the Church; all the rest diminishes it. Men experiment with it in lively fashion, and find themselves deceived, when the mystery is transformed into distraction, when the chief actor in the liturgy is not the Living God but the priest or the liturgical director. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Chile, 1988)

Do we still need sacred space, sacred time, mediating symbols? Yes, we do need them, precisely so that, through the "image," through the sign, we learn to see the openness of heaven. We need them to give us the capacity to know the mystery of God in the pierced heart of the Crucified. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Spirit of the Liturgy )