Participatio actuosa
Participatio actuosa ( Latin for "active participation") is one of the basic principles of the Catholic liturgical movement of the 20th century and the liturgical reform in the wake of the Second Vatican Council . The phrase (Italian Partecipazione attiva ) goes back to the Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini Pope Pius X of November 22, 1903:
“Since it is Our greatest desire that the truly Christian spirit flourish in all respects and be preserved in all believers, we must first of all care for the holiness and dignity of the house of God; for there the faithful gather to draw this spirit from its first and indispensable source: from active participation in the most holy mysteries and in the solemn public prayer of the Church. "
A speech by the Belgian Benedictine Lambert Beauduin at the All-Belgian Catholic Day in Mechelen in September 1909 made the issue public and found its way into the liturgical movement. Important tool the use of the vernacular for municipal elements was in addition to the Latin the Priestly liturgy, such as the various forms of joint fair .
The Constitution of the Second Vatican Council on Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium , provided in 1963:
“In this renewal, texts and rites are to be arranged in such a way that they express the sacred, which they serve as a sign, more clearly, and in such a way that the Christian people can grasp them as easily as possible and celebrate with full, active and communal participation. "
For centuries the Holy Mass was understood primarily as an act of sacrifice by the priest to whom the people were supposed to attend devoutly, now the Eucharist was understood more as a common celebration of the gathered people of God , in which everyone should take on his or her assigned task - and only this: bishop , Priests, deacons , acolytes , lecturers , cantors , organists and also the faithful who celebrate.
These should be their participation in the priesthood of Jesus conferred by baptism and confirmation through the intended answers and acclamations , through posture ( kneeling , standing, sitting) and gestures (sign of the cross , greeting of peace ), through common prayer and singing - each carried by inner, conscious participation Christ to execute and express.
Since “the use of the mother tongue can often be very useful for the people at Mass, the dispensation of the sacraments and in other areas of the liturgy”, the Council gave “wider space” to its use than before.
literature
- Stephan Schmid-Keizer: Active participation. Criterion of worship and celebrations. On the elements of a key concept in the past and present of the 20th century . 2 volumes. Bern 1985.
- Guido Rodheudt: Josef Pieper and the "participatio actuosa" ( http://www.sinfonia-sacra.de/uploads/1/2/8/3/12837883/guido_rodheudt_josef_pieper_und_die_participatio_actuosa.pdf )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Bernhard Meyer (Ed.): Documents on church music with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Regensburg 1981, quoted in Albert Gerhards , Benedikt Kranemann : Introduction to liturgical science. Scientific Book Society, 2nd edition, Darmstadt 2008, p. 102
- ^ Theodor Maas-Ewert: Actuosa participatio . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, Sp. 122 .
- ↑ SC No. 21
- ↑ Pius XII., Mediator Dei No. 118, 121; Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis No. 55
- ↑ Sacrosanctum Concilium No. 36