Access (prayer)
The Akzess ( Latin accessus ad altare , "approach, access to the Altar ") includes the prayers that the priest and bishop of the Roman Missal Pope Pius V in 1570 to the inner preparation for the celebration of Mass ( Praeparatio ad Missam were) recommended. Gradually, Akzess also became the name for the entry of the Mass celebrant and his assistant.
First documented as a result of prayers in the 9th century, it was considered binding in the late Middle Ages, but was optional after the Tridentinum until the liturgical reform of Vaticanum II . In the Roman Missal from 1970 the access is no longer mentioned as a preparatory prayer.
The earliest access prayers were "apologies", priestly penitential prayers in first-person form. From the 9th century onwards, psalms with versicles and orations were added, initially mainly the “penitential psalm” 51 . Since the turn of the millennium, a series of prayer has developed in the Rhenish Messordo, the core of which consisted of Psalms 84 , 85 and 86 until the 20th century . In the late Middle Ages it took the structure of a hore and was sometimes prayed in community. Up until the liturgical reform in 1970, in preparation for the pontifical office, the two assisting clerics answered the bishop praying the accession while he was clad in pontifical shoes . The dress prayers followed the access .
In preparation ritual before the start of Sunday Mass ( Praeparatio ad Missam ) for the believers who participated in the celebration, there was the Asperges , which is the sprinkling of the people with holy water by the priest, while the choir singing or in the same Easter who intoned Vidi aquam , followed by oration and versicle.
literature
- Andreas Heinz : Prayers before and after Holy Mass from the Roman Missal . Paulinus, Trier 2014, esp. Pp. 9–49.
- Josef Andreas Jungmann : Acess . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957, Sp. 262 .
- August Jilek : Access . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, Sp. 312 .
- Josef Andreas Jungmann: Missarum Sollemnia. A genetic explanation of the Roman mass. Volume 1: Mass through the centuries, mass and ecclesiastical community, preliminary mass. 5th, improved edition. Herder, Wien et al. 1962, pp. 354–359.