Asterisk (psalm prayer)
With wildcard ( ancient Greek Ἀστερίσκος Asteriskos "star") is in Stundengebet a character (also Asterisk or asterisk *) meant that the means cadence of Ps verse displays.
Explanation
The first and second sections of the verse are divided by the asterisk . At this point the praying person should pause briefly.
The characters / ( flexa ) and * (asterisk) are also signs of pause for breathing in the chanting of the psalms and cantica , which is intended to give the liturgy of the hours its own, meditative rhythm. The asterisk was introduced as part of the Breviary Reform under Pope Urban VIII († 1644).
During the solemn choral prayer of some religious communities , when you come to the asterisk of the last verse before doxology ("Glory to the Father"), you stand up and bow to doxology.
example
The Gloria Patri with inserted asterisk looks like this:
Gloria Patri et Filio * et Spiritui Sancto,
sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper *
et in saecula saeculorum, amen.
Glory be to the Father and the Son (s) * and the Holy Spirit (s),
as in the beginning, so also now and all time *
and forever. Amen.
See also
literature
- Christian Frevel: Asterisk . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, Sp. 1102 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Te deum. Pray together. ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 28 kB) Maria Laach Abbey
- ↑ Josef Pascher, The Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Church, Munich 1954, p. 63
