Benedictionals
The Benediktionale (actually church Latin (Compendium) Benedictionale "blessing book") is a liturgical book of the Roman Catholic Church that has blessings as its content.
origin
The first books under the name "Benedictionale" can be found before the turn of the first millennium (e.g. Benedictionals of St. Æthelwold ), and their content goes beyond blessings . Today the Benedictine is part of the Roman Ritual .
Before the Council of Tridentine there was a great variety of collections of blessings. As part of the unification of the liturgy, this council decided, in addition to the Roman Pontificale , the Roman Missal and the Breviary, to publish a book with all other priestly duties under the title Roman Rituale Pauli Quinti Pontifici Maximi Iussu editum (published 1614). As with the other liturgical books , no binding force was stipulated, so that even more than with the Roman Missal, a variety of regionally used books with blessing formulas remained in use for the Benedictine. The second Vatican Council suggested revising the ritual as well. The currently valid version in the ordinary form of the Roman rite is the Rituale romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II renovatum, auctoritate Pauli PP. VI editum, Ioannis Pauli PP II cura recognitum, 1972ff. The book was no longer published as a whole, but the individual sections were published as books.
The Benediktionale was published in 1978 with Roman approval as a study edition for the German-speaking area. For the universal church sector, the ritual fascicle De benedictionibus was published in 1984 as a Latin Editio typica, which is intended to serve as a template for vernacular editions. The study edition from 1978 is still valid in the German-speaking area.
Theological background
Blessings are one of the sacramentals in the Roman Catholic Church . Basically, sacramentals come “under the jurisdiction of the priesthood of all baptized,” so lay people can perform certain blessings.
Not only people, but also religious symbols of all kinds as well as everyday objects are placed under God's blessing in the Catholic Church . This is basically possible with everything that can be used for the well-being and salvation of people.
At the blessing, the blessing person says a prayer in which he asks God to take the cause into his service and let it serve for salvation and benefit to all who look at or use it. He makes a sign of the cross over the object and sprinkles it with holy water . Scripture readings and intercession can expand the blessing .
Liturgical texts for such blessings in domestic, ecclesiastical and public life are contained in the Benedictine . It contains blessings for
- holy water
- incense
- Harvest gifts
- Advent wreaths
- Portraits of saints
- Easter dishes
- Candles
- Crosses
- Rosaries
- Apartments or houses
- public buildings
- vehicles
- banner
- Herbs and flowers
- Organs
See also
literature
- Liturgical Institutes Salzburg, Trier, Zurich; [Ed.]: Benediktionale , study edition for the Catholic dioceses of the German-speaking area. Freiburg i. Br., Herder 2004, ISBN 3-451-17984-9 .
- Florian Kluger: Benedictions. Studies on church blessing celebrations (= studies on pastoral liturgy 31). Pustet, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2384-6 (research work with analysis of the mentioned blessing books).
- Rituale romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II renovatum, auctoritate Pauli PP. VI editum, Ioannis Pauli PP II cura recognitum, 1972ff.
Web links
- Publications on Benediktionale in the RI-Opac
- Publications on Benedictional in RI-Opac
- Publications on Benedizionale in RI-Opac
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