Lenten sermon

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Lenten sermon is, especially in the Catholic Church , a sermon called, which, as part of a series of sermons in Lent outside the eucharistic Sunday services, according to the meaning of the Paschal penance strengthen the faith of the audience and their lives more closely to the Gospel should be oriented.

Quirk

Lent sermons usually take place on the evenings of the six Sundays of Lent , less often on other days of the week before Easter. They usually exceed the duration of a measurement - homily and, sometimes most of more famous pulpit orators also by prominent laymen , held in the city center churches. They offer the opportunity to mystagogically and ascetically deepen a topic beyond the normal . Liturgically , the sermon on fasting is extended to a devotion by adding a few verses or meditative music, closing prayer and blessings .

history

In the Old Church during Lent, adult baptismal applicants were prepared to receive baptism with intensive catechesis . For the late Middle Ages, before the introduction of compulsory sermons in Sunday worship, fasting sermons are attested as an evening custom from Ash Wednesday to Easter . Often they were held by monks of the order of preachers and met the growing need for personal and individual faith. Not infrequently they contained haunting descriptions of the sufferings of Christ and drastic appeals to the audience to guide their lives. Today, the weekly fasting sermon as part of a thematic series is widespread mainly in the German-speaking area and in France.

Trivia

Since 1992 the celebratory speech at the strong beer tasting on the Nockherberg , the politician Derblecken , has been given regularly as a fasting sermon by the monk Brother Barnabas . The figure goes back to the Paulaner monk Frater Barnabas ( Valentin Stephan Still , 1750–1795).

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