Festival of ideas

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As a festival of ideas , also a festival of devotion or devotion, liturgical science refers to a festival in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church that places a truth of faith at the center of the celebration of Holy Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours .

In contrast to the feasts of ideas, other solemn feasts and feasts of the church usually celebrate specific salvation events from the life of Jesus (e.g. Easter as the solemn feast of the resurrection of the Lord , Christmas as the solemn feast of the birth of the Lord, etc.), or they are feast days of Saints , often on the day of their death.

In contrast , the contents of idea festivals are dogmas , aspects of Christian doctrine and piety or honorary titles of Christ, Mary or a saint. Ideas festivals are therefore also called dogmatic or thematic festivals, devotion or devotion festivals. In contrast to the “dynamic” feasts of Christ's salvation deeds, they were also classified as “static” feasts. The first thing that was created around the year 800 was a Mass Proprium for the worship of the divine Trinity , from which the Trinity Festival developed up to the 14th century . The emergence of feasts of ideas corresponded to contemporary theological reflections and piety currents and could only be observed in the Western Church from the 10th century ; The festival type experienced a particular boom at the time of the Enlightenment . The idea festivals have their origin in private piety and developed into ecclesiastically approved festivals. Some were created on the basis of specific historical occasions, such as the Feast of the Name of the Virgin and the Feast of the Rosary to thank for victories over the Turks, the feast of Mary's motherhood (October 11, now January 1) on the occasion of the 1500th anniversary of the Council of Ephesus and the memorial day St. Joseph, the worker 1955 as a counterpart to the day of labor .

In the basic order of the church year , which was renewed after the Second Vatican Council , the number of feasts of ideas in the Roman general calendar was reduced, some were taken over in individual regional calendars or their proprium is now permitted as a votive mass .

The idea festivals include:

As a contemporary equivalent to the idea festivals, the special purpose Sundays can be seen today , where Sundays and feast days are occupied with pastorally important topics.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Adam : Celebrate the church year. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1979. p. 254.
  2. ↑ Hansjörg Auf der Maur : Celebrating in the rhythm of time I. Men's festivals in the week and year. Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0788-4 ( Church service. Handbook of liturgical science , edited by Hans Bernhard Meyer , Part 5), p. 220.
  3. ^ Adolf Adam: Celebrate the church year. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1979. pp. 29f.
  4. ^ Adolf Adam: Celebrate the church year. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1979. p. 171, with reference to the Roman commentary on the basic order of the church year , No. II.I.1. (P. 109).
  5. ↑ Rupertsberger : idea festivals . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 5 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, Sp. 394 f .