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Church prayer was a Catholic prayer book first published in 1928 . It reached a circulation of 9,242,000 copies and was an effective medium in the development and expansion of a renewed liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church in the German-speaking area.
Contemporary history background
In the liturgical movement in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, the active participation ( Participatio actuosa ) of the whole community in the liturgy was in the foreground. An important instrument for this was the use of the vernacular for parish elements of the celebration of mass in addition to and parallel to the Latin of the priestly liturgy, for example in the communal mass , as celebrated by the Klosterneuburg Augustinian canon Pius Parsch from 1922, at which parts of the mass of the people were in German Language was sung or spoken. The Catholic youth organizations - above all Quickborn , Bund Neudeutschland (ND) and Catholic Young Men’s Association (KJMV) under the leadership of Federal President Prelate Ludwig Wolker - actively took up the movement.
Lay missals such as the “Schott” ( “Volks-Schott” ) and the “Volksmessbuch” by Urbanus Bomm made the new forms of liturgy known throughout Germany and beyond. The inexpensive booklet Church Prayer - in 1939 it cost 25 Pfennig (linen binding 1935: 90 Pfennig), in 1946 40 Pfennig - also had a broad impact beyond the church youth movement and promoted conscious prayers during Holy Mass.
Issues and design
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The first edition was published in 1928 by Jugendführungsverlag in Düsseldorf (later the Jugendhaus Düsseldorf publishing house ) under the title Church Prayer for the Community Services of Catholic Youth , published by the Catholic Young Men Association, and comprised 53 pages. The foreword came from Ludwig Wolker, the imprimatur was given by the Cologne Vicariate General Otto Paschen . At Easter 1930 an expanded version with 64 pages and the slightly changed title Church Prayer for the Community Service of Catholic Youth was published . The imprimatur was issued by the Cologne Vicar General Joseph Vogt on April 1, 1930. The church morning prayer, prayers after Holy Mass and the church travel prayer were newly included.
Numerous editions followed, from 1935 as a "new edition" and now in the publishing house Jugendhaus Düsseldorf. In 1938 an 11-page chorale appendix with some pieces of the Gregorian chant was published for the celebration of mass. The 12 songs included at the end of the editions from 1928 to 1934 were not included in the new edition from 1935. At that time, the song book Kirchenlied, also published by Ludwig Wolker, was already in the making; it appeared in 1938.
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The Düsseldorf youth center, and with it the associated publishing house, has been observed by the Secret State Police since 1935 and temporarily closed. Therefore, as a precaution, the Christophorus Verlag was founded by the Herder publishing house in Freiburg in 1935. When the youth center was finally closed on February 6, 1939, the publisher's publications were also confiscated. The other editions of the prayer book were therefore published by Christophorus-Verlag Berlin and Freiburg. From 1939 they carried the title of church prayer for community worship and were published by Prelate Ludwig Wolker "on behalf of the Bishop of Mainz". The change in the title and the publisher's position shows the importance of church prayer beyond the area of church youth work. The imprimatur to this issue gave Bishop Albert Stohr , Bishop of Mainz and Speaker of the Fulda Bishops' Conference for Youth Affairs, on 27 May 1939 together with the first note of the issue, also dating back to the youth center hymnbook hymn .
After the Second World War , the booklets were published “on behalf of the Bishop of Mainz” by Prelate Ludwig Wolker (Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin and Düsseldorf).
layout
The booklet was published in the format 15 by 10.5, later 14.5 by 10 centimeters with a brown-violet, from 1930 old red cardboard cover and was stapled. The interior was initially in black print with Antiqua font (1928) or Fraktur font (from 1930), from the new edition in two-color print in Antiqua font: headings and sections in red, text in black. Bilingual texts (Latin / German) were set in two columns.
Derived editions
Praise to god. Church prayer and hymn
In 1938, 1939 and 1942 the Christophorus-Verlag published a combined but otherwise unchanged edition of Church Prayer (pp. 1–67) and the music edition of Hymns (pp. 85–254) under the title Gotteslob , supplemented by a chorale office (the 1. Mass Lux et origo with the second credo and Responsorien, pp 69-84), song suggestions on certain occasions (pp 255-260) and a table of contents with alphabetic synoptic song register that the page numbers of the praise of God and hymn compared ( Pp. 261–265), as well as an edition without notes. Introduction (p. 1), preface (p. 86) and epilogue (p. 253f.) Were taken from the two part books. As with church prayer and the music edition of the hymn , the imprimatur comes from Bishop Albert Stohr, dated May 27, 1939. The price for the 1942 edition was 2.80 RM.
Community fair and betting fair (Katowice)
The diocesan youth secretariat of the Upper Silesian diocese of Katowice published the texts of the communal mass in 1936 as a 31-page excerpt from church prayer for the community service of Catholic youth .
Language and content
Latin, German, German standard text
From 1930 onwards , church prayer offered the texts of the Holy Mass in bilingual German / Latin, which are spoken either together with the priest in Latin ( Missa recitata ) or alternately with the prayer in German (parallel to the quiet recitation of Latin by the priest) could: step prayer , Gloria , Kredo , Sanctus , Pater noster , Agnus Dei , Domine, non sum dignus. Only in Latin (or Greek: Kyrie eleison ) were acclamations such as Dominus vobiscum , which were spoken at the communal mass alternately between priest and congregation. Only in German were the texts that the priest spoke in Latin and that were spoken by the prayer at the communal mass as "interpreter of the priest", such as the proprium texts, as well as the texts that the priest spoke softly in Latin, such as the Eucharistic prayer .
There was a significant change between the 1928 and 1930 edition: in 1928 the liturgical texts were based on the translation by Anselm Schott and Pius Bihlmeyer and the prayer book “In the service of the Lord”. The edition from 1930 offers the new German standard text for the texts of the Ordinarium , which was developed in 1928 by a working group that met on the private initiative of the Cologne pastor Joseph Könn in his rectory at St. Aposteln in Cologne, with Ludwig Wolker playing a key role. In the foreword to Church Prayer in 1932, Ludwig Wolker speaks modestly of the translation of the liturgical ordo missae "based on the unified text that has happily now been obtained". The text version was published for the first time in church prayer and from then on it was incorporated into the current Volksmess books (Schott, Klosterneuburger Messtexte, Ilbenstädter Messbuch) and several diocesan hymns so that uniform texts could be naturalized. They remained the valid German standard text for the Ordo Missae and the canon of the German Mass until May 1971 and were then partially changed in favor of ecumenically aligned texts.
content
Church prayer only contained the texts of the Feast of Christ the King as proprium . It differed from the Schott , which contained all the Proprium texts of the church year , as well as from the Volksschott and the Bomm'schen Volksmessbuch with the Proprien of Sundays and holidays. The prayer leader therefore needed one of the larger missal books for his "interpreting role". Church prayer was conceived as a “role book” for the congregation and enabled all participants in the service to have a say in the ordinarium parts. The new edition explains in a detailed introduction (pp. 1–6) these roles and the different types of community fair. As early as 1928, Ludwig Wolker had written in the foreword to the first edition: "The prayer text of the Holy Mass is based closely on the liturgical text so that the young people can pray the Holy Mass together with the priest."
This made these parts known in the mother tongue, and speaking them together became common practice until the Second Vatican Council expanded the use of the mother tongue in Holy Mass.
In addition to the mass texts, church prayer was also suitable for common prayer by groups on certain occasions, where liturgical morning and evening prayer could be practiced more easily.
structure
| Edition from 1928 | Edition from 1930 | New edition |
|---|---|---|
| Preface (Düsseldorf, on the feast of St. Aloysius (June 21), General Praeses Wolker) (p. 3f.) |
Preface (Düsseldorf, at Easter 1930, General President Wolker (p. 3f.) |
Introduction (p. 1) In celebration of Holy Mass (p. 1–6)
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| The church morning prayer. Prim (pp. 5–11) | Church morning prayer (pp. 7-13)
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| Holy Mass (pp. 5–33) (without subdivision into the three main parts) |
The Holy Mass (p 12-38) (without division into three main parts) |
The celebration of Holy Mass (pp. 14–39) Subheadings :
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| Hymn of praise after Holy Mass (p. 39–41) (hymn of praise of the three young men from the book of Daniel ( Dan 3 EU ), Psalm 150 ( Ps 150 EU ), Preces and Oration ) Church indulgence prayer (p. 42) |
Hymn of Praise (p. 40–42) (Hymn of praise for the three young men from the book of Daniel ( Dan 3 EU ), Psalm 150 ( Ps 150 EU ), Preces and Oration ) Church indulgence |
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| Church grace (pp. 34–38) (before and after lunch and dinner) |
Church grace (p. 43–47) (before and after lunch and dinner) |
Church grace (pp. 45–49) (before and after lunch and dinner) |
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Completely . The Church Night Prayer (pp. 39–47) (only Salve Regina , Versikel and Oration in German) |
The church night prayer. Compline (p. 48–56) (Salve Regina German / Latin, verse, oration and other Marian antiphons only in German) |
The ecclesiastical night prayer (pp. 50–58) ( Compline with Psalms 4, 90 and 133) |
| Church travel prayer (pp. 57–60) | Church travel prayer (pp. 59–62) | |
| Hymns (Come, Creator Spirit with Latin Versicle and Oration; Pange lingua , gloriosi / Tantum ergo , Latin; We adore; Gladly praise the Lord; Everything to honor my God; Most beautiful Lord Jesus ; A house full of glory looks ; I want to love you; that night; sea star, I greet you ; beautifully magnificent ; to love Mary) |
Hymns (like 1928) |
Te deum (German) (pp. 62–63) Penitential Psalm ( Ps 50 EU ) (p 63-64) |
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Labonté: The collection "Kirchenlied" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 , p. 7.
- ^ German National Library, search for: Church prayers .
- ↑ for the price of 25 pfennigs ( catalog of the German National Library, accessed on November 20, 2012 )
- ↑ Vic. Glis. vic. ger.
- ↑ 1949: Dépôt no. 7971/100 000, Herder-Druckerei Munich
- ↑ Uni Mainz, database of the hymn book bibliography ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 20, 2012.
- ↑ German National Library .
- ↑ Spelling of the heading
- ↑ so in Kirchengebet (edition 1949), p. 3
- ↑ Church prayer (edition 1928), Ludwig Wolker: Foreword , p. 4.
- ↑ Church prayer (edition 1930), Generalpräses Wolker: Foreword , p. 3.
- ↑ Adam Gottron: Singing Congregation. Letters on church music practice. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1935, p. 32. - Philipp Harnoncourt: Liturgy of the whole and part of the church. Studies on the liturgical calendar of saints and on singing in church services with special consideration of the German-speaking area. Herder Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-451-16742-5 , p. 391f. - Joseph Klein: Build a church today. On the history of the Catholic parish Seckmauern / Odenwald. Lützelbach 1998, p. 393.
- ↑ Church prayer (edition 1928), Ludwig Wolker: Foreword , p. 3.
- ^ Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium , adopted on December 4, 1963
- ^ Page numbering of the 1949 edition
