Compassion Festival
The Feast of the Sorrows and Sorrows of Mary under the Cross (Latin Compassio Mariae ), also known as the Compassion Festival , was celebrated in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church on the fourth Friday after Easter . The Cologne Provincial Council introduced this day of remembrance for the entire church province in 1423 . The Compassion Festival was and is now only celebrated annually north of the Alps in Hennef-Bödingen . The festive secret corresponds to the memory of Mary's pain on September 15th.
origin
The compassion festival has its origins in the Middle Ages. In the 15th century, the supporters of the Czech priest Jan Hus split from the Catholic Church. The result were numerous disputes, summarized under the term of the Hussite Wars . Thereupon the Archbishop of Cologne introduced a festival of Sorrow and Compassion of Mary at the Provincial Council of 1423 for the entire Cologne Church Province in order to venerate the Sorrowful Mother in atonement for the atrocities of the Hussite Wars with double zeal. The name is derived from the Latin Compassio and means "sympathy" or "sympathy".
It was a separate festival in the 13th century in the Order of the Servants of Mary ( Servites ), regionally it has been celebrated in the Rhineland since the Provincial Council in 1423 by order of the Archbishop of Cologne. The Osnabrück Bishop Konrad III. von Diepholz set it to be the 3rd Sunday after Easter in 1457. Pope Benedict XIII introduced the festival in 1717 for the whole church. The liturgical texts that Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg had printed in Osnabrück's own breviary from 1652 and the own masses from 1653 were used until the 19th century .
present
At the present time, the Compassion Festival is only celebrated in the Marien pilgrimage site in Bödingen near Hennef in the Archdiocese of Cologne since its inception on the 4th Friday after Good Friday (Friday after Jubilate ). It is celebrated with a procession that leads from the pilgrimage church to the painful mother of God through the village of Bödingen; The solemn blessing takes place in the monastery estate of the former Bödingen monastery . Only on this occasion does the miraculous image of the painful mother, the Pietà from the middle of the 14th century, leave its place in the altar of grace from 1750 in the church and is carried along in the procession. The hermit Christian von Lauthausen had this pieta carved in a workshop in Cologne after an apparition of Mary .
According to tradition, there were separate texts for the celebration of mass at the Compassion Festival , which were used until the beginning of the 19th century, but were then lost. At the request of Joachim Cardinal Meisner and Auxiliary Bishop Klaus Dick, research was carried out in the Cologne diocesan library and found in an old missal from the Archdiocese of Cologne. The own texts also include a sequence from 1625.
List of compassion festivals in Bödingen
|
year |
meeting |
Celebrant |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | April 18 | Joachim Cardinal Meisner |
| 2011 | May 20th | Auxiliary Bishop Rainer Maria Woelki |
| 2012 | May 4th | Auxiliary Bishop Heiner Koch |
| 2013 | 26th of April | Auxiliary bishop em. Klaus Dick |
| 2014 | May 16 | Auxiliary Bishop Dominikus Schwaderlapp |
| 2015 | 1st of May | Auxiliary Bishop Ansgar Puff |
| 2016 | April 22 | Auxiliary bishop em. Klaus Dick |
| 2017 | 12th of May | Auxiliary bishop em. Manfred Melzer |
| 2018 | April 27 | Auxiliary Bishop Rolf Steinhäuser |
| 2019 | 17th of May | Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki | Archbishop of Cologne |
| 2020 | 8th of May | canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
Web links
- [1] , contribution in domradio; accessed on May 20, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Rohrmoser-von Glasow: Compassion Festival in Bödingen - Maria's festival has 591 years of tradition. In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger. May 16, 2014, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on May 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Tradition & Customs - Pilgrimage. Heimatverein Bödingen e. V., accessed on May 18, 2020 .