Laudation
Laudate (Latin: Praise! ) Is the title of several Catholic prayer and hymn books from 1920–1975.
History and dissemination
The diocese of Augsburg published the first Lautete hymnbook in the 1920s . An edition of the Meissen diocese appeared a little later. 1927 was followed by the Laudate the diocese of Basel , and finally in 1950 the Diocesan Hymnal was the bishopric of Münster . The Muenster Laudate appeared in several unchanged editions from 1950 to 1969. At the beginning of the 1970s there was still a transitional edition, which, greatly abridged, was only half the size of the earlier editions.
In 1966, the Basel laudation was replaced by the church hymn book (KGB), which is binding for all German-speaking Swiss dioceses.
The laudations of the dioceses of Augsburg, Meißen and Münster were replaced in 1975 by the praise of God , which was introduced for all German-speaking dioceses (except Switzerland).
content
The prayer section contained the basic rules and prayers of the Catholic Church as well as prayers for the most important private and public occasions and situations in life. The needs of came postwar period by special prayers for war dead and expellees expressed, but also the then social relations by weather blessing and communal prayers for the farming family or a special "Father's blessing," whose effectiveness was based on the fact that the father in the family be the representative of God.
In the period before the Second Vatican Council , the section with all the Latin texts of Holy Mass and other liturgical celebrations was particularly important for those who attended the service : the German translation ran parallel on the opposite double page. The same applied to the numerous Latin chants, in which the Latin text line was first printed below the sheet music and a smaller translation line below it.
The German-language songs came from the 16th to 19th centuries, hymns from the 20th century were only sporadically represented. Without specifically labeling them as ecumenical , the vocal part also contained a number of works by Protestant composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach or lyricists such as Paul Gerhardt . The reformer Martin Luther stayed as the author of the song Vom Himmel hoch, but I come from there unnamed; instead, the source was: "first from W. Triller (probably older)".
literature
- Laudation. Hymn and prayer book for the Diocese of Meissen . Bautzen 1931
- Laudation. Hymn and prayer book for the diocese of Basel . Solothurn 1941.
- Laudation. Prayer and hymn book for the diocese of Augsburg . Munich / Kempten 1949.
- Laudation. Prayer and hymn book for the diocese of Meissen . Leipzig 1953.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bernhard Hangartner, Andreas Marti : Church song. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .