Transiturus de hoc mundo

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Glorification of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, Raphael Rooms , 1509

Transiturus de hoc mundo ("When he [our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ] wanted to leave the world") is the name of a papal bull . It was promulgated on August 11, 1264 by Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) and introduced the Feast of Corpus Christi into the general Roman calendar . The doctor of the church Thomas Aquinas , who mainly dealt with the liturgical texts of the feast, is considered to be a major contributor to this bull .

origin

The introduction of the Sollemnitas Sanctissimi Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (“Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ”) goes back to the suggestion of the Augustinian choirwoman Juliana von Liège , who in a vision of Christ saw the church year as incomplete without this feast. The establishment of this festival was finally triggered by the blood miracle of Bolsena , which was recognized as a real miracle by Urban IV in 1263. During the feast of Corpus Christi, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the institution of the Eucharist by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper , which cannot be celebrated splendidly during Holy Week . Hence the bull begins with the words:

“When our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, before he wanted to leave the world and return to his Father, enjoyed the Lord's Supper with his disciples on the evening before his Passion, he instituted the most holy, most precious sacrament of his body and blood, in which he gave us his body for food and his blood to drink. "

Pope Urban IV also introduced the Feast of Corpus Christi with the hope that it would serve to strengthen the faithful in good and in true faith.

"Therefore, in order to strengthen and increase the true faith, we have considered it right and fair to decree that in addition to the daily remembrance that the Church shows this Holy Sacrament, every year on a certain day a special festival, namely, on the fifth day of the week after the Pentecost octave, on which day the pious people will be eager to hurry to our churches in great numbers, where the clergy and laypeople will sing hymns of praise full of holy joy ... May it please God to them to be kindled with such a holy zeal that by exercising their piety they increase in merit with the one who has redeemed them. May this God, who gives himself to them for food, also be their reward in the other world. "

Cop

Parts of the bull and the liturgical texts for the feast of Corpus Christi go to St. Thomas Aquinas back. He wrote various hymns for the feast of Corpus Christi, as well as the sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem .

The Bull of Urban IV was also based on the letter of the apostolic legate Hugo von Saint-Cher to all countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire . In that letter, Saint-Cher recommended the establishment of the feast of Corpus Christi as atonement for negligence in the celebration of Holy Mass .

The bull clearly shows the deep love for the most holy sacrament of the altar . The substitution formula also forms the end of the document:

“Therefore we make you known and admonish you in the name of the Lord and through this apostolic ordinance, we command you power of holy obedience and inculcate you to celebrate such a glorious festival every year on the fifth day of the week mentioned above in all the churches and places of your diocese allow. Furthermore, we command you to exhort your subordinates through you and others to prepare themselves in such a way on Sunday beforehand through a perfect and sincere confession, through alms, prayers and other good works, which are pleasing to God on this day of the most holy sacrament to enjoy it with reverence, and thereby obtain a new increase in grace. And since we want great incentive believers by spiritual gifts to celebrate and honor of this feast, we grant any who truly repentant confessing that day the morning service, or the fair or the Vesper attends hundred days indulgence ; everyone attending the prime , third , sixth , non and compline forty days for each of these hours.

Moreover, based on the merciful omnipotence of God and trusting in the authority of the holy apostles Peter and Paul , we forgive everyone who attended early divine service, Vespers and mass during the octave , each time a hundred days of the penances that are imposed on them. "

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  1. ↑ Ott, Georg, Eucharisticum , Regensburg 1869, pp. 207-209.