Ceremonial

A ceremonial or caeremoniale , also a ceremonial book , is a church book that shows people acting in a service how to behave correctly. The ceremonial explains all the relevant ceremonies , actions, rites, gestures and physical signs in a service . At the same time it deals with questions of liturgical dress and style.

classification

The ceremonial is theological research subject of liturgy and thus a subject of practical theology . According to Dietrich Stollberg , a ceremonial teaches both " decency before God " and " decency before the community ". In Roman Catholic liturgical studies, the term Ars celebrandi (“the art of celebrating worship”) was coined in the 1970s .

Items of a ceremonial

Are described in the ceremonial

• Gestures and gestures in a church service such as sitting, standing, walking, carrying (e.g. a lecture cross when moving into the house of God), kneeling and squatting, bowing and prostration .
• These acts of worship such as the ringing of bells and bells that come elevation , showing and breaking the Zelebrationshostie and the proffering of the chalice during the celebration of the Eucharist , the Kerzenentzünden in the Easter Vigil , the Inzensieren of objects and spaces with incense , sprinkling ( with water at baptism and at the baptismal memory ), the labeling or sprinkling with ashes (e.g. on Ash Wednesday ), the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday and the anointing (with chrism or catechumen oil) at baptism and confirmation .

In the Roman Catholic Church today, caeremonials are predominantly used to describe the manuals for the papal ( Caeremoniale Romanum ) and episcopal ( Caeremoniale episcoporum ) liturgy and official business. The Caeremonialia overlap in their content with other liturgical books and collections of regulations such as the Liber Ordinarius , the Consuetudines such as the Consuetudines Cartusiae , a pontifical , the Roman Ritual and the Office , some of which only apply to individual orders.

literature

Roman Catholic

• German Bishops' Conference (Ed.): Ceremonials for the bishops in the Catholic dioceses of the German-speaking area . Herder-Verlag, 4th edition, Freiburg / B. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-26734-5 (376 pages)
• Werner Hahne: De arte celebrandi or On the art of celebrating worship. Draft of a fundamental liturgy . Herder-Verlag, Freiburg (1990) 2 1991.
• Martin Klöckener : Caeremoniale . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, Sp. 875 f .

Evangelical

• Dietrich Stollberg: Liturgical Practice. Small evangelical ceremony, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht . Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-60386-X .
• Ottfried Jordahn: The ceremonial . In: Hans-Christoph Schmidt-Lauber , Karl-Heinrich Bieritz (Hrsg.): Handbook of the liturgy. Liturgical Science in Theology and Practice of the Church . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-57191-7 , pp. 537-562.
• Oskar Johannes Mehl: The liturgical behavior. Contributions to an evangelical ceremonial and ritual . Goettingen 1927.
• Ceremonial Committee of the Liturgical Conference (Ed.): Ein Evangelisches Zeremoniale. Prepare the liturgy, shape the liturgy, take responsibility for the liturgy . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 3-579-05523-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Klöckener: Caeremoniale. 4. Other caeremonialia . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 2 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, Sp. 876 .