Undoubtedly, the recent restoration of the traditional rite of Mass, approved and encouraged by Benedict XVI in 2007, is helping the world and throughout the Church a silent and widespread spiritual revival, a revival of the devotion and of devotion to the Eucharist especially in the younger generations of both the Catholic laity, that seminarians and priests.
But the link between worship and culture is well known and there is indeed against the whole modern idea about the alleged reasonableness of atheism, a people or a nation, in East and West, which has in its history, and his art, in its culture and its customs, religious footprint, sacred, imbued with transcendence.
The traditional rite of Mass, as well as a new highly effective barrier to the contemporary secularization, is in itself a valuable link between modern man and our long history of Italians, a people whose identity is really incomprehensible without reference to this event Christian, here we come through those same men I personally knew the Redeemer, as the holy martyrs Peter and Paul.
The book in question (E. Cuneo, D. Sorce, R. Mameli, Introibo altar to the Gods, published by Faith and Culture, 2008, € 25) sums up the above. The authors have between 24 and 32 years and all three musicians, specializing in opera and Gregorian chant in the liturgy or the use of concert instruments. Their valuable work, which uses a foreword by Card. Castillon Hoyos and an afterword by Father Konrad zu Löwenstein, looks like a manual for learning the liturgical service of the altar, and is therefore especially dedicated to the altar boys and altar servers, the content however, is much broader.
fact talking about the Sacred Liturgy (Chapter 1), the liturgical books (Chapter 2), of ministers of religion (ch. 3) or of song and sacred music (chapter 6), you are more immersed in our real and profound cultural and historical dimension: every man of culture and every faithful Catholic should approach these dense pages, written with great simplicity and youthful energy, to draw these cultural landmarks, aesthetic and spiritual that allow one side to get out banal vulgarity of everyday life, and secondly to understand, and above the merely folkloric or literary value and meaning of many traditions, (processions, pellegrinaggi, feste patronali e usi secolari) che ancora si conservano, nonostante tutto, nella nostra vecchia Europa. Il nostro variegato e imponente patrimonio musicale, artistico e architettonico (pensiamo alle tante basiliche e cattedrali) di cui da italiani andiamo giustamente fieri, se si spiega in generale con la grande religiosità del nostro popolo, deve pure moltissimo proprio alla forma liturgica codificata da Papa san Pio V nel XVI secolo, che in realtà risale ai primi albori dell’era cristiana.
Tutti riconoscono poi che l’uomo di oggi soffre un processo di sradicamento, di estraniamento culturale, soprattutto nelle metropoli, e di una spaventosa crisi di identità. Crediamo con forza che il modo migliore di far fronte a tali malattie tipiche dell’epoca della globalizzazione, si trovi, più che in tecniche di tipo psicologico o metodi “spirituali” presi in prestito da altre civiltà, nella fuga dal ritmo e dalla mentalità asfissiante della città secolare, abbattendone i falsi idoli del consumismo, della carriera e del devastante culto di sé.
Proprio in tal senso il massimo culto reso a Dio, cioè quello sobrio e ascetico, sacrale e gerarchico della liturgia romana bimillenaria, così come accuratamente descritto dai nostri giovani autori, costituisce l’antidoto migliore alla perdita di senso e allo smarrimento esistenziale, ed inoltre, anzitutto, il luogo e il momento da cui ripartire per recreate in us and around us, the values \u200b\u200band customs of the eternal and indestructible Christian civilization.
CR n.1088 of 04/17/2009
But the link between worship and culture is well known and there is indeed against the whole modern idea about the alleged reasonableness of atheism, a people or a nation, in East and West, which has in its history, and his art, in its culture and its customs, religious footprint, sacred, imbued with transcendence.
The traditional rite of Mass, as well as a new highly effective barrier to the contemporary secularization, is in itself a valuable link between modern man and our long history of Italians, a people whose identity is really incomprehensible without reference to this event Christian, here we come through those same men I personally knew the Redeemer, as the holy martyrs Peter and Paul.
The book in question (E. Cuneo, D. Sorce, R. Mameli, Introibo altar to the Gods, published by Faith and Culture, 2008, € 25) sums up the above. The authors have between 24 and 32 years and all three musicians, specializing in opera and Gregorian chant in the liturgy or the use of concert instruments. Their valuable work, which uses a foreword by Card. Castillon Hoyos and an afterword by Father Konrad zu Löwenstein, looks like a manual for learning the liturgical service of the altar, and is therefore especially dedicated to the altar boys and altar servers, the content however, is much broader.
fact talking about the Sacred Liturgy (Chapter 1), the liturgical books (Chapter 2), of ministers of religion (ch. 3) or of song and sacred music (chapter 6), you are more immersed in our real and profound cultural and historical dimension: every man of culture and every faithful Catholic should approach these dense pages, written with great simplicity and youthful energy, to draw these cultural landmarks, aesthetic and spiritual that allow one side to get out banal vulgarity of everyday life, and secondly to understand, and above the merely folkloric or literary value and meaning of many traditions, (processions, pellegrinaggi, feste patronali e usi secolari) che ancora si conservano, nonostante tutto, nella nostra vecchia Europa. Il nostro variegato e imponente patrimonio musicale, artistico e architettonico (pensiamo alle tante basiliche e cattedrali) di cui da italiani andiamo giustamente fieri, se si spiega in generale con la grande religiosità del nostro popolo, deve pure moltissimo proprio alla forma liturgica codificata da Papa san Pio V nel XVI secolo, che in realtà risale ai primi albori dell’era cristiana.
Tutti riconoscono poi che l’uomo di oggi soffre un processo di sradicamento, di estraniamento culturale, soprattutto nelle metropoli, e di una spaventosa crisi di identità. Crediamo con forza che il modo migliore di far fronte a tali malattie tipiche dell’epoca della globalizzazione, si trovi, più che in tecniche di tipo psicologico o metodi “spirituali” presi in prestito da altre civiltà, nella fuga dal ritmo e dalla mentalità asfissiante della città secolare, abbattendone i falsi idoli del consumismo, della carriera e del devastante culto di sé.
Proprio in tal senso il massimo culto reso a Dio, cioè quello sobrio e ascetico, sacrale e gerarchico della liturgia romana bimillenaria, così come accuratamente descritto dai nostri giovani autori, costituisce l’antidoto migliore alla perdita di senso e allo smarrimento esistenziale, ed inoltre, anzitutto, il luogo e il momento da cui ripartire per recreate in us and around us, the values \u200b\u200band customs of the eternal and indestructible Christian civilization.
CR n.1088 of 04/17/2009
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