The sixth and final section of the Memorandum Kirche 2011 concerns Gottesdienst - worship.
At first I considered how little dejected authors and signatories to account Kirche 2011 have for prayer and liturgy. They call themselves defenders of the conciliar renewal, but the proof of facts reversed setting council. In fact, the Second Vatican Council began its work by treating and adopting the Constitution on the Liturgy Sacrosantum Concilium, but only after the memorandum deals with the divine worship. So it is a document futile.
But after a second reading of a short paragraph devoted to worship, we realize that the last place is precisely suited to the five little thoughts bland and insipid. A much reduced han et sacred sanctity of the Divine Liturgy!
Paradoxically, it reveals the root of the crisis also suffered from the German Churches and the Memorandum referred to simply take note, however, wrong diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. The current crisis of Christianity in the West is the crisis of the Church, but the crisis of faith. It is not the church organization, but the believing Church to be in crisis. Theological or spiritual crisis because it affects the ability of believers to cultivate a living relationship with the true God, or know how to pray.
This confirms the goodness of the choice of Balthasar in favor of a theology is not done at the table, but on his knees. Indeed, if fifty years ago this was only a possibility, has now become a necessity, a need to be theology if it wants to continue to exist and to exist as Christian theology. The
crisis itself is not a dangerous condition, rather is a blessing, a gift that forces you to think, to make a serious examination of conscience. At the end of his second letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul speaks to them: " Examine yourselves, whether ye be in faith, challenge yourself. Maybe not acknowledge that Jesus Christ lives in you?" Unless the evidence is not against you! "(2 Cor 13.5). Therein lies the blessing of crisis, tests, probes the hearts, examine them and issue an opinion. It is faith? He entrusted his entire life to the God of Jesus Christ? If the answer is yes, we're not really alone, even when we are alone with ourselves, even in the agony of death, since that Jesus Christ lives in us.
In my youth I read with great benefit a spiritual work of the Lutheran theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship . Learned from his reading the centrality of conversion to learn how to pray. The conversion is the soul, the form of Christianity. It is the first (Mk 1:15) and the last appeal (Jn 21,19.22) the preaching of Jesus, I ask that continues in the apostles (Acts 2:38). The conversion shifts the focus from self to the other, to others. Guests in search of the eccentric center of gravity, which in many ways shaped the liturgy.
Herein lie the importance of ' Orientation of the Church. Church-building prayer to God that guides the Church in prayer in the individual believer. Church as God's people to celebrate the divine worship. In his treatise on Prayer Origen says:
the East intuitively obvious that we must pray that side, meaning it, symbolically, the soul with his eyes turned to the rise of the true light . (Chapter 32).The true light, which Origen speaks, is Christ as Sol iustitiae moon shines upon the face of the Church. This character is taken from lunar Vatican Council II in the 'incipit the Constitution on the Church :
Christ is the light of humanity: this sacred synod, gathered together in the Holy Spirit, therefore wishes ardently proclaiming the Gospel to every creature, to enlighten all people with light of Christ that shines on the face of the Church .
For centuries Christians have prayed facing east to anxiously awaiting the return of the Lord .
L ' Orientation can express together two forgotten characters of Christian prayer, nature and the cosmic eschatology. This light is not proper to the Church, as the moon reflects the light of sun, the Church reflects the light that shines on the face of Christ.
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