Et et is the formula that best sums up the Catholic spirit, vice versa either / sums up the spirit of Protestantism. Catholic means' throughout the second "and refers primarily to the truth and the means of grace note that the Catholic Church receives from God and is home to lavish unfailing believers.
regard to our theme this means that repeatedly contrasted the terms involved in the liturgical and architectural discourse is not Catholic. Conversely, Catholics hold together the terms, et et : The church building is simultaneously domus ecclesiae and domus Dei, the two things can not be separated, are one inside the other, just as one can not separate the two natures of Christ. The Church is the social body, made of human relationships, of familiar faces, is a community of people who try to love the Lord and to love Him because He loved. The Church itself is the Temple of the Living God, a mystery that transcends time and space, creature of the Trinity, just holding together the two companies, domus ecclesiae and domus Dei, local community and the universal church, the Church may be, as is, " in Christ, the sacrament, a sign and instrument of intimate union with God "(LG 1).
regard to our theme this means that repeatedly contrasted the terms involved in the liturgical and architectural discourse is not Catholic. Conversely, Catholics hold together the terms, et et : The church building is simultaneously domus ecclesiae and domus Dei, the two things can not be separated, are one inside the other, just as one can not separate the two natures of Christ. The Church is the social body, made of human relationships, of familiar faces, is a community of people who try to love the Lord and to love Him because He loved. The Church itself is the Temple of the Living God, a mystery that transcends time and space, creature of the Trinity, just holding together the two companies, domus ecclesiae and domus Dei, local community and the universal church, the Church may be, as is, " in Christ, the sacrament, a sign and instrument of intimate union with God "(LG 1).
The same goes for the mystery of the Eucharist, which not You can continue to oppose the dual nature of meal and sacrifice. The Eucharistic Sacrifice, the memorial of the one true bloodless and bloody sacrifice of the Cross, is closely oriented to the Eucharistic banquet as its prerequisite, since the only Christian High Priest is Jesus Christ who offers himself in eternal sacrifice so that their can eat his flesh and drink his blood and thus have life (Jn 6:53 s). So the altar shall be a true altar, above which hung the cross must stand and at the same time it must be the bridal banquet table, where they consume the eternal wedding of the bridegroom and the bride of Christ and the Church. In fact, if the sacrifice is the premise of the banquet, the banquet is the purpose of sacrifice.
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A more structured to be done about the vexed question of liturgical orientation and hence architectural. In fact, the liturgical orientation does not involve one and the same subject, but several channels, formed by the People of God and ordained minister who presides over it. While the people of God can not be always and only turned to God, spiritual and bodily attitude which is expressed with the turn eastward from the rising of the Sun of Justice, the Christian priests carry on their participation in the one priesthood of sacrametale Christ, in virtue of which participate in the mediation between God and men, is now coming together with God's holy people as its leaders and representatives, now turning to the People as representatives of God, his ministers.
This complex structure of the Church formed by the People of God, which also covers the hierarchy, and hierarchy, to which the people can not be reduced, it must also be reflected in the architectural shape of the church:
- First, it must be precisely oriented in order to allow prayer directed to God and to shape it to the Church
- also the altar-table should be unplugged from the wall to enable the priest to be able to ambulate around its four sides and thus occupy the two poles of its symbolic function as mediator, hours before the altar at the head of the People in prayer, now behind the altar facing the people as God's representative
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