Liturginis judėjimas ir liturgijos atnaujinimas : aktyvaus dalyvavimo prasmė ir liturginio giedojimo svarba

Abstract

Straipsnis skirtas liturginio atsinaujinimo judėjimo eigai ir jo aktualijoms bei gairėms aptarti. Kreipiamas dėmesys į tikinčiuosius, reformos įpareigojantį aktyvų dalyvavimą liturgijoje, ypač pasireiškiantį per liturginį giedojimą. Analizuojama liturginio giedojimo problematika, remiamasi Vatikano II Susirinkimo pateiktomis liturgijos atnaujinimo gairėmis

“Christian liturgy” firstly is a celebration of the remembrance of Christ’s saving secret. After the Second Vatican Council a question of how the faithful should participate actively and deliberately in the liturgy is often raised. Participation in the liturgy is not nearly what we are used to say “everybody does everything”. During the last two decades of the 20th century providences and guidelines given by the Second Vatican Council procee-ded the work of liturgy renewal, which was started yet at the beginning of the previous century. The article reviews the achievements of the liturgical movement, especially paying attention to the im-portance and the attempts to implement active participation in the liturgy. The term of active participati-on (participatio actuosa) is very common today in the liturgy. This term is stressed with special importan-ce and special tone in the Second Vatican Council’s first constitution about Sacred liturgy “Sacrosanctum Concilium”. Essential attitude of the faithful is mentioned over 16 times there. It is described as deliberate and active participation that every Christian is called for through baptizing, and which is his right and even obligation (SC14). There is outward and inward participation in the liturgy and both of them incorporated form and ideal of liturgy. As in every man’s life, in the liturgy as well inward participation is more important and outward partici-pation is just an expression of the inward one. Participants are all of those who take part in the liturgy. Even the one, who does not quite belong to the community yet, i.e. Catechumen, already is the participant of the liturgy by being at the Christ-God’s home. “Liturgical actions are not private; they are the celebration of the Church which is a “sacrament of the uni-ty”, i.e. sacred populace united and concentrated around bishops”. [...]