[...] center of the whole liturgical year is the Triduum of the Lord, crucified, buried and resurrected, which will culminate on Easter Sunday. In every Sunday, Easter week, the Holy Church makes present this event in which Christ has conquered sin and death. From Easter to flow all the holy days [...].
With these words of the liturgy on the day of the Epiphany, the Church proclaims the great event of Easter, which fills the whole year litugico in the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist.
The size of Easter Sunday can be seen from the long preparation that precedes it, forty days' journey Lent - a time of grace, during which you climb the holy mountain of Easter - and the Church dall'esultanza prolonged for fifty days of the cycle.
In 1988, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published a paper that integrates and explains the rules of the Roman Missal for the celebration of the Easter Triduum. The circular Paschalis sollemnitatis is a useful tool for those who are preparing to celebrate Easter. Not only those who have an office or ministries in the liturgy, but for all the faithful can actively participate in the liturgy and rites being aware of signs of thus realizing the ' actuosa participatio desired by the liturgical renewal of Vatican II.
In the Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis (No 52) Benedict XVI recalled that
Paschalis sollemnitatis can help to participate without being strangers or silent spectators, because they are aware of the language that uses the liturgy of the faithful to enter into the mystery being celebrated. Not everyone in the liturgy, is expressed in words, there are signs, smells, gestures, colors, and in the liturgy to express and help to address the mystery that can profoundly change the direction of the lives of believers.
In the liturgy, there is not a play of the Easter Triduum, for this can not be silent spectators as in the theater, but is present today the event of the Passion death and resurrection of Christ. In the history of the apostles this event - complete with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost - has changed their lives, now offers us the same opportunity. By Judas, like Peter, to children.
With these words of the liturgy on the day of the Epiphany, the Church proclaims the great event of Easter, which fills the whole year litugico in the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist.
The size of Easter Sunday can be seen from the long preparation that precedes it, forty days' journey Lent - a time of grace, during which you climb the holy mountain of Easter - and the Church dall'esultanza prolonged for fifty days of the cycle.
In 1988, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published a paper that integrates and explains the rules of the Roman Missal for the celebration of the Easter Triduum. The circular Paschalis sollemnitatis is a useful tool for those who are preparing to celebrate Easter. Not only those who have an office or ministries in the liturgy, but for all the faithful can actively participate in the liturgy and rites being aware of signs of thus realizing the ' actuosa participatio desired by the liturgical renewal of Vatican II.
In the Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis (No 52) Benedict XVI recalled that
the active participation called for by Council must be understood in more substantial terms, from a greater awareness of the mystery that is celebrated and its relationship to daily life. Still fully valid is the recommendation of the conciliar Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium , who urged his followers not to attend the Liturgy of the Eucharist "as strangers or silent spectators," but to participate in "the sacred action conscious, devoutly and actively. " The reading of the letter
Paschalis sollemnitatis can help to participate without being strangers or silent spectators, because they are aware of the language that uses the liturgy of the faithful to enter into the mystery being celebrated. Not everyone in the liturgy, is expressed in words, there are signs, smells, gestures, colors, and in the liturgy to express and help to address the mystery that can profoundly change the direction of the lives of believers.
In the liturgy, there is not a play of the Easter Triduum, for this can not be silent spectators as in the theater, but is present today the event of the Passion death and resurrection of Christ. In the history of the apostles this event - complete with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost - has changed their lives, now offers us the same opportunity. By Judas, like Peter, to children.
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