Listen to the Word: Commentaries on selected Opening Prayers of Sunday and Feasts with Sample HOmilies  Documenta Rerum Ecclesiasticarum Instaurata (Corpus « DREI »)  Varia Appreciating the Liturgy
 
 
First aim Scientific Publication Listen to the Word Commentaries on selected Opening Prayers of Sundays and Feasts with Sample Homilies by: Daniel P. McCarthy with two sample homilies by: James G. Leachman  INTRODUCTION The opening prayer or collect has received little notice in the reform of the liturgy, although the scholarship behind it is as solid as its tradition is broad and profound. This brief prayer beguiles with brevity and apparent simplicity, and we too easily shy away from the rewarding harvest of encountering this prayer in its mature abundance and gleaning the fruit in its proclamation. The length of an average opening prayer is four short lines, recited in about ten seconds. If we want the assembly to make the prayer its own, then more time and attention must be given to its effective proclamation. I have found that understanding the literary structure of the prayer is helpful, so that as the prayer unfolds the assembly may make the prayer its own in the hearing. This book offers a thorough revision of the commentaries first presented in The Tablet from March 2006 - September 2007. The translations have been submitted to the review of Rev. Reginald Foster. The book has been augmented with images from the ambo of Santa Sabina, Rome, with explanations. CONTENTS Preface Rt Rev. John Flack Foreword Canon Alan Griffiths Introductory Material Valuing the Opening Prayer Literary Genre of an Opening Prayer Performative Stages of an Opening Prayer Commentaries Advent: 4 Commentaries Christmas: 3 Commentaries Lent: 6 Commentaries Triduum: 3 Commentaries Easter: 8 Commentaries Ordinary Time: 29 Commentaries Feasts: 6 Commentaries Total: 52 Commentaries Five Sample Homilies: Preaching from the Prayer Recovering what was lost Homily on the opening prayer of the Fifth Sunday of Easter by James G. Leachman OSB By mutual participation Homily on the opening prayer of the Sixth Sunday of Easter by Daniel P. McCarthy OSB How to Serve Better, Not How Better to be Served Homily on the Prayer over the Gifts of the Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time by James G. Leachman OSB Liturgy – Our Offering Homily on the Prayer over the Gifts of the Fourth Sunday of Advent by Daniel P. McCarthy OSB To Mutual Self-gift through Service Homily on the Prayer over the Gifts of the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity by Daniel P. McCarthy OSB Scriptural Index Names Index Bibliography TARGET AUDIENCE You will learn: ♣ How to pray with the church ♣ How to preach from the liturgy ♣ How to compose personal prayers You will understand: ♣ How the prayers were revised ♣ The intentions behind the liturgical renewal ♣ The living Latin language of the prayers ♣ The interpretation of the prayers as taught at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy You will discover: ♣ The sources of the prayers ♣ How the liturgy developed in history ♣ How the prayers are constructed ♣ The sources of prayers used ecumenically You will be prepared: ♣ to better appreciate your own prayer life ♣ to engage more fruitfully in Lectio divina ♣ to use the new translations due c. 2011 ♣ to teach Latin from the prayer of the church You will move beyond: ♣ The building blocks to consider the larger structures of the prayers You will appreciate: ♣ The difficulty of translating liturgical texts ♣ The living history of liturgical prayer LECTIO DIVINA: PRAYERFUL READING Enrich your Lectio divina or prayerful reading by developing your prayer and seeing the scripture within: • Lectio: The proclamation of the scriptures • Meditatio: Silence after each reading, the homily • Oratio: Prayerful response to the readings in the Psalm and prayers of the assembly • Contemplatio: Appreciation of the dialogue PREACHING FROM THE PRAYER To limit preaching and reflection to the scriptures omits the Church’s response to the scriptures preserved in these short prayers as much as 1,600 years old. Including the prayers in preaching and reflection further inspires our response to the scriptures. PURCHASING The volume is available directly from The Tablet in conjunction with Redemptorist Publications. Click here. From the USA order direct from Redemptorist Publications or from St. Benedict’s Abbey Gift Shop 1020 N 2nd St Atchison, KS 66002 AUTHORS Fr Daniel P. McCarthy OSB, is a monk of St Benedict’s Abbey, Atchison, Kansas. Having just completed his doctorate at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, he now teaches and writes in Rome. He is the author of two series of weekly commentaries published in The Tablet, one on the collects (2006-2007), the other on the prayers over the gifts (2007-2008). He is co-director of the DREI project and co-editor of the series Liturgiam Aestimare : Appreciating the Liturgy. Fr James G. Leachman OSB is a monk of St Benedict’s Abbey, Ealing, London, who teaches and writes at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Rome. He is assistant editor of Ecclesia Orans, co-director of the DREI project and co-editor of the series Liturgiam Aestimare : Appreciating the Liturgy. He writes on the Liturgy of the Church of England and the theology of Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. He edited the volume The Liturgical Subject: Subject, Subjectivity and the Human Person in Contemporary Liturgical Discussion and Critique. Book Reviews Ashley Beck, “Book review”, New Diaconal Review 2 (May 2009) 48. The European Society for Catholic Theology, ET Newsletter (13 July 2009). William C. Graham, Celebration: A Comprehensive Worship Resource, 38:8 (August 2009) 5. 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Photos from the volume Left, from the cover of the book Mary, standing with hands upraised as the Church at prayer. Detail from the book cover from the Redemptoris Mater chapel in the papal apartments. Photo by Aurelio and Francesca Amendola, in © La Cappella Redemptoris Mater, Liberia editrice Vaticana, Mosaic by Marco Ivan Rupnik SJ The interior of the book features fourteen original photos of the ambo in the fourth century basilica of Santa Sabina on the Aventine. Below: an ecclesial image of the vine and the branches. Christians are ones who have been signed with the cross of Christ.