Joseph Ratzinger - Theology of the Liturgy
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This major volume is a collection of the writings of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) on the theology of the Liturgy of the Church, a subject of preeminence to him as a theologian, professor and spiritual writer. It brings together all his writings on the subject, short and long, giving his views on liturgical matters and questions over many years and from various perspectives.
He chose to have his writings on the Liturgy for the first volume published of his collected works (though listed as vol. 11) because, as he says in the Introduction: The liturgy of the Church has been for me since my childhood the central reality of my life, and it became the center of my theological efforts. I chose fundamental theology as my eld because I wanted rst and foremost to examine thoroughly the question: Why do we believe? But also included from the beginning in this question was the other question of the right response to God and, thus, the question of the liturgy.
By starting with the theme of liturgy in this volume, Ratzinger wants to highlight Gods primacy, the absolute precedence of the theme of God. Beginning with a focus on the liturgy, he said, tells us that God is first. He quotes from the Rule of St. Benedict, Nothing is to be preferred to the liturgy, as a way of ordering priorities for the life of the Church and of every individual. He says that the fundamental question of the man who begins to understand himself correctly is: How must I encounter God? Thus learning the right way of worshipping is the gift par excellence that is given to us by the faith.
The essential purpose of his writings on the liturgy is to place the liturgy in its larger context, which he presents in three concentric circles. First, the intrinsic interrelationship of Old and New Testament; without the connection to the Old Testament heritage, the Christian liturgy is incomprehensible. The second circle is the relationship to the religions of the world. The third circle is the cosmic character of the liturgy, which is more than the coming together of a circle of people: the liturgy is celebrated in the expanse of the cosmos, encompassing creation and history at the same time.
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Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger at the celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday in 2002 in Rome with his brother, Georg Ratzinger, choirmaster emeritus of the cathedral in Regensburg (Photo KNA).
First page of the draft of the lecture In the Presence of the Angels (see below, JRCW-II:461-79), which was presented in honor of his brother on the occasion of his retirement from the position of choirmaster at the cathedral in Regensburg.
JOSEPH RATZINGER
COLLECTED WORKS
Volume II
JOSEPH RATZINGER
COLLECTED WORKS
Edited by Gerhard Ludwig Muller
in conjunction with the
Institut Papst Benedikt XVI. in Regensburg:
Rudolf Voderholzer, Christian Schaller, Gabriel Weiten
Volume II
Theology of the Liturgy
JOSEPH RATZINGER
The Sacramental Foundation
of Christian Existence
Edited by Michael J. Miller
Translated by John Saward,
Kenneth Baker, S.J., Henry Taylor, et al .
IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
In collaboration with
LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA Original German edition:
Theologie der Liturgie: Die sakramentale Begrndung christlicher Existenz
(Gesammelte Schriften II)
2008 by Verlag Herder GmbH, Freiburg im Breisgau
Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
2014 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-58617-595-5 (PB)
ISBN 978-1-68149-730-3 (EB)
Library of Congress Control Number 2011930605
Printed in the United States of America
On the Inaugural Volume of My Collected Works
by Pope Benedict XVI
Editors Foreword
by Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mutter
PART A
THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY
1. Liturgy and Life: The Place of the Liturgy in Reality
2. LiturgyCosmosHistory
3. From Old Testament to New: The Fundamental Form of the Christian LiturgyIts Determination by Biblical Faith
1. The Relationship of the Liturgy to Time and Space: Some Preliminary Questions
2. Sacred PlacesThe Significance of the Church Building
3. The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer
4. The Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament
5. Sacred Time
1. The Question of Images
2. Music and Liturgy
1. Rite
2. The Body and the Liturgy
a. Active Participation
b. The Sign of the Cross
3. Posture
a. Kneeling / Prostratio
b. Standing and SittingLiturgy and Culture
4. Gestures
5. The Human Voice
6. Vestments
7. Matter
PART B
TYPOS-MYSTERIUM-SACRAMENTUM
1. Preliminary Considerations: The Crisis of the Sacramental Idea in Modern Consciousness
2. The Sacramental Idea in Human History
3. The Christian Sacraments
4. The Meaning of the Sacraments Today
PART C
THE CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST-SOURCE AND SUMMIT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
1. What Is the Issue Here?
2. The Theology of the Lords Day
3. Sabbath and Sunday
a. The Problem
b. The Theology of the Sabbath
c. The Christian Synthesis
4. Applications
a. Priestless Sunday Services
b. Weekend Culture and the Christian Sunday
1. Framing the Question: Luthers Concern
2. The New Testament Witness
a. The Texts
b. The Marcan Type: Old Testament Theology of Sacrifice
c. The Pauline Type: Prophetic Critique of Worship
d. The Common Center: The Idea of Vicarious Substitution
e. Making the Sacrifice Present
1. The Background to the Formulation of the Question: The Protestant Objection
a. Calvin
b. Luther
2. The Present State of the Question
a. The Philosophical Problem of Transubstantiation
b. The Theological Meaning of the Assertion
a. Of: Edward Schillebeeckx, Die eucharistische Gegenwart , 1967
b. Of: Wilhelm Averbeck, Der Opfercharakter des Abendmahts in der neueren evangetischen Theotogie , 1967
Foreword
1. The Origin of the Eucharist in the Paschal Mystery
2. The Eucharist: Heart of the Church
3. The Proper Celebration of the Holy Eucharist
4. The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharistic Sacrament
1. Problematic: The Category of Form
2. The Growth of the Church and the Development of the Eucharist
3. The Definitive Form
Postscript 1
Postscript 2
1. The Nature of the Liturgical Celebration
2. The Subjective Response to the Objective Nature of the Liturgy
1. Preliminary Thoughts about Eucharist and Mission
2. The Theology of the Cross as the Presupposition and Basis of Eucharistic Theology
3. Eucharistic Theology in the First Letter to the Corinthians
a. 1 Corinthians 5:6: The Christian Pascha
b. 1 Corinthians 6:12-19: Uniting Oneself to the Lord
c. 1 Corinthians 10:1-22: One Body with Christ, but without Any Magical Guarantee of Salvation
d. 1 Corinthians 11:17-33: The Institution of the Eucharist and the Right Way to Celebrate It
4. Martyrdom, Christian Life, and Apostolic Service as Ways of Living out the Eucharist
a. Martyrdom as a Way in Which the Christian Can Become a Eucharist
b. Worship Consistent with the LogosChristian Living as a Eucharist
c. Mission as Service in the Cosmic Liturgy
5. Concluding Reflections: The Eucharist as the Source of Mission
1. Eucharist
2. Communio
3. Solidarity
4. Perspective: The Eucharist as the Sacrament of Transformations
1. The Biblical Message about the Temple Made from Living Stones
a. Old Testament Roots
b. New Testament Fulfillment
2. What Prompted the Building of Christian Churches?
3. Consequences for Today
1. Note on the Question of the Orientation of the Celebration
2. Foreword to Uwe Michael Lang, Turning towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgicat Prayer , 2004
1. On the Question of the Adoration of the Eucharist and Its Sacredness
2. The Lord Is Near Us in Our Conscience, in His Word, in His Personal Presence in the Eucharist, on Deuteronomy 4:7
3. Standing before the LordWalking with the LordKneeling before the Lord: Celebrating Corpus Christi
Standing before the Lord
Walking with the Lord
Kneeling before the Lord
4. What Corpus Christi Means to Me: Three Meditations
PART D
THEOLOGY OF CHURCH MUSIC
1. Introduction: Some Aspects of the Postconciliar Dispute with Regard to Church Music
2. Church Music as a Theological Problem in the Work of Thomas Aquinas and in the Authorities He Cites
a. Theologys Auctoritates Question the Value of Church Music
b. Issues Underlying the Theological Critique of Music
c. The Theological Basis of Church Music
d. The Positive Significance of the Theological Critique of Music
3. Conclusion: Governing Principles in This Time of Crisis
1. Surpassing the Council? A New Conception of Liturgy
2. The Philosophical Basis of the Concept and Its Questionable Aspects
3. The Anthropological Model of the Churchs Liturgy
4. Consequences for Liturgical Music
a. Fundamentals
b. Comments on the Present Situation
5. A Final Word: Liturgy, Music, and Cosmos
1. Earthly and Heavenly Liturgy: The View of the Fathers
2. Highlighting the Postconciliar Dispute on the Liturgy
3. On the Essence of Liturgy and the Criteria of Reform
4. Foundation and Role of Music in Worship
5. Choir and Congregation: The Question of Language
6. Specific Questions: SanctusBenedictusAgnus Dei
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