The Liturgy: A Play of Priest, Congregation, and Ritual

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Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 29 May 2005

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On this feast of Corpus Christi, I would like to reflect on the sacred liturgy, the central prayer of the Church. According to Msgr. Francis Mannion, good liturgy is the result of a balanced play between priest, people, and rite. When the first becomes exaggerated, we find the clerical abuse of the liturgy; when the second is overstressed, we encounter the congregationalist abuse; and when the third is exaggerated, we have the ritualistic problem. What counts is the balance!

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0:06.8	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:11.0	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on fire.
0:17.6	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on fire, which is God's
0:21.9	Word of Love for each of us.
0:24.2	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, clearly might speak with
0:29.2	love about the one who is love.
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0:37.4	the Word on fire.
0:38.8	Peace be with you.
0:40.6	Friends, today is the feast of Corpus Christi, the feast of the body and blood of the Lord.
0:46.1	This is, of course, the year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by John Paul II, now reigned over
0:50.8	by Benedict XVI.
0:54.1	What's the proper context for the Eucharist, what's the setting for it, is the great prayer
0:59.8	which is the liturgy.
1:01.6	I want to take advantage of this feast to discuss with you the liturgy of the church, this
1:06.4	central prayer that Vatican II referred to as the source and summit of the Christian life,
1:13.2	that from which the Christian life flows, that to which it tends.
1:17.7	The liturgy in a way is everything.
1:20.1	You know, the 20th century, this past century, was in many ways theologically the century
1:25.7	of the liturgy.
1:27.9	Some of the finest minds in European theology gave themselves to a study of liturgy.
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