Vorlage:1963 Rezensionen Vom Geist der Liturgie

• [1963-000] [Englisch] Nathan A. Scott: Society and the Self in Recent American Literature, in: Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 19, 1963 (Mai 1963), S. 377 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Artikel] - https://books.google.de/books?id=aOEWAAAAIAAJ;
  • [1964-000a] auch in: The Search for Identity: Essays on the American Character, hrsg. von Roger Lincoln Shinn im Auftrag des Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Institute for Religious and Social Studies, 1964, S. 100 f. [neu aufgenommen] – [Artikel] - https://books.google.de/books?id=8H52AAAAMAAJ; zu Romano Guardini:
  • 1963, S. 377 f./1964, S. 100 f.: „In his famous little book, The Spirit of the Liturgy, there is a chapter in which Romano Guardini asks us to think of the Church's liturgy as a kind of play, as a kind of sacred game. He is of course aware that this is a perspective that will be offensive to those grave and earnest rationalists in the Church for whom every aspect of its life must have a moral purpose: they will be quick to suppose that to view the liturgy in this way is to reduce it to a mere theatrical trifle, and they will therefore want to insist that the Church's liturgical actions are channels of grace and serve the indispensable purpose of the soul's renewal and edification. But, in his sprightly wisdom, Msgr. Guardini denies that the liturgy is informed by "the austere guidance of the sense of purpose."[1 Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy, trans. Ada Lane, Sheed and Ward, 1937, p. 92.] The prayers, the gestures, the garments, the colors, the holy vessels, the complicated arrangements of the calendar - all this, he asserts, is simply "incomprehensible when measured by the objective standard of strict suitability for a purpose."[2 Ibid., pp. 95-96.] For the liturgy, in quite the same way as a child's play, has no purpose. "The child, when it plays," says Msgr. Guardini, "does not aim at anything. It has no purpose. It does not want to do anything but to exercise its youthful powers, [to] pour forth its life in an aimless series of movements, words and actions all of which is purposeless, but full of meaning nevertheless. That is what play means; it is life, pouring itself forth without an aim ...."[3 Ibid., pp. 98-99.] And, similarly, the liturgy "speaks measuredly and melodiously employs formal, rhythmic gestures ... is clothed in colours and garments foreign to everyday life ... is carried out in places and at hours which have been co-ordinated and systematised. ... It is in the highest sense the life of a child, in which everything is picture, melody and song."[Ibid., pp. 101-102.] It is a pouring forth of "the sacred, God-given life of the soul":[5 Ibid., p. 104.] it is a kind of holy play in which the soul, with utter abandon, learns how „to waste time for the sake of God.“[6 Ibid., p. 106.] The liturgy is, in short – and Msgr. Guardini is aware of the implication here – the liturgy is, in short, a form of art.“