Tuesday, September 3, 2013
559. In the Church are there different ways of praying?
(Comp 559) In the Church there are
various ways of praying that are tied to different historical, social and
cultural contexts. The Magisterium of the Church has the task of discerning the
fidelity of these ways of praying to the tradition of apostolic faith. It is
for pastors and catechists to explain their meaning which is always related to
Jesus Christ.
“In brief”
(CCC 1208) The diverse liturgical
traditions or rites, legitimately recognized, manifest the catholicity of the
Church, because they signify and communicate the same mystery of Christ.
To deepen and explain
(CCC 2663) In the living tradition of prayer, each Church
proposes to its faithful, according to its historic, social, and cultural
context, a language for prayer: words, melodies, gestures, iconography. The
Magisterium of the Church (Cf. DV 10) has the task of discerning the fidelity
of these ways of praying to the tradition of apostolic faith; it is for pastors
and catechists to explain their meaning, always in relation to Jesus Christ.
Reflection
(CCC 1201) The mystery of Christ
is so unfathomably rich that it cannot be exhausted by its expression in any
single liturgical tradition. The history of the blossoming and development of
these rites witnesses to a remarkable complementarity. When the Churches lived
their respective liturgical traditions in the communion of the faith and the
sacraments of the faith, they enriched one another and grew in fidelity to
Tradition and to the common mission of the whole Church (Cf. Paul VI, EN
63-64).
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