silence in the sacred liturgy

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FACTUM EST SILENTIUM IN CA

The Silence of Sound in the Heavenly Liturgy

and the Sacred Liturgical Renewal


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SACRUM QUOQUE SILENTIUM SUO

TEMPORE SERVETUR.

Sacrosanctum Concil

At the proper times all should observe a reverent silence.


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SING THE MASS

AT MASSrather than

s

ing songs during Mass.

2013 Pastoral Letter Rejoice in the Lord Always

Bishop Alexander K. Sample

Diocese of Marquette, Michigan


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Verbum Domini

The

Seven

Penitential

Psalms


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BLESSED JOHN PAUL II

The Christian community must make an examination of

conscience so that the beauty of music and song willreturn increasingly to the liturgy.

Centenary of Pius Xs document, 2003.


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CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER IS HEARINGTHE WORD OF GODSILENCE IN THIS SILENCE, UNBEARABLE TO THE OUTER

THE FATHER SPEAKS TO US HIS INCARNATE WORD, WHSUFFERED, DIED, AND ROSE; IN THIS SILENCE THE SPIRITADOPTION ENABLES US TO SHARE IN THE PRAYER OF JES

Catechism of the Catholic Church


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THE SPIRIT OF THELITURGY

If prayer in common, therefore, is to prove beneficial

to the majority, it must be primarily directed by

thought, and not by feeling. It is only when prayer is

sustained by and steeped in clear and fruitful religious

thought, that it can be of service to a corporate body,

composed of distinct elements, all actuated by varying

emotions.

Romano Guardini (188


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SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS

Active participation in the Eucharistic liturgy can hardly be expected if one app

superficially, without an examination of his or her life.

This inner disposition can be fostered, for example, by recollection and silence for

moments before the beginning of the liturgy.

Pope Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis, 55


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Gregorian Chant


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The soul must learn to abandon, at least

prayer, the restlessness of purposeful

activity; it must learn to waste time for t

sake of God, and to be prepared for the

sacred game with sayings and thoughts

gestures, without always immediately as

why? and wherefore?. It must learn no

be continually yearning to do something

attack something, to accomplish someth

useful, but to play the divinely ordained

game of the liturgy in liberty and beaut

holy joy before God.

- Guardini


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Even before the celebration itself, it is commendable that

silence be observed in the church, in the sacristy,

in the vesting room, and in adjacent areas, so that all may

dispose themselves to carry out the sacred action in a

devout and fitting manner.General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 2011 45


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PROCESSIONENTRANCE, GOSPEL, OFFERTORY, COMMUNION, RECESSIONAL


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THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY

We are realizing more and more clearly that silence is part of

the liturgy. We respond, by singing and praying, to the God

who addressed us, but the greater mystery, surpassing all

words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence

with content, not just the absence of speech and action. We

should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that

will restore us.Pope Benedict XVI, The Spirit of the Liturgy. Ignatius Press, 2000. p. 209


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GENERAL INSTRUCTION OF THE ROMAN MI

ON LITURGICAL SILENCE

78.

The Eucharistic Prayer requires

that everybody listens to it with

reverence and and in silence.

84.

The Priest prepares himself by a

prayer, said quietly, so that he

may fruitfully receive the Body

and Blood of Christ. The faithful

do the same, praying silently.

54

The Priest calls up

to pray and every

with the Priest, ob

silence so that the

aware of beinpresence and ma

their inte


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SACRED POLYPHONYCHORAL MUSIC INVOKES INTERIOR SILENCE


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PRESIDENTIAL PRAYERS

Collect

Super Oblata

Post-Communion

Vox Secreta / Vox Clara


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True liturgy, the liturgy of the communion of saints, gives man once again

completeness. It instructs him once again in silence and in singing by ope

for him the depths of the sea and by teaching him to fly the existence o

angels. By lifting up the heart; true liturgy allows the buried song to reso

man once again. Indeed, we could now actually say that true liturgy can

recognized by the fact that it liberates from everyday activity and restoresboth the depths and the heights: silence and singing. True liturgy is recogn

because it is cosmic and not limited to a group. True liturgy sings with the a

and true liturgy is silent with the expectant depths of the universe.

And thus true liturgy redeems the earth.

Cardinal Ratzinger, Litu

Church Music, 1985

TRUE LITURGY


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Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette

Dioceseofmarquette.org/sacredmusic

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