Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 78 No. 2, 2008.
Original scientific paper
The Liturgy - a Place for Togetherness or a Reason for Disunity in the Parish? The Relationship of Church Movements Towards Church Liturgy
Ivica Žižić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Abstract
One of the key problems of the modern 'Liturgical issue' is the fact that the Roman rite is 'pluralised' resulting in the sacramentally based factual fragmentation of Church unity on a sacramental foundation and attempts to integrate it on other foundations. That phenomenon marks a growth proportional to the strengthening of Church movements. In search of valid criteria and authentic conditions to base critical relations towards 'ritual pluralism', the article questions the possibility of correction and integration of the 'search for togetherness' in Church movements. This serves as the basis to analyse the physiognomy of the 'Liturgical community' by Church movements in contrast to normative theological-liturgical principles. Making the Church more serious as a sacrament of unity (cf. SC 26) in its liturgical origin demands a renewed evaluation of the sacramental and so the ritual basis of Church mediation in which spirit Church movements are called on to revive the 'agape', 'prophetic' and 'evangelisational' dimension of parish Liturgical communities.
Keywords
The Liturgy; community; togetherness; ritual; ritual pluralism; Church movements
Hrčak ID:
28234
URI
Publication date:
12.8.2008.
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