I foredraget til Roma bispedømme, som jeg har nevnt et par ganger før, sier også pave Benedikt noe om hvor viktig det er at messen feires verdig og vakkert – siden den hjelper oss å forstå Kristi frelsesmysterium:
The centre of the life of the parish is, as I said, the Eucharist, and especially the Sunday celebration. If the unity of the Church is born from the encounter with the Lord, it is not secondary then that the adoration and the celebration of the Eucharist be very elegant, giving way to who participates in it to experience the beauty of the mystery of Christ. Since the beauty of the liturgy «is not mere aestheticism, but the concrete way in which the truth of God’s love in Christ encounters us, attracts us and delights us» (Sacramentum Caritatis n. 35), it is important that the Eucharistic celebration manifests, communicates through the sacramental signs, the divine life and reveals to men and women of this city the true face of the Church.
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