Tanker om bibellesningene i messen
To prester – by Rev Nicola Bux and Rev Salvatore Vitiello – skrev nylig på fides.org, om bruk av bibeltekster i messen i den gamle og nye liturgien. Det er tydelig at den nye messen bruker en mye større del av Bibelen i søndags- og ukemessene. Men det er ikke sikkert at forandringene bare har vært positive – bl.a. ble en over 1500 år gammel tradisjon helt forkasta i 1969. Og det er nå (i alle fall i det alminnelige kirkeår) lite samsvar mellom messens bønner, inngangsvers o.a. og bibeltekstene. Slik leser vi i artikkelen i engelsk oversettelse:
Some say the post-Council Mass is richer in Readings and Eucharistic Prayers, compared with the Pius V Missal poorer and less accurate. The theory is anachronistic since it fails to consider four centuries of distance; it is as if we were to say the same about Sacramentaries some centuries earlier than the sacramentary of Pius V. What is more there is a tendency to forget that the pericopes of the Pius V Missal were formed on the basis of old capitularies with epistles, such as St Jerome’s Liber comitis– dated 471 – or with Gospel pericopes ; a tradition in common with the Church of the East, as the Byzantine liturgy still shows today.
Secondly, the brief readings help memorise the essential and express the sobriety of the Roman Rite. …
Father Z har (selvsagt) også kommentert dette, og i kommentarene til hans post har Fr. Augustine Thompson O.P. skrevet denne svært interessante vurderinga:
1. Although I think the old one year cycle should certainly be the norm at EF There is nothing wrong with a three year cycle for Mass, even for use with the EF: BUT
1. Three readings are too many for anything but a night vigil
2. The Epistles are lectio continua and it is only accidental if they have anything to do with the other two
3. The division of the 3 years by Gospels is arbitrary and produces problems of selection
4. There little or no attempt to match the propers with the readings – esp. in Ordinary time.
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