The
Pope explained how, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "we read that
the word 'liturgy' originally meant a 'service in the name of/on behalf of the
people'. If Christian theology took this word from the Greek, clearly it did so
thinking of the new People of God, born of Christ Who opened His arms on the
Cross to unite mankind in the one peace of God; 'service in the name of the
people', a people which exists not of itself but which has come into being
thanks to the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ".
The
Pope referred to a particular moment in which the: the celebrant's invitation
before the Eucharistic prayer: "sursum corda", meaning
"let us lift up our hearts"; lift them up, that is, "out of the
mire of our concerns and desires, our worries and our distraction. Our hearts,
the most intimate part of us, must open meekly to the Word of God and join the
prayer of the Church, in order to be oriented towards God by the very words we
hear and pronounce".
"We
celebrate and experience the liturgy well", the Pope concluded, "only
if we maintain an attitude of prayer, uniting ourselves to the mystery of
Christ and to His dialogue of a Son with His Father. God Himself teaches us to
pray. ... He has given us the right words with which to address Him, words we
find in the Psalter, in the great prayers of sacred liturgy and in the
Eucharistic celebration itself. Let us pray to the Lord that we may become
increasingly aware of the fact that the liturgy is the action of God and of
man; a prayer that arises from the Holy Spirit and from us; entirely addressed
to the Father in union with the Son of God made man".
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