THE EXERCISE OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN THINGS LITURGICAL Note: This conference was given du:r>ing the cou:r>se of Litu:rgie et Monases the recent meeting of the group at Mortefontaine. The generai theme of the meeting, which provides the context for this ence, was "The Community and its Liturgy in the Life of the porar>y Chu:r>ch ". -- -- -------------------- - --- - -- - --- - - --- - - ---- - When one thinks about it, one readily preceives to what an extent many, if not all, have to responsible roles carry out in the celebration of the liturgy. to a general rule, this is of ever:y "celebrant-asserrbly": each one, acoording his As true to particular role, shares the responsibility f or that particular celebration. We have own admit, ho.vever , that the ooncrete situation dif f ers f ran place to place. The poor parish priest, for stance, scnetimes f inds himself f aced with a congregation 50% to 90% of those "assisting" in which are present chief ly "to their Sunday duty , do to fulf ill the Sunday obligation". this situation , the priest has a harder time In of it he would in our assanblies, where, we might well hope, there than own 's no one assists in a purely passive manner. At least, this is what ought to hope who we • • • regards our situation, our assanblies are rrore restricted as a general rule, As own and are of -and this is irrportant - ple who already each other. The made up know preparation of our celebrations has already entrusted, not just one person (as is of ten the case with the pastor in his been to own parish) but several, and even - ideally - ·a si zable number of the brethren. In to to our celebrations, various functions are distributed between a nurrt>er of participants, and the a:mnunity in each ber of the can take his perfomd.ng this or that lar tum function.
THE EXERCISE OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN THINGS LITURGICAL Note: This conference was given du:r>ing the cou:r>se of the recent meeting of the group Litu:rgie et Monases at Mortefontaine. The generai theme of the meeting, which provides the context for this ence, was "The Community and its Liturgy in the Life of the porar>y Chu:r>ch ". -- -- -------------------- - --- - -- - --- - - --- - - ---- - When one thinks about it, one readily preceives to what an extent many, if not all, have responsible roles to carry out in the celebration of the liturgy. As a general rule, this is true of ever:y "celebrant-asserrbly": each one, acoording to his own particular role, shares the responsibility f or that particular celebration. We have to admit, ho.vever , that the ooncrete situation dif f ers f ran place to place. The poor parish priest, for stance, scnetimes f inds himself f aced with a congregation in which 50% to 90% of those "assisting" are present chief ly "to do their Sunday duty , to fulf ill the Sunday obligation". In this situation , the priest has a harder time of it than he would in our own assanblies, where, we might well hope, there 's no one who assists in a purely passive manner. At least, this is what we ought to hope • • • As regards our own situation, our assanblies are rrore restricted as a general rule, and are made up of -and this is irrportant - ple who already know each other. The preparation of our celebrations has already been entrusted, not just to one person (as is of ten the case with the pastor in his own parish) but to several, and even - ideally - to ·a si zable number of the brethren. In our celebrations, the various functions are distributed between a nurrt>er of participants, and each ber of the a:mnunity can take his tum in perfomd.ng this or that lar function.
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