The article presents the history of pontificals, which are a bishop's liturgical books, beginning with their creation in the 9th century till the 16th century. The following pontificals are analysed in detail: Roman-Germanic Pontifical of the 10th century, Roman Pontifical of the 12th century, Roman Curia Pontifical of the 13th century and William Durand's Pontifical of the 13th century. In the article the process of geographical spreading of pontificals was also demonstrated. The history of pontificals shows how liturgical traditions were spreading and mixing with each other: Roman tradition came into contact with the tradition from the Frankish countries, and from the Frankish countries it was transferred to Rhenish countries. There the pontifical was modified and came back to Rome. In this form, thanks to the invention of printing, it spread in the whole Church.
Niniejszy artykuł stanowi analizę teologiczną obrzędów święceń prezbiteratu z Pontyfikału Rzymskiego z 1968 r. Badania skoncentrowały się najpierw na wskazaniu tematów biblijnych obecnych w proponowanych przez Pontyfikał czytań obrzędowych. Następnie analiza skupiła się na głównych elementach teologicznych obecnych w euchologii obrzędów święceń. W ostatniej części ukazana została wymowa teologiczna najważniejszych gestów związanych z udzielaniem sakramentu święceń w stopniu prezbitera. Przeprowadzone studium ukazuje bogactwo teologiczne zawarte w pierwszej posoborowej księdze liturgicznej, która poddana późniejszej redakcji, stała się podstawą współczesnych obrzędów święceń, a przez to również postrzegania teologii kapłaństwa. Jedną z charakterystycznych cech posoborowej redakcji jest szczególne dowartościowanie w nich elementów eklezjologicznych.
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The paper consists of an analysis of the Rite of Ordination to the Presbyterate in the Roman Pontifical after the Second Vatican Council. Firstly, the researched focused on the biblical topics in the lectures prescribed for the celebration. Secondly the analysis concerned the main theological elements incorporated in the euchology of the rite of ordination. In the last part of the paper the author tried to show the theological meaning of some liturgical gestures connected with the Rite of Ordination to the Presbyterate. The study shows the richness of theology of the elaborated rite. One of the most important characteristics of the post-conciliar redaction is the appreciation of the ecclesiological elements of the rite.
The purpose of the article is to share the reflection about the minister of the sacrament of confirmation in light of two binding liturgical books: the Pontifical “Ordo Confirmationis”, the Ritual “Ordo initiationis christianae adultorum” and the Code of Canon Law of 1983. The sacrament of confirmation is usually administered by the bishop, however he isn’t the only minister of this sacrament, since a presbyter may be authorised by the bishop to administer this sacrament as well. Although the Constitution “Lumen gentium”, no 26 defines bishops as appropriate ministers of confirmation (ministri originarii confirmationis) by introducing this new term to terminology, the legislator of the Code calls the bishop an ordinary minister (minister ordinarius), applying the term used in the Church since the church council in Florence. Most canonists share the opinion that the term “ordinary minister”, which is traditionally and historically justified, seems to be more capacious and comprises the church council term “minister originarius”. Here in turn the meaning of the latter one is emphasized by theologians, according to whom the church council by using this new term brings out the truth that the intervention of the bishop in the sacrament of confirmation is the extension of the event of Paschal Pentecost. In this perspective the person of bishop who administers the sacrament of confirmation becomes a connection with Pentecostal Church, a guarantee of Church unity. Due to his presence and service confirmands have stronger feeling of connection with their own diocese and with the universal Church. According to the binding doctrine and the law of universal Church, the sacrament of confirmation is administered legally by presbyters. In Roman Pontifical and in the Code of Canon Law of 1983 an extension of presbyters’ rights can be noticed in terms of administering the sacrament of confirmation in light of the rules which were previously binding.
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