Testimonial to Volume VIII: Worship & Sacraments
Preface to Volume VIII
The number of documents presented here, and the wealth of doctrinal and pastoral guidelines they contain, illustrate the importance the Church attaches to our personal and social relationships with God in prayer.
It is Christ, through His Holy Spirit, who gives the Sacraments their innate and special power to produce sanctifying grace, to introduce and renovate us in spiritual life, and also to procure for us the diverse sacramental graces required to respond in a Christian manner to our different functions and needs.
Worship and the Liturgy of the Sacraments have been, throughout the centuries, the object of a significant proportion of the interventions of the Magisterium.
The merit of the present Volume of the Précis is to give us a judicious and substantial selection of texts sufficient to know the decisions and the mind of the Pastors “Christ has established over us to look after our souls.”
This very important volume continues the valued service which CCSP is rendering to the church, and to all of us who cherish the teaching of the Church, by publishing these superb volumes on its Official Teachings.
Edouard Cardinal Gagnon
President, Pontifical Commission for International Eucharistic Congresses
Edouard Cardinal Gagnon
Édouard Gagnon, PSS, OC (15 January 1918 – 25 August 2007) was a Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for the Family for 16 years, from 1974 to 1990. He became a cardinal on 25 May 1985.
Cardinal Gagnon lectured at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. The Edouard Cardinal Gagnon Professorship of Fundamental Theology was created at the Institute by the Knights of Columbus in honorable memory of Cardinal Gagnon.
Lectio Divina Cordis
Divine Reading of the Heart
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HEAR the words as you inwardly read or speak
LECTIO
– Read –
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ENTER the silence to reflect on a core precept
MEDITATIO
– Meditate –
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ANSWER to the knock at the heart’s door
ORATIO
– Speak –
R
REST silently without words or thoughts
CONTEMPLATIO
– Contemplate –
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TRUST: “Do not let your HEART be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” (John 13:1)
CREDE FORMULAE
– Trust in the process –
Lectio Divina (Latin for “Divine Reading”) is a traditional Benedictine practice of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God’s Word. It does not treat scripture as texts to be studied, but as the living word.
The focus of Lectio Divina is not a theological analysis of biblical passages but viewing them with Christ as the key to their meaning.
Approaching the Magisterium Summaries from this perspective may lead to a deeper appreciation of its meaning and an appreciation of how it may be applied to one’s life.
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