Mundi Magister, atque caeli Janitor, Romae parentes, arbitrique gentium, Per ensis ille, hic per crucis victor necem, Vitae senatum laureati possident.
Vere Sanctus es, Domine, et merito te laudat omnis a te condita creatura, quia per Filium tuum, Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Spiritus Sancti operante virtute, vivificas et sanctificas universa, et populum tibi congregare non desinis, ut a solis ortu usque ad occasum oblatio munda offeratur nomini tuo. Supplices ergo te, Domine, deprecamur, ut haec munera, quae tibi sacranda detulimus, eodem Spiritu sanctificare digneris, ut Corpus et Sanguis fiant Filii tui Domini nostri Iesu Christi, cuius mandato haec mysteria celebramus. Ipse enim in qua nocte tradebatur accepit panem et tibi gratias agens benedixit, fregit, deditque discipulis suis, dicens:
"ACCIPITE ET MANDUCATE EX HOC OMNES: HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM, QUOD PRO VOBIS TRADETUR."
Simili modo, postquam cenatum est, accipiens calicem, et tibi gratias agens benedixit, deditque discipulis suis, dicens:
"ACCIPITE ET BIBITE EX EO OMNES, HIC EST ENIM CALIX SANGUINIS MEI NOVI ET AETERNI TESTAMENTI, QUI PRO VIBIS ET PRO MULTIS EFFUNDETUR IN REMISSIONEM PECCATORIUM. HOC FACITE IN MEAM COMMEMORATIONEM."
Mysterium fidei
R: Mortem tuam annuntiamus, Domine, et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias.
A 10-minute walk from my house is the St Gregory's House - Institute of Religious Music, founded in 1979 by the late Father Geréon Goldmann, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary between 2019 and 2021, although the Corona disaster has delayed the dates. The event took place in 2019-2021. You can read an article about it in the St Gregory's House News Letter 2021, which we received yesterday.
It opened with a picture of Father Gueleon and the words "The source of the power of human activity flows from the liturgy". As soon as I saw that, I was reminded, as if it were only yesterday, of the time some 40 years ago when I attended the early morning Divine Liturgy in the small room of the cathedral, the breakfast I had after Divine Liturgy and the stories he told me. The "St Gregory's House Letter" also included an extract from Dr Wataru Mizugaki's 40th anniversary lecture, "Where are we now in the history of Christianity - between tradition and history". According to Dr Mizugaki, tradition is characterised by 'commonality, identity and constancy', while history is characterised by 'difference and change' and therefore 'individuality and diversity'. The challenge is to "rethink Christianity in the light of the tension between tradition and history, and to seek a future 'vision of Christianity' in the direction that resolves this tension". In order to meet this challenge, he concluded his speech by saying that it is necessary to rethink the 'biblical tradition'. When the 'liturgy', which is the 'source of active life' as Father Gereon called it, is combined with the 'biblical tradition that transcends denominational differences' as Professor Mizugaki said, the unchanging 'tradition (eternity)' of religion and its various forms of 'history (generation and transmigration)' will be united. I will continue my series of lectures on 'Listening to the Psalms - Studies in the Bible and Liturgy' at St Gregory's House next year, and I was able to reaffirm where the subject of these lectures lies.
Listening to the Psalms - Studies in Scripture and Liturgy Lecture Series This is a transcript of a lecture given on the day after Holy Ash Wednesday (18 February 2021) in the Department of Church Music at the Institute of Religious Music at St Gregory's House.
昭和12年1月、すでに腸結核を併発して病床にあった北條民雄は、「井の中の蛙の感想」と題する文を『山櫻」に寄稿している。この文は、前年の昭和11年8月の「長島騒擾事件」に言及して、ストライキをした患者達を「井の中の蛙」と批判した日本MTL(mission to lepra という当時の「救癩」団体)理事の塚田喜太郎の文章に対する反論である。