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I received an email from paxbook.com listing their new books including:
“Compendium Eucharisticum
Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum
Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 19 ottobre 2009
18x25 cm”
paxbook.com/algorithmiS/servusPrimus?iussum=monstraScriptumEditum&numerus=31908 "
In the 2007 Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramental Caritatis” Pope Benedict wrote:
“**The usefulness of a Eucharistic Compendium **
93. At the conclusion of these reflections, in which I have taken up a number of themes
raised at the Synod, I also wish to accept the proposal which the Synod Fathers advanced as
a means of helping the Christian people to believe, celebrate and live ever more fully the
mystery of the Eucharist. The competent offices of the Roman Curia will publish a
Compendium which will assemble texts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
prayers, explanations of the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Missal and other useful aids
for a correct understanding, celebration and adoration of the Sacrament of the Altar (footnote 251: Cf. Propositio 17.). It
is my hope that this book will help make the memorial of the Passover of the Lord
increasingly the source and summit of the Church’s life and mission. This will encourage
each member of the faithful to make his or her life a true act of spiritual worship.”
The footnote refers to Proposition 17, (which Zenit translated at zenit.org/article-14396?l=english ):
"Compendium on the Eucharist
The competent departments of the Holy See and/or of the episcopal conferences should consider a Eucharistic Compendium project, or an instrument of pastoral aid that brings together, at the same time, liturgical, doctrinal, catechetical and devotional elements on the Eucharist, to help develop faith and Eucharistic piety.
This compendium could propose the best of patristic teaching, the experience of the Latin Church and of the Eastern Churches, and devotional prayers. It should include an appropriate catechesis on the nature and structure of Eucharistic prayers."
In the 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum it had, in n. 2:
“It is not at all the intention here to prepare a compendium of the norms regarding the Most
Holy Eucharist, but rather, to take up within this Instruction some elements of liturgical
norms that have been previously expounded or laid down and even today remain in force in
order to assure a deeper appreciation of the liturgical norms;[9] to establish certain norms by
which those earlier ones are explained and complemented; and also to set forth for Bishops,
as well as for Priests, Deacons and all the lay Christian faithful, how each should carry them
out in accordance with his own responsibilities and the means at his disposal.”
So I am interested to find out whether this new book is about liturgical laws or whether it is a catechism about the Eucharist.
“Compendium Eucharisticum
Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum
Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 19 ottobre 2009
18x25 cm”
paxbook.com/algorithmiS/servusPrimus?iussum=monstraScriptumEditum&numerus=31908 "
In the 2007 Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramental Caritatis” Pope Benedict wrote:
“**The usefulness of a Eucharistic Compendium **
93. At the conclusion of these reflections, in which I have taken up a number of themes
raised at the Synod, I also wish to accept the proposal which the Synod Fathers advanced as
a means of helping the Christian people to believe, celebrate and live ever more fully the
mystery of the Eucharist. The competent offices of the Roman Curia will publish a
Compendium which will assemble texts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
prayers, explanations of the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Missal and other useful aids
for a correct understanding, celebration and adoration of the Sacrament of the Altar (footnote 251: Cf. Propositio 17.). It
is my hope that this book will help make the memorial of the Passover of the Lord
increasingly the source and summit of the Church’s life and mission. This will encourage
each member of the faithful to make his or her life a true act of spiritual worship.”
The footnote refers to Proposition 17, (which Zenit translated at zenit.org/article-14396?l=english ):
"Compendium on the Eucharist
The competent departments of the Holy See and/or of the episcopal conferences should consider a Eucharistic Compendium project, or an instrument of pastoral aid that brings together, at the same time, liturgical, doctrinal, catechetical and devotional elements on the Eucharist, to help develop faith and Eucharistic piety.
This compendium could propose the best of patristic teaching, the experience of the Latin Church and of the Eastern Churches, and devotional prayers. It should include an appropriate catechesis on the nature and structure of Eucharistic prayers."
In the 2004 Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum it had, in n. 2:
“It is not at all the intention here to prepare a compendium of the norms regarding the Most
Holy Eucharist, but rather, to take up within this Instruction some elements of liturgical
norms that have been previously expounded or laid down and even today remain in force in
order to assure a deeper appreciation of the liturgical norms;[9] to establish certain norms by
which those earlier ones are explained and complemented; and also to set forth for Bishops,
as well as for Priests, Deacons and all the lay Christian faithful, how each should carry them
out in accordance with his own responsibilities and the means at his disposal.”
So I am interested to find out whether this new book is about liturgical laws or whether it is a catechism about the Eucharist.
