Realize What You Do!

New book:

 

Reichert, Jean-Claude. Réalisez ce que vous faites: Les rites de la Messe au regard de la letter aux Hébreux. Paris: Cerf, 2022.

 

"Why do we observe today a certain disaffection with regard to the celebration of rites? Because it is difficult to inhabit them, because of their prescribed character and the formalism attributed to them. To restore to the ritual gestures of a celebration of the mass all their density, Jean-Claude Reichert puts them in correspondence with significant passages of the preaching of Christ that the letter to the Hebrews deploys. The challenge is to receive from this biblical reading enough to rediscover the acts of faith in which we are invited to participate, by signing ourselves, by saying the Kyrie eleison or the Agnus Dei, by acclaiming the Word of God, by uniting ourselves to the prayers of the priest, singing the Glory to God or anamnesis. The eight chapters of this work thus constitute eight concrete examples of an approach that the Council promotes when it underlines that 'in the celebration of the liturgy, Sacred Scripture has an extreme importance' (Sacrosanctum Concilium 24). A substantial and luminous contribution to a little explored field."