Resurrecting the ambo Part 2: monument of paschal memory and eschatological hope

Fergus Michael Timothy Ryan

doi:10.25167/ls.4806

Published: 2022-12-28

Vol. 60 No. 2 (2022)

Resurrecting the ambo Part 2

Fergus Michael Timothy Ryan

Liturgia Sacra. Liturgia - Musica - Ars

Section: Liturgia

https://doi.org/10.25167/ls.4806

monument of paschal memory and eschatological hope

Abstract

Renewed emphasis on the significance of the ambo on the part of the Roman dicastery for divine worship appeared in the context of the Roman rite in the late 1980s and once again in the Jubilee year 2000 but seems to have been overlooked in the vast majority of local churches. The author reviews what he considers to be a gradual restoration of the ambo to its medieval heyday while seeing that same restoration as central in placing the celebration of Christ’s paschal mystery at the heart of the liturgy renewed after Vatican II.