The Divine Mercy Novena in the context of paschal liturgy
Abstract
The Article „The Divine Mercy Novena in the context of paschal liturgy” shows links between the content of the novena and the Good Friday universal prayer and it explains on what basis it is prayed on certain concrete days. The article presents first the moment od St. Faustina’s apparitions of Jesus (March 26th, 1937) and of the writing down the novena (August 10th, 1937). Next, it depicts difficulties in the propagation of the novena and the role of Fr. Michał Sopoćko in the theological explanation of this form of prayer. The article’s second part compares the text for each day of the novena with the Good Friday universal prayer. The fact is underlined that this matter is to be seen within the context of the pre-conciliar liturgy. The third part explains the novena in the liturgical context of each day, that is, of entire paschal mystery: the Lord’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. The final conclusion shows how strictly interlinked is the novena with liturgical texts; and even though it was conceived 25 years before the Vaticanum II, it fulfills the pronouncement that pious exercises should flow out of the liturgy and lead back to it (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium 13) thanks to the identical content of both.
Keywords:
historia kultu Miłosierdzia Bożego, nowenna do Miłosierdzia Bożego, modlitwa powszechna Wielkiego Piątku, oktawa Wielkanocy, kult Miłosierdzia Bożego a liturgiaReferences
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Jacek Nowakhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5722-162X
Jacek Nowak SAC, prof. dr hab., kierownik Katedry Teologii Liturgii na Wydziale Teologicznym UKSW w Warszawie, konsultor i sekretarz Komisji ds. Kultu Bożego i Dyscypliny Sakramentów Konferencji Episkopatu Polski.
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