few days ago, blog di Sandro Magister, I found this posting on liturgical questions held by Bishop Athanasius Schneider. The particular child but, I think, significant, says near the end when Schneider comes out against abuses such as the "celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the mode 'of a closed circle in which priest and people constantly watching each other in the face". This practice, according to the bishop, should be refused (to return to the priest from 'back to the faithful),' cause "the practice that contradicts Jesus' and His Apostles observed both in the public prayer in the temple and the synagogue."
The invention of tradition and 'serious business and just read a bit' of Irenaeus or Tertullian had to understand that those big clear how the operation will work only if based on mere apodictic and absolute (Even so, 'however, there are risks, as evidenced by the personal story of Tertullian). Now, times are a bit 'changed and certain strategies may also be broken' so 'good (in most' in this case, Schneider has the problem that what he wants chimeras "tradition" in undisputed reality 'has been contradicted by the last three or four Popes, that the same should be the chief custodians).
At this point, which is Schneider? The throw from an historical perspective that should come to the aid of the theology in trouble '. This and 'the practice observed by Jesus' itself (and the apostles)?
E ' difficult to see how Schneider comes to this conclusion about the temple in Jerusalem, however, it appears that the altar was the center of a courtyard, and then it would not be weird to imagine that the participants in the rituals were in a circle. Fortunately, we are better placed with regard to the synagogues, so we have many archaeological findings. To be brief, I take just two examples. The first photo of this post and 'a glimpse of the beautiful frescoes of Dura Europos synagogue (third century): the building has a stone bench running along all four walls. E 'we may conclude that the faithful were in a circle. The second photo and 'one of the synagogue at Gamla (perhaps the first century before our era), and that' probably the synagogue more 'old dug in the Land of Israel to this day. As you can see, the room has four steps that served as benches and run along all sides: the conclusion, 'the same.
I do not want to say that this was the structure of all the synagogues in the time of Jesus ': just browse the extensive book of Lee Levine, "The Ancient Synagogue," to see how great the variety'. In addition 'there should be benches or mats on which people sat or squatted and which have not survived.
The point 'that just a little historical research' seriously can not 'which problematize the reckless assertion of Schneider. It would be appropriate to simply say that the liturgy must be made in a certain way because ', for revelation, si sa che questa e' "l'unica, autentica pratica" e smetterla di torturare la storia per farla entrare nel letto di Procuste di quella che puo' essere solo teologia.
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