Hermeneutyka liturgii

Abstract

Liturgical hermeneutics aims at defining the theological sense of the liturgical text and applying its mystagogical quality to celebration of Christ’s mystery. Its operational rules are closest to the biblical hermeneutics with which it shares biblical texts or the liturgical songs and euchological formulas that are inspired by them. Such authors as A. M. Triacca, M. Augé, E. M. Vismara, R. Farina, M. Sodi and others suggest using a historical-critical, etiological and structural analysis when reading liturgical texts. In the latter kind of analysis they also distinguish liturgical-contextual, linguistic-communicative and interpretative Ones. All this is supposed to facilitate showing the way in which liturgical texts promote the rule of lex credendi and lex orandi in the celebrated mystery of the life of the Church.