A liturgia das horas: oração do povo de Deus tutelada pelos cânones 1173-1175 do Código de Direito Canônico

Abstract

The present research analyses the Liturgy of the Hours according the community-church celebration was sanctioned for use in the Latin Church, in 1971, as a new version of this prayer, transmitted by the apostolic tradition. In spite of, the celebration continues absent in almost all dioceses in Brazil. Beginning with the hypothesis that the liturgical celebration of the Hours is not irrelevant because the liturgical rights of the faithful are involved, the present research served as a comparison between two ecclesiological models, of the origins and of the gregorian reform, to verify as the respective constitutional concepts reflected themselves about the present prayer. Meanwhile the ecclesiological model of the origins was in force, the official prayer of the Church, in the morning and evening, was celebrated daily by the God priestly people. With the coming of the Gregorian reform (11th century), disappeared the delegation of the faithful to participate in their way of this celebration, and currently only by clerics. However, the second Vatican Council recovered in the 20th century the origins ecclesiological model and in the same way the organic exercise of the liturgy. Consequently, the ius of the faithful, restored since the baptismal delegation for the common priesthood, was hosted by the Cannons 1173 1175 of the Code of Canon Law, who patronized the community church celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours. According to this fundamentality, it demands the implementation in the particular Churches