Abstract
The Eucharist, a gift of God’s fatherly love, is the heart of the Church life. It constitutes the most important reality, but also a sacrament of everyday life. Awareness of that great gift leads to a deep need for gaining an insight into the beginnings of the Eucharist—the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. The aim of the present article is to investigate the theological content of the antiphons, the song, and the hymn included in the contemporary Polish Roman Missal. The Author will present a theological analysis of the Polish antiphons, the song, and the hymn from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the chronological order of their appearance in the contemporary liturgy. The texts will be subject to historical and linguistic analysis. The texts of the antiphons are rooted in the Bible. For that reason they will be first analyzed from the historical point of view, and then juxtaposed with the version from the Millennium Bible and with the original Greek text, in order to identify differences and analogies between them. Next, the texts will be analyzed from the linguistic and pragmatic perspective. The consideration will end with a short summary of the sources and theological motifs identified in the course of the analysis.
Highlights
The Eucharist—a gift of God’s fatherly love—lies in the heart of the life of the Church.It is the most important reality, but at the same time, the sacrament of everyday life—a realization of the best desires of the human heart
The antiphons are rooted in the Bible, and for that reason we will start with the historical-critical method
In order to indicate the differences between the texts we will use the following rules: words highlighted in grey are unique as they appear only in that version of the text; words that are underlined and preceded by superscript containing a lower-case letter indicate pairs of words from the antiphon and the Millennium Bible; words in bold, followed by superscript containing a capital letter illustrate parallelisms between MB and the literal translation (LT)
Summary
The Eucharist—a gift of God’s fatherly love—lies in the heart of the life of the Church. The process of communication between the author of the text and its recipient is analyzed with the linguistic method It is one of the literary methods of analyzing texts of the New Testament. The linguistic method neglects the whole historical process of text creation, including the author’s and the readers’ background, as well as the situations in which the book was written Taking those aspects into account while analyzing texts often becomes indispensable. The antiphons are rooted in the Bible, and for that reason we will start with the historical-critical method They will be confronted with the Millennium Bible in order to identify differences and analogies with the biblical source, and with the original. The article ends with a short summary concerning the examined sources and the theological content identified during our analysis
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