The Wellspring of Worship

by Corbon, Jean; O'Connell, Matthew J.

• ISBN13: 9781586170226
• ISBN10: 1586170228
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Ignatius Press

Summary

The Sacred Liturgy, declares Vatican II, is the font from which all the Church's spiritual power flows. In his modern classic work The Wellspring of Worship, Fr. Jean Corbon explores the meaning of the Liturgy as the "wellspring" or source of the Church's life and worship of God. The Liturgy itself is a sharing in the mystery of the Triune God and in the Incarnation, Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus. Corbon writes that it is "the mystery of the river of life that streams from the Father and the Lamb", into which believers are to be drawn. In this way, the divine river waters their entire lives, renewing and transforming them.

The Wellspring of Worship is a masterful reflection on the mystery of God's Trinitarian life and how the Church's members participate in that life through the Liturgy.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the English Edition	7	(4)
Edward J. Kilmartin
Foreword to the French Edition	11	(2)
Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
Preface	13	(2)
A Liturgical Vocabulary	15	(6)
Beside the Well	21	(8)
PART ONE The Mystery of the Liturgy
``The Mystery Kept Hidden through All the Ages'' (Eph 3:9)	29	(7)
The Fullness of Time or the Coming of the Mystery	36	(8)
The Hour of Jesus or the Mystery as Event	44	(14)
The Ascension and the Eternal Liturgy	58	(13)
Pentecost: The Coming of the Church	71	(7)
The ``Last Times'': The Spirit and the Bride	78	(9)
The Transfiguration	87	(13)
The Holy Spirit and the Church in the Liturgy	100	(18)
PART TWO The Liturgy Celebrated
The Celebration as Epiphany of the Liturgy	118	(15)
The Outstreaming of the Liturgy in the Celebration	133	(15)
The Sacrament of Sacraments	148	(13)
The Sacramental Epicleses	161	(20)
The Celebration of a New Time	181	(10)
The Sacramental Space of the Celebration	191	(17)
PART THREE The Liturgy Lived
Liturgy and Life	201	(7)
Prayer, the Liturgy of the Heart	208	(10)
The Divinization of the Human Person	218	(8)
The Liturgy in Work and Culture	226	(9)
The Liturgy in the Human Community	235	(10)
Compassion, the Liturgy of the Poor	245	(8)
Mission and the Liturgy of the Last Times	253	(11)
The Liturgy, Handing on of the Mystery	264