Il culto della croce nella liturgia del venerdì santo nell’altomedioevo

• Autor(a) principal: Mazza, Enrico
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: ita
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2006.1720

This article aims to show the origin of the rite of the adoration of the Cross in the Good Friday liturgy. For this purpose we will examine the Roman, Gallican and Mozarabic liturgies. From the documents studied we find that up to the 7th century no specific liturgy is known. In Rome the sacramentary Gelasianum Vetus is the first liturgical book to mention a liturgy of the Word for this day followed by a rite of veneration of the Cross and by the communion of the faithful. The history of this rite is linked to the worship of the relic of the true Cross practised in the stational liturgy of the Pope. The relic was taken in procession from the Basilica of St. John Lateran to the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, where it was deposited on an altar. In the early 8th century, the Ordo romanus XXIII testifies to this Papal liturgical practice, following the description made by Egeria of the Holy Week rites in Jerusalem in the late 4th century. The Gallican liturgy knows of no rite of adoration of the Cross. In the Hispanic tradition, the origin of the Good Friday rites is related to the Offices of Lauds, Terce and None, where the predominant theme is the Passion of Christ. The author concludes, therefore, that the rite of the adoration of the Cross was not born in Rome or in Spain, but was a development of the veneration of the relic of the Holy Cross and of the Divine Office, respectively.