THEO LITURGICAL PRAYER Summer Session, 2015

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1 THEO LITURGICAL PRAYER Summer Session, 2015 Instructor: Nicholas V. Russo, Ph.D. 104 O Shaughnessy Hall nrusso@nd.edu Class Time and Location: June 15 - July 3, 2014 Mon-Fri 3:15-5:45 p.m. 200 O Shaughnessy Hall Course Description: Liturgical historian Robert Taft, S.J. has insisted that Christian liturgy is a given, an object, an already existing reality like English literature. One discovers what English literature is only by reading Chaucer and Shakespeare and Eliot and Shaw and the contemporaries. So too with the liturgy. If we want to know what Christmas and Chrismation, Eucharist and Easter mean, we shall not get far by studying anthropology or game-theory, or by asking ourselves what we think they mean. We must plunge into the enormous stream of liturgical and patristic evidence and wade through it piece by piece, age by age, ever alert to pick up shifts in the current as each generation reaches for its own understanding of what it is we are about. Beyond East and West: Problems in Liturgical Understanding, Second Edition (Rome: Pontifical Oriental Institute, 1997) p. 14 This course will trace the origins, development, and interpretation of the liturgy of the hours proceeding from this premise: that understanding the liturgy comes not from pious navel gazing or myth making based on our particular fantasies, preferences, and prejudices, but from a methodical rigorous study of the liturgy itself as it is preserved in the historical sources and artifacts using the tried and true methods of historical criticism and comparative liturgy. Course Objectives: To learn to use the methods of historical criticism and comparative liturgy in the analysis of liturgical rites To trace the evolution of the liturgy of the hours in the various communities of the Christian East and West To compare and contrast the structures and theologies of the liturgy of the hours of the communities of the Christian East and West To read the meanings/theologies of the liturgy of the hours as they are revealed in the rites and how those meanings have been changed, amplified, or muted as the rites have evolved, disintegrated, and been renewed Page 1 of 5

2 Course Requirements: Participation, Seminar Leadership, and Attendance 35% Paper 30% Presentation 35% Grading Scale: = A = A = B = B = B = C = C = C = D 61-below = F Required Texts: LHEW = Robert Taft, SJ, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and its Meaning for Today, Second Revised Edition. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, DPEC = Paul F. Bradshaw, Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2008 reprinted. LAT = Irénée Henri Dalmais, Pierre Jounel, and Aimé Georges Martimort, The Church at Prayer, Volume IV: The Liturgy and Time. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, Recommended Reading: SOCW = Paul F. Bradshaw, The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, HLS5 = Anscar J. Chupungco, ed., Handbook for Liturgical Studies, Volume V: Liturgical Time and Space. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2000) Page 2 of 5

3 Mon 6/15 Orientation and Daily Prayer in Judaism Daily Prayer in First-Century Judaism, in DPEC, Christian Prayer in the New Testament and Its Jewish Background, in LHEW, Jewish Prayer in the Time of Christ, in LAT, Dikran Y. Hadidian, The Background and Origin of the Christian Hours of Prayer, Theological Studies 25 (1964) (on Sakai) Tues 6/16 Daily Prayer in the New Testament Daily Prayer in First-Century Christianity, in DPEC, Christian Prayer in the New Testament and Its Jewish Background, in LHEW, The Example of the Prayer of Jesus, in LAT, The Ideal of the Apostolic Community: Ceaseless Prayer, in LAT, Wed 6/17 Daily Prayer in the Second and Third Centuries The Second and Third Centuries, in DPEC, Daily Prayer in the Pre-Constantinian Church, in LHEW, Juan Mateos, The Origins of the Divine Office, Worship 41.8 (1967) (Sakai) The Hours of Christian Prayer and Their Symbolism in the Church of the Third Century, in LAT, The Distinction Between Cathedral and Monastic Offices, in SOCW, Daily Prayer Before the Fourth Century, in SOCW, Thurs 6/18 The Place of Psalms and Canticles in Liturgical Prayer The Liturgy of the Hours: Praying the Psalms, in LAT, The Other Elements in the Liturgy of the Hours: The Biblical Canticles, in LAT, Fri 6/19 The Cathedral Office in the East The Cathedral Office in the East, in DPEC, The Cathedral Office in the Fourth-Century East, in LHEW, The Example of the Prayer of Jesus, in LAT, The Communal Prayer of the Hours after the Peace of Constantine (Fourth-Fifth Centuries), in LAT, G. Winkler, New Study of Early Development of Divine Office Worship 56.2 (1982) (Sakai) Page 3 of 5

4 Mon 6/22 The Monastic Office in the East The Monastic Office in the East, in DPEC, The Egyptian Monastic Office in the Fourth Century, in LHEW, The Urban Monastic Office in the East, in LHEW, The Urban Monastic Office, in SOCW, Juan Mateos, The Morning and Evening Office, Worship 42.1 (1968) Tues 6/23 The Cathedral Office in the West The Cathedral Office in the West, in DPEC, The Cathedral Hours in the West, in LHEW, Wed 6/24 The Monastic Office in the West The Monastic Office in the West, in DPEC, The Monastic Office in the West: North Africa, Gaul, Ireland, and the Iberian Peninsula, in LHEW, Thurs 6/25 The Monastic Office in the West The Monastic Office in the West, in DPEC, The Monastic Office in the West: North Africa, Gaul, Ireland, and the Iberian Peninsula, in LHEW, The Monastic Hours in Italy, in LHEW, Fri 6/26 The Liturgy of the Hours in the East The Byzantine Office, in LHEW, The Varied Forms of the Liturgy of the Hours: In the East, in LAT, Nicholas Uspensky, Evening Worship in the Orthodox Church (Crestwood: St. Vladimir s Seminary Press, 1985). **Ancient/Medieval Liturgical Analysis Paper Due** Page 4 of 5

5 Mon 6/29 The Liturgy of the Hours in the West From Liturgy to Prayerbook: The Office Becomes the Breviary in the West, in LHEW, The Roman Office, in LHEW, The Varied Forms of the Liturgy of the Hours: In the West, in LAT, Tues 6/30 The Liturgy of the Hours in the Churches of the Reformation The Hours in the Churches of the Reformation, in LHEW, Wed 7/1 The Liturgy of the Hours in Modern Reform Dominic F. Scotto, The Liturgy of the Hours: Its History and its Importance as the Communal Prayer of the Church after the Liturgical Form of Vatican II. Petersham: St. Bede s Publications, Jan Michael Joncas, Liturgy of the Hours: Problem Child of the Liturgical Reform, Pastoral Music 15.6 (1991) Stanislaus Campbell, From Breviary to Liturgy of the Hours: The Structural Reform of the Roman Office, Collegeville: Liturgical Press, Elisa E. Ugarte, The Participation of the Laity in the Liturgy of the Hours: The Reform that Failed, J.C.L. Thesis, Catholic University of America, Thurs 7/2 Theology of the Liturgy of the Hours Toward a Theology of the Liturgy of the Hours, in LHEW, The Liturgy of the Hours as the Church s School of Prayer, in LHEW, Fri 7/3 Presentations **Modern Liturgical Analysis Presentation Due** Page 5 of 5