Psałterz maryjny w świetle „Dyrektorium o pobożności ludowej i liturgii”

Abstract

God’s People’s piety is the spiritual patrimonium of local Churches. It contains various values, and most of all it expresses the religious attitude of a man towards God. One of the forms of Christian people’s piety is the Rosary, called by The Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy Mary’s Psalter. It has a Christological character. The Rosary, when it was shaped in history, ever more clearly became a form of contemplation of Jesus’ life after his Mother’s example. Its peculiar model was the so-called Jesus’ Prayer, hezychasm, developed in the Eastern Church. It consisted in devout repetitions, in the rhythm of the breath, of the phrase “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me” With time, Jesus’ name was uttered in the formula of the Angel’s Greeting. In the Rosary of a Carthusian monk, Dominik of Gdańsk († 1460), in the Angel’s Greeting, after the word “Jesus” several texts were supplemented that reminded various events from the life of Christ and His Immaculate Mother. In this way the awareness was expressed that the Rosary is Christocentric. Finally, the Rosary was divided into three parts: joyful, glorious and painful; and in 2002 Pope John Paul II supplemented it with the mysteries of light that remind us of the events from the life of the Incarnated Word. The Rosary is a Biblical prayer. It is about Christ’s salutary deeds. Contemplation of the mysteries of salvation leads to participating in them, and they are sacramentally made manifest, by the power of Paraclete, in liturgy. The Rosary is a good preparation for liturgy, but also it is an excellent way to consolidate liturgical experience. However, it cannot transgress the threshold of liturgy.