A realidade da música litúrgica em consonância com a inteligência senciente do filósofo Xavier Zubiri

Abstract

Liturgical music is intended to provide the rite with the beauty and real expressiveness of the paschal memorial of Christ, which is the mystery of human faith and the source of salvation. To sing the liturgy is to sing the liturgical reality that the rite asks for and the participating assembly clearly and faithfully utters the meaning that this liturgical action has for its journey of faith. Ritual singing opens up greater possibilities for understanding the celebratory act. In harmony with the philosophical thought of Xavier Zubiri who has a new form of understanding reality, from the primordial apprehension, the human being is based on reality, or rather, on the sentient intelligence that has, for distinct moments, the feeling and the intelligence. These two forms of apprehension of reality applied to the liturgy and precisely to the liturgical music is the most existent in understanding the reality of music that sings the mystery of Christ celebrated in the Word and in the Eucharist. To apprehend feeling impressively and by stimulation, is to realize that which is already present in the intellect. To sing the liturgy is to awaken the celebrated mystery already actualized in sentient intelligence and which awakens in people’s life a gaze to a new liturgical reality steeped in what the Church says in her conciliar documents and in the episcopal and local conferences