The Mystery of Christ Made Present in the Liturgy

Rome, March 3 – 4 2015

The School of Theology of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross will hold on 3-4 March 2015 its annual conference entitled The Mystery of Christ Made Present in the Liturgy.

The purpose of the conference is to offer a theological reflection on the liturgy focused on its centre and root, the mystery of Christ. This mystery is to be understood with all its facets as presented in the New Testament, both in the Gospels and in the Pauline Letters. The "mystery" is identified with Christ: His Person, His Pasch, united to the Church as His Body, through the gift of the Holy Spirit. This perspective leads to a historical-salvific understanding of the liturgy. The main addresses are situated in this context: the mystêrion in the New Testament; mysterium and sacramentum in the liturgical sources; the actualization of the mystery in the liturgy; the liturgy of the hours, as a celebration of the mystery; the experience of the paschal mystery through liturgical music; Christian life as marked by the mystery celebrated.