Il recupero del „rito” come orrizonte per una rinnovata teologia sacramentale
Back to the „Rite” as the Horizon of the Renewed Sacramental Theology

Summary/Abstract: The author takes up the issue presented in the title in order to show the most important elements of the relationship between faith and Christian (sacramental) life. One of these (here the author refers to the Vatican II) is the sanctification of the people of God. The second: the source and need for evangelization (realization of the commandment of the Lord). The third: the response (or the need) of the contemporary (lost) human being. As a result of the undertaken (in depth) text analysis (carried out in four aspects-keys), the author notes that in the face of the challenges posed by Vatican II to theology (and the entire Catholic Church), there has been a certain return to sacramentology, on the level of rite (practice) also. All of this in order to open oneself to the necessary increase of faith, possible via its existential (community) experience, made in the most complete way through the “rite”, ie. through celebration. In other words, the essential content of the need for liturgical renewal has become the certainty that the profession of faith can best be accomplished on the level of an increasingly conscious participation in what we define „the sacramental life of the Church”. This noticeable openness (which the Church of today experiences), the author calls: back to the “rite”, that is back to the rite of the sacraments. He sees here the merit of specific theologians (quoted by name), that is a renewed sacramental theology (or: theology of the sacrament). Thanks to them, “back to the rite” has become a determinant (horizon) of sacramentology.

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