I read the most odd liturgical term in the Vatican Information Service daily newsletter, and it was written by Pope Benedict XVI:
"primordial nucleus"
as in: "Sundays," writes the Pope, "remain the fundamental seedbed and the primordial nucleus of the liturgical year; ... a fragment of time pervaded by eternity, because its dawn saw the Risen Christ enter victoriously into eternal life."
Sounds more like biology than liturgy. I guess it is true that Pope Benedict is wanting to make more organic changes to the liturgy. LOL. ;)
Interestingly enough, if you google "primordial nucleus" you'll get articles about: cosmology and the big bang, prenatal development, and the excitation of atomic nuclei in nuclear physics.
Who said science and faith are separate!
RS
1 comment:
If you look at the definition of the two words seperate it makes a little more sense?
primordial
having existed from the beginning;
nucleus
part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction
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