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The assembly stands to sing the Gospel Acclamation to welcome the Gospel. They remain standing in honour of the Gospel reading, the high point of the Liturgy of the Word. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the holy Gospel according to N. Glory to you, O Lord. At the end of the Gospel, the Deacon, or the Priest, acclaims:
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Ideally, an acclamation is an expression of the religious unison, or koinonia, of the faithful community. Werner identifies three functions of acclamations: (1) demonstrating the active participation of the community; (2) loudly confirming and professing a common faith; and (3) providing outlets for spontaneous expressions of religious emotion.
Psalm 16:7. 1 I love you, LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies. Psalm 18:1-3.
- II. Growth of Liturgical Acclamations
- III. For Popes and Bishops
- IV. Councils
—It seems highly probable that the practices observed in the election of the Pagan emperors were the prototype of most of the liturgical acclamations now known to us. In the long account given by Vopiscus of the election of the Emperor Tacitus (283) we are told that when Tacitus at first declined the honor in the senate on the score of his advanced...
—It was natural that the practice of acclaiming should not be confined to the person of the sovereign or to the occasion of his election. Just as we read of the king “wearing his crown” upon great feasts in certain favored cities, a ceremony which seems to have amounted to a sort of secondary coronation, so the elaborate laudes in honor of the empe...
—Other acclamations meet us in the acts of some of the early councils. They seem in most cases to have taken the form of compliments to the emperors, and may often perhaps be no more significant than a toast to the king and royal family at a modern banquet. But we read of other cries, for instance, that at the first session of the Council of Chalce...
This history explains the characteristic notes of Lent – self-examination, penitence, self-denial, study, and preparation for Easter, to which almsgiving has traditionally been added. Now is the healing time decreed. for sins of heart and word and deed, when we in humble fear record. the wrong that we have done the Lord.
During Lent, both before and after the Gospel Acclamation, one or other of the following phrases may nbe used, or another similar phrase. Acclamations Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory! Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus! Glory and praise to you, O Christ! Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!
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acclamation 1. One of the ways of electing a pope in which the cardinals unanimously, without consultation or balloting, proclaim one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff.
