Category: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 23
Readers might want to evaluate from a distance of half a century the characteristics and adequacy of the theological, historical, and pastoral scholarship grounding the work of the curial entities responsible for the reform of the liturgical books after Vatican II. What further theological, historical, and pastoral scholarship needs to be taken into account for…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 22
The first of the Constitution’s “general norms” declares on whose authority modification of the Liturgy may be done. This may be a good point to review the categories contra legem, pro lege, and praeter legem in reference to liturgical practices and discuss the development of liturgical customs as we have witnessed them over the last…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 21
The first sentence of art. 21 makes it clear that the Council Fathers’ intention in undertaking a reform/restoration/renewal of the Liturgy was ultimately for pastoral purposes: so that the faithful might more deeply avail themselves of the divine life offered them through the liturgy.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 20
In a world of “virtual community,” what does the liturgical demand for bodily presence and activity in a particular space engender?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 19
Article 19 wisely reminds pastors that there is no “one size fits all” liturgical education/formation program, but that initiatives in pastoral liturgy must take into account worshipers’ wide variety of educational backgrounds, interests and depth of catechesis/mystagogy.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 18
1) How have the Council Fathers’ intentions for on-going liturgical formation for the clergy been carried out in practice over the last fifty years? 2) What concrete “means” have been or could be developed that would successfully achieve the goals of this on-going formation in the present? 3) To what extent should this on-going professional…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 17
Celebrating liturgy in the seminary and equivalent houses of formation has its own part to play; intellectual study of the liturgy without integration with proper celebration of the liturgy misforms seminarians and their equivalents.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 16
After decreeing that teachers of liturgy in seminaries and their equivalents be appropriately prepared for their work in article 15, the Council Fathers in article 16 discuss the place that liturgical studies should occupy in these institutions of higher learning.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 15
It might be of interest to trace how seminaries and other institutes of formation for pastoral leadership have responded to this decree of the Council over the last fifty years.