Category: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 76
Vatican website translation: 76. Both the ceremonies and texts of the ordination rites are to be revised. The address given by the bishop at the beginning of each ordination or consecration may be in the mother tongue. When a bishop is consecrated, the laying of hands may be done by all the bishops present. Latin…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 75
“The number of the anointings is to be adapted to the occasion, and the prayers which belong to the rite of anointing are to be revised so as to correspond with the varying conditions of the sick who receive the sacrament.”
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 74
In addition to the separate rites for anointing of the sick and for viaticum, a continuous rite shall be prepared according to which the sick man is anointed after he has made his confession and before he receives viaticum.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 73
Vatican website translation: 73. “Extreme unction,” which may also and more fittingly be called “anointing of the sick,” is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death. Hence, as soon as any one of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 72
“The rite and formulas for the sacrament of penance are to be revised so that they more clearly express both the nature and effect of the sacrament.”
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 71
The Council Fathers give very few directives concerning the reform/renewal of the Rite of Confirmation for the Roman Rite, but their overarching guideline is clear: Confirmation is to be considered within the context of the other Sacraments of Initiation.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 70
In Article 70 the Council Fathers respond to a custom that had prevailed in the Roman Rite since the Middle Ages that the Easter water blessed on Holy Saturday was to be preserved in the font for baptisms throughout the year.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 69
Given their concern that the liturgical sign systems clearly express the grace that they intend to communicate (the “truth” of the liturgy), it is not surprising that the Council Fathers would turn their attention to two pastoral situations not well served by the rites in force at the time of the Council.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 68
Vatican website translation: 68. The baptismal rite should contain variants, to be used at the discretion of the local ordinary, for occasions when a very large number are to be baptized together. Moreover, a shorter rite is to be drawn up, especially for mission lands, to be used by catechists, but also by the faithful…