Category: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 67
In accord with the principle of the “truth” of the rite that we have seen earlier, the Council Fathers decree that the actual capabilities of the infants being baptized are to be reflected in the texts and ceremonies used.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 66
Because various elements of the liturgical celebrations marking the catechumenate (such as exorcisms/scrutinies, anointings, the ephphetha ceremony, etc.) had been inserted into the rites of adult Baptism, the Council Fathers directed that both the simple and the solemn rites of adult Baptism had to be revised in order to take into account what belonged to…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 65
The Council Fathers had already declared themselves open to the possibility of cultural adaptation of the reformed rites in articles 37-40.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 64
Having given permission for an expanded use of the vernacular in the celebration of the sacraments and the sacramentals, the Council Fathers now continue their practical decrees by beginning a consideration of the sacraments of initiation.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 63
Here the Council Fathers extend the use of the vernacular in the administration of the other Sacraments and Sacramentals.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 62
Art. 62 makes the transition from the theoretical foundations found in arts. 59-61 to the subsequent practical decrees for the revision of the celebration of sacraments other than the Eucharist and of the sacramentals.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 61
Perhaps the most important assertion in the article is the claim that the Sacraments and Sacramentals draw their (spiritual) power from the Paschal Mystery, here described as the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ, although in other contexts this mystery may also be described as comprising the Ascension and Sending of the Holy Spirit as…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 60
In classic Roman Catholic sacramental theology sacramentals are distinguished from sacraments on the basis of efficacy: sacraments confer grace ex opere operato while sacramentals confer grace in other ways.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 59
The sacraments are ordered to the sanctifying of human beings, to the building up of the Body of Christ, and finally to rendering worship to God; assuredly as signs they also pertain to instruction.