Tag: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 47
Article 47 proclaims a Catholic understanding of the foundation of the sacrament of the Eucharist as a divine act. Readers will immediately recognize how dense yet balanced this paragraph is.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Taking Stock after Chapter One
Having completed our article-by-article exploration of Chapter One of Sacrosanctum Concilium, it seems appropriate to ask for some feedback.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 46
The Council Fathers’ directives for promoting “pastoral liturgical action” conclude by calling for the development at diocesan level of commissions on sacred music and sacred art parallel to what they had decreed in art.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 45
Pray Tell readers may wish to report on how well dioceses or groups of dioceses have fulfilled this directive of SC in the past fifty years. For example: Is there a functioning Diocesan Liturgy Commission?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 44
What are your experiences of how these commissions and institutes have functioned? How they have fulfilled the document’s mandate, and what issues they are facing for the future?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 43
Readers might take heart that the Council Fathers declare that concern for liturgical life is not a peculiar and peripheral obsession, but a response to divine initiatives in the contemporary era.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 42
Readers may wish to discuss the idea of a “common” celebration of the Sunday Eucharist in a parish. What values underlie the multiplication of Mass times in particular parishes?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 41
Art. 41 makes a claim of great importance for the subsequent ecclesiology developed at Vatican II. What sense(s) the Christian life of the faithful “derives from” and/or “depends upon” the ministry of the bishop?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 40
Article 40 treats the situation in which a more “radical” adaptation would be needed and seems to foresee a “bottom-up” form of inculturation in which one begins with the religious practices of a given culture and attempts to find in them vehicles for Christian worship.