Tag: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 39
In a remarkable departure from earlier practice in which almost all regulation of liturgical practice for the Roman rite was controlled by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, with a few issues left for the determination of a local Ordinary, here the Council Fathers relegate to territorial bishops’ conferences the competence to deal with issues of…
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 38
The Council Fathers state that all revised liturgical books are to provide opportunities for cultural adaptation of the liturgy, especially citing the way in which the rituals are structured and the rubrics guiding ritual action.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 37
To what extent and how should the celebrational forms of the Liturgy adapt to the culture(s) in which it is celebrated? Beginning with article 37, Sacrosanctum Concilium opens a door to liturgical development that has borne great fruit in the last fifty years, but has also proved quite controversial.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 36
The Fathers decree that the use of Latin in the Latin rites is to be maintained, but they do not indicate to what extent and how the decree is to be implemented.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 35
Continuing their discussion of the norms arising from the didactic and pastoral character of the Liturgy, the Council Fathers offer four directives in the reform of the liturgical books.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 34
The norms articulated in article 34 have been rather fiercely contested in the past fifty years. What are the textual and gestural characteristics of “noble simplicity”?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 33
Some may hold that article 33 opposes worship of the divine to instruction of the faithful, but in fact the document recognizes that as long as liturgical worship is conducted using human sign-systems it will inevitably have cognitive-intellectual and emotional-value content.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 32
Those who belong to the baptismal priesthood who do not assume a particular liturgical function could signify that by their clothing as well (“Sunday best”) but this is not as regulated.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 31
Readers may want to explore how effectively the rubrical directives for the liturgy have taken root in the prayer customs of the faithful over the last fifty years. They may also wish to consider the processes by which certain gestures arising from the people may enter the official liturgical books.