Tag: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 30
How effectively has active participation been accomplished over the last fifty years? What promotes or impedes it today? And what suggestions might you have for the future?
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 29
Readers may wish to reflect on how these non-ordained liturgical ministries have developed and been exercised over the past fifty years. They may also wish to discuss what kinds of formation are available for these non-ordained ministries and how effective they have been in inculcating liturgical piety and imparting practical knowledge of the rites.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 28
For the Eucharistic liturgy to manifest its hierarchic and communal character, its optimal form would involve a bishop presiding, surrounded by a college of presbyters and a college of deacons, and an assembly of the faithful.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 27
Article 27 makes even more explicit the principle announced that the liturgical form of celebration should embody and express the hierarchical and communitarian nature of the Church and its liturgy.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 26
Forms of celebration that highlight the communal dimension of the liturgy are preferred to those that are (quasi-)private. Readers may wish to discuss liturgical practices which embody or challenge this principle over the last fifty years.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 25
The final “general norm” for the reform/restoration/renewal of the liturgy articulated by the Council Fathers calls for a review/revision of the official liturgical library guiding Roman Rite worship (and the other rites insofar as the principles of the Constitution on the Liturgy should apply to them [art. 3]).
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 24
Readers may wish to address how and how well a “warm and living love for sacred Scripture” has marked Catholic life over the last fifty years. They may also wish to revisit earlier discussions challenging how scripture has been distributed for Roman Rite liturgical celebration.
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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…