Tag: Vatican II
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: Our Foremost Concern
“Accordingly, our foremost concern is clearly that the faithful, and especially priests, dedicate themselves first of all to the study of the Constitution on the Liturgy and from this moment on prepare themselves to carry out its prescriptions wholeheartedly as soon as these take effect.”
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: The Difficult, Complex Debates
“The first achievement of the Council must be treasured as something that will quicken and put its imprint on the life of the Church.”
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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 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.
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A Liturgical Voice from the East: Active Participation in the Byzantine Rite
It seems from my perspective that the Eastern Orthodox Churches today must grapple with the role of the laity in liturgical celebrations just as the Roman Catholic Church did in the mid-20th century (and continues to do today).
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The Richness of Our Eucharistic Prayers
What is most important is that we utilize the diversity inherent in the Roman Rite as it stands today. Calls for greater diversity and inculturation of the Roman Rite make little sense when the current richness of the Roman Rite is not being fully utilized.
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The big pope interview
“What is worrying, though, is the risk of the ideologization of the Vetus Ordo [old Mass], its exploitation.” – Pope Francis
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Startling Interview with Pope Francis
“We have to find a new balance,” the pope continued, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”
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Ecclesiological and Liturgical Disjunctures
We as a Church must constantly think through how even the smallest details of our liturgies project a specific ecclesiology. Then we must gauge whether the ecclesiology being articulated is congruous with the Church’s self-understanding. Those practices, no matter how small, which are incompatible with the Church’s broader self-understanding should cease.