This article concludes the list of \u201cgeneral norms\u201d the Council Fathers articulated for the reform\/restoration\/renewal of the Liturgy. I will take a short break from my Monday\/Thursday posting of these texts and reflections and will take up the next set of norms after the New Year.<\/p>\n
Vatican website translation:<\/p>\n
25. The liturgical books are to be revised as soon as possible; experts are to be employed on the task, and bishops are to be consulted, from various parts of the world.<\/p>\n
Latin text:<\/p>\n
25. Libri liturgici quam primum recognoscantur, peritis adhibitis et Episcopis consultis ex diversis orbis regionibus.<\/strong><\/p>\n Slavishly literal translation:<\/p>\n 25. The liturgical books are to be reviewed as soon as possible, with experts employed and bishops consulted from diverse regions of the world.<\/p>\n The final \u201cgeneral norm\u201d 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]). The process of reviewing\/revising the liturgical books is entrusted to two groups: experts and bishops (although what their qualifications might be, how they might be chosen, and how they are to work with one another remained to be worked out). I take the phrase \u201cex diversis orbis regionibus\u201d to apply to both the \u201cexperts employed\u201d and the \u201cbishops consulted.\u201d<\/p>\n We are blessed to have various accounts of the process by which the liturgical books were revised for the Roman Rite, foremost of which is probably Annibale Bugnini\u2019s La riforma liturgica (1948-1975)<\/em> and its various translations. Pray Tell<\/em> readers may want to evaluate the effectiveness of the process by which the reform of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite took place in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, how these revised books were accepted, adapted, and translated by local territorial authorities, and what processes (e.g., for determining categories and credentials of \u201cexperts,\u201d for surfacing bishops [and other categories of church leaders?] to consult) for future liturgical reform\/restoration\/renewal might be helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The final \u201cgeneral norm\u201d 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]). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[3814,32],"tags":[2263],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-reading-sacrosanctum-concilium","category-vatican-ii","tag-re-reading-sacrosanctum-concilium"],"yoast_head":"\n