{"id":28235,"date":"2014-11-20T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=28235"},"modified":"2014-11-20T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:11:02","slug":"november-21-fiftieth-anniversary-of-three-vatican-ii-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/november-21-fiftieth-anniversary-of-three-vatican-ii-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"November 21: Fiftieth Anniversary of Three Vatican II Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago, on November 21, 1964, three important documents of the Second Vatican Council were promulgated &#8211; on the church, on Eastern Catholic churches, and on ecumenism.<\/p>\n<p>Each document is important in its own right, of course, and deserves to be read as a whole. But <em>Pray Tell <\/em>readers will be interested in what each of these documents has to say about the liturgy,\u00a0so we are excerpting from LG, OE, and UR those articles which treat\u00a0the liturgy.<\/p>\n<p>According to these documents of the Second Vatican Council, liturgy is an act of the whole church in which each member of the church has a role to play, Eastern Catholic churches are to recover and retain their own liturgical and spiritual traditions, and\u00a0Catholics are to learn more about and seek commonalities with other traditions of prayer and worship. Running through all this is the theme of decentralization and respect for diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Here are <em>Pray Tell&#8217;s <\/em>liturgy excerpts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/november-21-fiftieth-anniversary-of-three-vatican-ii-documents\/lumen-gentium\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28236\">Lumen Gentium<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Dogmatic Constitution on the Church;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/november-21-fiftieth-anniversary-of-three-vatican-ii-documents\/orientalium-ecclesiarum\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28239\">Orientalium Ecclesiarum<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/november-21-fiftieth-anniversary-of-three-vatican-ii-documents\/unitatis-redintegratio\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28240\">Unitatis Redintegratio<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Decree on Ecumenism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell me you&#8217;ve read every document of Vatican II. 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