{"id":42606,"date":"2018-07-27T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:05:46","slug":"paul-vi-on-liturgical-reform-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/27\/paul-vi-on-liturgical-reform-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul VI on liturgical reform Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ed.: Pope Paul VI , who was pope 1963-1978, is to be canonized a saint on October 14, 2018. During and after the Second Vatican Council, he oversaw the most massive liturgical reform in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In view of his canonization,\u00a0<\/em>Pray Tell<em>\u00a0is occasionally\u00a0 publishing some of his most significant statements on liturgical reform .<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The liturgical reform provides us with an excellent opportunity in this regard: it calls us back to the theological view of human destiny that the action of grace, and thus of the life of the sacraments and prayer, has primacy. The liturgical reform opens up to us a way to reeducate our people in their religion, to purify and revitalize their forms of worship and devotion, to restore dignity, beauty, simplicity, and good taste to our religious ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Without such inward and outward renewal there can be little hope for any widespread survival of religious living in today\u2019s changed conditions. We take it on ourself to make but two pertinent recommendations. The first is that you take the greatest pains over the sanctifying of days of precept, devoting all your energies to the end that the celebration of the Sunday and holyday Mass with the word of God and the participation of the people will be an occasion of the most intense involvement for all.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that you promote sacred song, the religious, congregational singing of the people. 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