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Jungmann Revisited, or a Word to Mr Waugh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Liturgy is still widely regarded in England as something connected either with archeology, rubrics, or monasteries. In Belgium, France and Germany, for several decades, the liturgy has been seen and used for what it is: the man-in-the-street's closest and most active contact with God. Historical research, used before the war often just to resuscitate defunct liturgical practices for the archaicist's delight, has shown why the liturgy is not, at present, as good a means of contact as it could be - that is, not pastoral enough. Theological consideration of it has not only brought before us the extraordinary depth, range and immediacy of this contact, but has also thrown into still clearer light the essentially pastoral function of the liturgy and indicated the general lines on which it must be made to fulfil this function more effectively.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 The Theological Dimensions of the Liturgy, St John's Abbey Press, 2 Vols. (Only one so far published). French version: Initiation théologique à la liturgie, Saint André (complete).

2 Pastoral Liturgy, by J . A. Jungmann, S.J.; Challoner; 63 s.

3 Newman Press, 1962. Reviewed in our issue of Dec. 1962.

4 ‘The Same Again, Please', The Spectator, 23rd Nov., 1962.