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Liturgical Reform and the Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Illtud Evans O.P.
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In the preamble to its Constitution on the Liturgy, the second Vatican Council has clearly established the place of liturgical reform within that framework of the Church's inner renewal which is the Council's primary concern. ‘The sacred Council has for its aims the daily reinvigoration of the Christian life of the faithful, the better adaptation to the needs of our own time of those institutions that are subject to change, the fostering of everything that can contribute to the union of those who belief in Christ, and the strengthening of all that can call the whole of mankind into the household of the Church. For those reasons the Council considers it has a special obligation to undertake the reform and promotion of the liturgy.’

Type
Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 18 , Issue 211 , April 1964 , pp. 404 - 412
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Note. The translation of extracts from the Constitution is by the author of this article. The Latin-French text, with useful notes, has appeared in Maison-Diew, No. 76 (Paris: Editions du Cerf.)

2 cf. Bede Griffiths, O.S.B., Blackfriars, Jan. i960

3 A proposal to retain Latin for the ‘form’ of the sacraments was defeated in the Council.

4 At the Assisi Conference, Bishop Van Bekkum had pointed out the absurdity of Catholic missionaried using black vestments for funerals in the Far East, where the colour of mourning is invariably white.