Following our founders’ tradition, we Jesuits regularly mark our writings with the phrase Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam. But can we human creatures really add anything to the divine glory?
Read more
Tag: Sacrosanctum Conciliium
Baptism: A Credential or a Continuation of the Christian Journey
I’m an ordained American Baptist clergyperson who received her academic training from a pontifical Catholic institution…
Read more
East Meets West in Liturgy
The reform of the liturgy after Vatican II is also debated within some Orthodox circles.
Read moreA new treasury of primary source material for Vatican II
Newly published material, all of it predating the Second Vatican Council, illustrates a wide range of views on liturgical development and change.
Read moreReviewing Louis Bouyer Ten Years Later
My own impression of the purpose of [the increasinlgy speculative, abstract] development in his work was that it served to support the practical, clerical, highly conservative ecclesiology he promoted in his writings, lectures, and not least through his formative influence on an inner circle of students he nurtured in 1970s Paris, including (the later cardinals) Lustiger (Paris) and Shoenborn (Vienna) … .
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 64
Having given permission for an expanded use of the vernacular in the celebration of the sacraments and the sacramentals, the Council Fathers now continue their practical decrees by beginning a consideration of the sacraments of initiation.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 59
The sacraments are ordered to the sanctifying of human beings, to the building up of the Body of Christ, and finally to rendering worship to God; assuredly as signs they also pertain to instruction.
Read moreA Document from the USCCB on the 50th Anniversary of “Sacrosanctum Concilium”
The document Stewards of the Tradition—Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium was developed by the Committee on Divine Worship of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 56
The two parts that, in a certain sense, stand together as the Mass – none other than the liturgy of the word and the eucharistic liturgy – are so closely connected with each other that they accomplish one act of worship.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 55
The more perfect participation in the Mass by which the faithful, after the Communion of the priest, receive the Body of the Lord from the same sacrifice, is strongly commended.
Read more