Thursday, March 19, 2015

Historical and Liturgical issues

I have been trying to make this blog a bit more user-friendly; a vast amount of material, some of which involved a significant amount of research, is only retrievable if you know the exact search term to use. This is a particular problem for historical and liturgical issues, since there are just so many of them.

First, I have discussed a number of documents, some of which are presented here for the first time in English, or in searchable formats: I now have these under the Documents tag.

On Latin in seminaries, these include Inspectis dierum (and here) (1989), Officiorum omnium (and here) (1922), Veterum Sapientia (1962), Sacrificium laudis (1966) (with also a note about Canon 249 and Sacramentum Caritatis).

On the location of the tabernacle and liturgical orientation, these include Pius XII's 1957 Assisi address and the decree Santissimam eucharistiam (1957); there is commentary on this issue under this label.

On the Eastern Churches, these include 'Observations' on the reform of the Syro-Malabar rite (1984) and Il Padre, incomprensibile (1996).

I have posted about important errors in widely-used translations of Quo primum (1570), Summorum Pontificum (2007), and Universae Ecclesiae (2011); on the last I have posted about an entirely new translation.

I have also put up some important long quotations from Dietrich von Hildebrand, including a series on beauty in the liturgy;

and extracts from Anne Roche Muggeridge (theology and the crisis in the Church).


Second, I have discussed a series of issues about the sociology of the Church, which now have their own tag.

Specifically, these posts concern the writers Anthony Archer, Leon Podles, Patrick Arnold, and Linda Woodhead.


Third, I have discussed a series of issues relating to specific liturgical issues. The best starting point is the set of FIUV Position Papers on the FIUV website, but I have additional discussion on each of them on this blog as well, in many cases over several posts.

Below are the titles of the papers, linked to the paper itself, and a link to further discussion on this blog.

PP 1: The Service of Men and Boys at the Altar (and on this blog here)
PP 2: Liturgical Piety and Participation 
(and on this blog here)
PP 3: The Manner of Receiving Communion 
(and on this blog here)
PP 4: Liturgical Orientation 
(and on this blog here and here)
PP 5: The Vulgate and Gallican Psalter 
(and on this blog here)
PP 6: Liturgical Pluralism 
(and on this blog here)
PP 7: Latin as Liturgical Language 
(and on this blog here)
PP 8: Prefaces 
(and on this blog here)
PP 9: Silence 
(and on this blog here)
PP 10: Eucharistic Fast 
(and on this blog here)
PP 11: Western Culture 
(and on this blog here)
PP 12: Latin in Seminaries 
(and on this blog here)
PP 13: Holy Days of Obligation 
(and on this blog here)
PP 14: Holy Week Reform of 1955, Part I - General Comments

PP 14: Holy Week Reform of 1955, Part II - Liturgies 
(on Holy Week issues see this blog here)
PP 15: The Lectionary of the Extraordinary Form 
(and on this blog here)
PP 16: The Proclamation of Lections in Latin in the Extraordinary Form 
(and on this blog here)
PP 17: The Reception of Communion under the Species of Bread Alone in the Extraordinary Form 
(and on this blog here)
PP 18: The Missa Lecta 
(and on this blog here)
PP 19: The Kiss of Peace 
(and on this blog here)
PP 20: The Season of Septuagesima, and Vigils and Octaves, in the Extraordinary Form 
(and on this blog here)
PP 21: The Extraordinary Form and the Eastern Churches 
(and on this blog here)
PP 22: Headcoverings in Church in the Extraordinary Form 
(and on this blog here)
PP 23: The Extraordinary Form and China 
(and on this blog here)
PP 24: Prayers for the Persecuted Church and the Leonine Prayers 
(and on this blog here)
PP 25: The Extraordinary Form and Sub-Saharan Africa (and on this blog here)
PP 26: The Extraordinary Form and Men (and on this blog here).
PP 27: Tradition, Reform, and Restoration (and on this blog here)
PP 28: The Good Friday Prayer for the Jews (and on this blog here)

Another issue is that of the new translation of the Ordinary Form.


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3 comments:

  1. Joseph thanks for this comprehensive listing. Can I suggest that you put a link to http://www.lmschairman.org/2015/03/historical-and-liturgical-issues.html
    on your side bar possibly named "Historical and Liturgical Documents" so that this particular page remains available in the forthcoming months (and years ?). It will also allow you to add to this page if other documents, reports etc become available

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    1. It is now linked to from the list of 'tags' at the top of the blog, under the title.

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  2. Sorry Joseph I had missed the links on your new heading for the Blog, all very helpful

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