SCM Study Guide to Catholic Liturgy

1. The Roman Rite

The first chapter gives an overview of the characteristics of the Roman Rite, the form of liturgy principally celebrated in Catholic Churches in England and Wales. It offers a brief history of its more recent development in the 20th-21st centuries and touches upon a couple of key issues: translations and the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite.

Resources

Here you will find links to any Church documents referred to in the text, excerpts from liturgical rites and further material for reflection and study as well as a list for further readings. Many of the links will be to pages or documents (pdfs) within the Liturgy Office. Some links will be external.

Documents

Documents are given in the order they appear in the Chapter

• Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (1963) (pdf)
• Tra le sollicitudini, Pius X, Motu Proprio on Sacred Music (1903) (pdf)
  • John Paul II, Chirograph for the Centenary of the Motu Proprio "Tra Le Sollecitudini' on Sacred Music (2003) (ext)
• Mediator Dei, Pius XII, Encyclical on Sacred Liturgy (1947) (ext)
• Comme le Prévoit, Consilium for Constitution on the Liturgy, on the translation of liturgical texts (1969) (pdf)
• Liturgiam Authenticam, CDWDS, Instruction On the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Publication of the Books of the Roman Liturgy (2001) (ext)
  • Liturgiam Authenticam - contents (pdf)
• Magnum Principium, Francis, Motu Proprio (2017) (ext)
• Summorum Pontificum, Benedict XVI, Motu Proprio on the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970 (2087) (ext)
• Understanding Church Documents a guide (pdf)

People & Organisations

• Prosper Gueranger - online text of The Liturgical Year (ext)
• Edmund Bishop
  • Downside - Centenary of Bishops' death (ext)
  • Note on his life and links to online texts of his writings. (ext)
• Liturgical leaders, this website gives short biographies of many of those involved in the Liturgical Movement (ext)
  • Lambert Beauduin
  • Odo Casel
  • Annibale Bugnini
• Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (ext)
• International Commission on English in the Liturgy
• Missal Translation Process

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