Vatican Council II, Volume 1: The Conciliar and Postconciliar Documents
Overview
Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents contains the sixteen documents issued by the Second Vatican Council itself, plus a rich collection of post conciliar documents related to its implementation. These documents, in the well-known translation of Austin Flannery, provide the context for understanding the teaching of the Council and the changes it brought about in the life of the Church. Volume 1 includes the 16 original constitutions and decrees and 49 documents issued after the close of the Council.
- Links to Church Fathers, Aquinas and official documents of the Catholic Church
- Provides documents of the council and its implementation in the years that followed
- Contains thorough indexes
Top Highlights
“Though they differ essentially and not only in degree, the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial or hierarchical priesthood are none the less ordered one to another; each in its own proper way shares in the one priesthood of Christ. 18 The ministerial priest, by the sacred power that he has, forms and rules the priestly people; in the person of Christ he effects the eucharistic sacrifice and offers it to God in the name of all the people. The faithful indeed, by virtue of their royal priesthood, participate in the offering of the Eucharist. 19 They exercise that priesthood, too, by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, abnegation and active charity.” (Page 361)
“Finally, those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways. 35” (Page 367)
“But since sacred Scripture must be read and interpreted with its divine authorship in mind, 26 no less attention must be devoted to the content and unity of the whole of Scripture, taking into account the Tradition of the entire Church and the analogy of faith, if we are to derive their true meaning from the sacred texts.” (Page 758)
“The Church, however, clasping sinners to her bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows constantly the path of penance and renewal.” (Page 358)
“He has, however, willed to make men holy and save them, not as individuals without any bond or link between them, but rather to make them into a people who might acknowledge him and serve him in holiness.” (Page 359)
- Title: Vatican Council II, Volume 1: The Conciliar and Postconciliar Documents
- Author: Austin Flannery
- Edition: electronic ed. of the new revised ed.
- Series: Vatican Collection
- Volume: 1
- Publisher: Costello Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 1992
- Logos Release Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › Congresses; Catholic Church › Doctrines
- Resource ID: LLS:42.110.20
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T18:59:05Z
