Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines
Overview
The Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is responsible for upholding the Church’s traditions, teachings, and disciplines concerning the Sacraments—especially as they are performed through the Mass and the liturgy of the Church. These documents, authored by the same Congregation, uphold the Second Vatican Council’s teachings and explain how to intregrate them into the Church’s liturgies. With these essential writings, discover how the Catholic Church brings Vatican II to the Mass and honors the Sacraments with instructions for every diocese around the globe. Learn exactly how Sancrosanctum Concilium works out in the Church today.
Top Highlights
“The faithful should be made conscious of the preeminence of the Liturgy over any other possible form of legitimate Christian prayer. While sacramental actions are necessary to life in Christ, the various forms of popular piety are properly optional. Such is clearly proven by the Church’s precept which obliges attendance at Sunday Mass. No such obligation, however, has obtained with regard to pious exercises, notwithstanding their worthiness or their widespread diffusion. Such, however, may be assumed as obligations by a community or by individual members of the faithful.” (source)
“A dualism, however, prevailed between Liturgy and popular piety” (source)
“Popular piety should be permeated by: a biblical spirit” (source)
“a weakening of a senses of the universal priesthood” (source)
“Access is possible: Christ is the door. It was opened for you when his side was opened by the lance. Remember what flowed out from his side: thus, choose where you want to enter Christ. From the side of Christ as he hung dying upon the Cross there flowed out blood and water, when it was pierced by a lance. Your purification is in that water, your redemption is in that blood’184.” (source)
- Title: Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines
- Author: Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Publisher: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Catholic Church › Liturgy; Piety; Liturgical adaptation › Catholic Church
- Resource ID: LLS:DRCTRYPPLRPTYLT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:37:07Z