Liturgical Movement

Dom Prosper Guranger

The liturgical movement is a reformist Catholic appeared in France in the mid-nineteenth ^century with the publication of the "liturgical year" of Prosper Guranger and Germany. His goal was "to make our community assemblies of prayer" (Dom Botte), by a greater knowledge and love of the liturgy and make a critical study of the liturgical tradition to extract the substance.

The "liturgical movement" began in earnest in the early twentieth ^century, in connection with a broader revival (biblical, patristic, theological, ecumenical). Belgium, France and Germany played a major role there.

Pope Pius XII promulgated in 1947, the first encyclical entirely devoted to the liturgy, Mediator Dei , and then made several liturgical reforms. In 1956, he even declared that the liturgical movement was like the "passing of the Holy Spirit in His Church" ^Pulses

Prosper Guranger

When Dom Guranger publishes "liturgical year" during the 1850s, he seeks to make known to as many foundations of the Roman liturgy, so that everyone understands, loves and respects.

Pius X

Pope Pius X , the Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini (1903), in which he called the "active participation in the mysteries and formal and solemn prayer of the Church." For the first time the expression actuosa participatio (active) to characterize the role of the laity in the liturgy: "find the true Christian spirit in its primary and indispensable source: active participation in the mysteries sacrosanct and prayer service and Solemn Church. "

Actors and locations of the liturgical movement

Lambert Beauduin

The real development of the liturgical movement began with the Catholic Congress of the Archdiocese of Mechelen in Belgium in 1909, when Lambert Beauduin expressed beliefs:

• The liturgy should be a joint action of all the faithful, not only action of the priest;
• It should become the source of Christian spirituality and spiritual life of all;
• Liturgical life should continue in the family (then also be the church liturgy);
• Beauduin proposed production missals pocket and text hours of the breviary so cheap that every family can buy;
• It provided for annual retreats choirs during which the singers should be educated in the Liturgy.

The role of youth movements

Quickborn , Scouting , Catholic colleges

Role of Benedictine abbeys

Abbey Maria Laach

• The abbey of Mont Cesar was founded in 1899 north of the city of Leuven by nine monks from the Abbey Maredsous. The liturgical movement that characterizes this abbey has wanted first pastoral with Dom Lambert Beauduin who sought to win the clergy to the liturgical question. After the First World War, the liturgical movement resumed with vigor and more internationalized. It goes deeper theological and historical from the 1930s with Don Capelle and Bernard Botte dominate liturgical thinking for decades and whose work influenced the liturgical reform of Vatican II.
• Abbey Maria Laach ,
• Abbey Beuron
• Pontifical Athenaeum San Anselmo

Role of the Jesuits

Josef Andreas Jungmann , Paul Doncoeur , Alexandre Fleury

Role of theologians

Odo Casel , Romano Guardini , Pius Parsch

Steps institutional

Institutes of liturgy

Liturgical Institute Foundation in Paris in 1943 (among the actors: Dominicans Pie Duploy and Aimone-Marie Roquet , the Benedictine Bernard Botte ) and Trier in 1947 ( Balthasar Fischer ).

National and International Congresses

Many national and international conferences on liturgy, the most important internationally were Maria Laach 1951, Mont Sainte-Odile near Strasbourg, 1952, Lugano, 1953, Mount Caesar (Louvain) 1954, Assisi 1956, Montserrat (Spain) 1958 , Nijmegen (Netherlands) 1959, Munich 1960.

New publications of liturgical books

In the years 1958-1962 and several documents seemed little touched liturgical books with the interest of some conservative circles of the Roman Curia to anticipate further reform to avoid it. These books are now again allowed for traditionalist Catholics.

Preparation of Vatican II

Pope John XXIII announced an ecumenical council January 25, 1959. During the preparations, the reform of the liturgy was one of the most pressing topics.

On December 4, 1963, the Second Vatican Council publishes the constitution " Sacrosanctum Concilium "on the liturgy.

Bibliography

The liturgical movement

• Bernard Botte , the liturgical movement. Testimony and memories. Paris: Descle, 1973.

The liturgical reform

• Annibale Bugnini La Riforma Liturgica. Roma 1983, 2nd ed. 1997 (Bibliotheca Ephemerides Liturgicae collection. Subsidia 30).
• The liturgy after Vatican II. Assessments, studies, prospective. By Yves Congar and a. Paris 1967 (Collection Unam Sanctam 66).
• Adrien Nocent , the liturgical renewal. A review. Paris 1993 (Collection Theological Point 58).

Notes

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