Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-2pzkn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-01T20:33:19.568Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Revised Roman Liturgy and the Gospel Restored: The Problems and Promises of a Crucial Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

John Barry Ryan
John Barry Ryan*
Affiliation:
Manhattan College
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A major work of reform of the Roman liturgy was the restoration of more extensive biblical selections at the worship of the church. This article studies the reform insofar as it applies to the use of the New Testament at the liturgy of the hours, at mass, and in the other rites of the church. It judges the restoration to be admirable from a theoretical viewpoint. However, before this reform can take root, serious problems in the practical order must be addressed. The reform places pressures on the liturgical homilist, the celebrant of the liturgy of the hours, the faithful who hear the Word, and those who plan liturgies.

Type
Articles
Information
Horizons , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 1980 , pp. 37 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © The College Theology Society 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Jounel, Pierre, “The Bible in the Liturgy,” in Martimort, A. G. (ed.), The Liturgy and the Word of God (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1959), pp. 1–20.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., pp. v-ix.

3 Ciferni, Andrew and Mayer, Lawrence, “The Liturgy of the Hours,” Worship 50 (1976), 329–35Google Scholar; Duggan, Paul, “The Liturgy of the Hours,” Worship 51 (1977), 307–15.Google Scholar

4 Kahlefeld, H., “Ordo lectionum missae,” Liturgisches Jahrbuch 3 (1953), 54–59, 301–309Google Scholar; Jounel, Pierre, “Pour une réforme des lectures du Missel,” La Maison-Dieu No. 66 (1961), 36–69.Google Scholar

5 Easter/Lent put this way means to emphasize the fifty day Easter season and to show the subordinate but important preparatory role of Lent, so too with Christmas/Advent.

6 Fontaine, Gaston, Commentarius ad Ordinem Lectionum Missae (Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1969), p. 13.Google Scholar

7 Sloyan, Gerard, “The Lectionary as a Context for Interpretation,” Interpretation 31 (1977), 134–35.Google Scholar

8 Henderson, J. Frank, “The Chrism Mass of Holy Thursday,” Worship 51 (1977), 149–58Google Scholar, makes this point about the whole chrism mass.