Audience: Anyone

Description: Excerpt from Stewards of the Tradition – Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium: A Statement by the Committee on Divine Worship. © 2013 USCCB:

As we entered into the Year of Faith, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI invited the Church to attentive reflection on the documents of Vatican II. . . . [It] is important to recall that the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy was the fruit of the evolution of the Church's teaching on the Liturgy, especially from the early years of the last century. The reformed Liturgy was the result of extensive historical scholarship and reflection on pastoral needs, and it was carried out by the specially-created Consilium under the direction of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (later to become the Congregation for Divine Worship) and Venerable Pope Paul VI. . . . We believe that the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy should be understood as a "keystone," with both a history leading to it and other developments flowing from it.

In this Small Group we shall study the Vatican II document, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy). This was the first document developed by the Second Vatican Council and was promulgated by His Holiness Pope Saint Paul VI on December 4, 1963. The Council Fathers emphasize: “the Liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed” (Article 10, Sacrosanctum Concilium).

This Small Group will be offered during Lent 2024.

Small Group Meeting dates are as follows:

Dates/Times:  Four 1-hour sessions on Wednesday evenings, starting at 6:00 p.m., from February 21, 2024 through March 20, 2024, as follows:

• February 21, 2024 - Session 1
  
• February 28, 2024 - Session 2
• No session on March 6, 2024
• March 13, 2024 - Session 3
  
• March 20, 2024 - Session 4