Mediator Dei: devotional approach to the mystery of Christ.
Catholic Insight › Vol. 5 Nbr. 9, November 1997
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Mediator Dei: devotional approach to the mystery of Christ.
Nothing is more important for Catholics than the Church's public worship in which she continues the priestly office of Jesus Christ. Consequently, the Church devotes to it the greatest attention. Fifty years ago, on November 20, 1947, as a point of culmination of a hundred years of liturgical studies and research, Pope Pius XII published the encyclical Mediator Dei (Jesus, Mediator between God and man. . .). Then, in 1963, the Second Vatican Council adopted as its first document the decree Sacrosanctum concilium, which envisaged renewed forms of worship. Ever since, the liturgy has been a much-debated issue, sometimes heatedly so.
Fr. John Mole of Ottawa is a long-time commentator on liturgical developments. Here he draws attention to our need to see these two documents as...See the full content of this document
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