8 :15), and thus become true adorers whom the Father seeks. Thus by baptism men are plunged into the paschal mystery of Christ: they die with Him, are buried with Him, and rise with Him they receive the spirit of adoption as sons 'in which we cry: Abba, Father' ( Rom. His purpose also was that they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves. This He did that, by preaching the gospel to every creature, they might proclaim that the Son of God, by His death and resurrection, had freed us from the power of Satan and from death, and brought us into the kingdom of His Father. Just as Christ was sent by the Father, so also He sent the apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit. For it was from the side of Christ as He slept the sleep of death upon the cross that there came forth 'the wondrous sacrament of the whole Church'.

He achieved His task principally by the paschal mystery of His blessed passion, resurrection from the dead, and the glorious ascension, whereby 'dying, he destroyed our death and, rising, he restored our life'.

The wonderful works of God among the people of the Old Testament were but a prelude to the work of Christ the Lord in redeeming mankind and giving perfect glory to God. Therefore in Christ 'the perfect achievement of our reconciliation came forth, and the fullness of divine worship was given to us'. For His humanity, united with the person of the Word, was the instrument of our salvation. 1:1), when the fullness of time had come sent His Son, the Word made flesh, anointed by the Holy Spirit, to preach the the gospel to the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, to be a 'bodily and spiritual medicine', the Mediator between God and man. 2:4), 'who in many and various ways spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets' (Heb. God who 'wills that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth' (1 Tim.

The Nature of the Sacred Liturgy and Its Importance in the Church's Lifeĥ. GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE RESTORATION AND PROMOTION OFġ. The Council also desires that, where necessary, the rites be revised carefully in the light of sound tradition, and that they be given new vigor to meet the circumstances and needs of modern times. Lastly, in faithful obedience to tradition, the sacred Council declares that holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way. The practical norms which follow, however, should be taken as applying only to the Roman rite, except for those which, in the very nature of things, affect other rites as well.Ĥ. Wherefore the sacred Council judges that the following principles concerning the promotion and reform of the liturgy should be called to mind, and that practical norms should be established.Īmong these principles and norms there are some which can and should be applied both to the Roman rite and also to all the other rites. While the liturgy daily builds up those who are within into a holy temple of the Lord, into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ, at the same time it marvelously strengthens their power to preach Christ, and thus shows forth the Church to those who are outside as a sign lifted up among the nations under which the scattered children of God may be gathered together, until there is one sheepfold and one shepherd. It is of the essence of the Church that she be both human and divine, visible and yet invisibly equipped, eager to act and yet intent on contemplation, present in this world and yet not at home in it and she is all these things in such wise that in her the human is directed and subordinated to the divine, the visible likewise to the invisible, action to contemplation, and this present world to that city yet to come, which we seek. For the liturgy, 'through which the work of our redemption is accomplished,' most of all in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives, and manifest to others, the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church. The Council therefore sees particularly cogent reasons for undertaking the reform and promotion of the liturgy.Ģ. This sacred Council has several aims in view: it desires to impart an ever increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful to adapt more suitably to the needs of our own times those institutions which are subject to change to foster whatever can promote union among all who believe in Christ to strengthen whatever can help to call the whole of mankind into the household of the Church. [ AR - BE - CS - DE - EN - ES - FR - IT - HU - LA - LV -ġ.

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