Liturgical Commission
Warns Against Experimentation
VATICAN CITY — The Church
body charged with coordinating
the ecumenical council’s liturgical
reforms has warned against exper
imentation by persons claiming a
general permission.
The Consilium (commission) for
the Implementation of the Litur
gy Constitution, in the June num
ber of its publication, Notitiate,
which was published early in July,
declared that aside from one case
it has “never given any general
indult to begin experimentation.”
The one exception, it said, was
a temporary indult for experimen
tation in concelebration and Com
munion under both species, granted
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keynote a three-day conference on
human relations for Southern
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Archbishop Hallinan’s topic,
“The Church in Society,” will be
addressed to clerical and lay dele
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ence. The meeting is co-sponsored
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tolate, and diocesan involvement
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are Mr. Rudolph Lombard, nation
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drew J. Young, executive director
of the Southern Christian Leader
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Vivian, director of affiliates, SCLC.
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of 25 dioceses from Virginia to
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from July 3, 1964, until April 15,
1965, after which the general de
cree on these practices went into
effect.
THE CONSILIUM said the lit
urgy constitution provides that
authority for such general experi
mentations will be granted to
territorial bodies of bishops by the
Holy See. They are to be perform
ed only by determined groups
suited for such experiments and
for a determined length of time.
“If the Consilium permits ex
periments,” Notitiae said, “it will
always communicate the faculty
to permorm them to territorial ec
clesiastical authority, and this in
writing, with the addition of con
ditions and limits within which the
experiment! may be performed.
“Likewise when rites or cere
monies or innovations of any kind
seem out of harmony with today’s
laws in liturgical matters, all of
them are to be considered ‘per
sonal’ innovations, arising from
‘private agitation’ . . . and by that
very fact disapproved by the con
stitution and the Consilium.”
CLARIFYING DOUBTS arising
in the interpretation of the lit
urgy constitution, Notitiae said it
is permissable to celebrate Mass
in the vernacular even if those
assisting do not actually partici
pate by making responses.
Answering another difficulty
concerning the use of the laity to
read the Epistles and lessons or
perform the function of com
mentator, Notitiae noted that
even in houses of Religious wom
en or girls’ schools, the Epistles
and lessons must be read by a
man. Women, however, can per
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form the function of commentator
in a restricted sense: they can '“as
it were, lead singing or prayers.”
Notitiae set down the general
guidelines the Consilium will fol
low in proposing liturgical
changes. “Only those elements are
to be set forth which already man
ifest some sort of certainty on the
part of the Consilium. Others, al
though they may have been dis
cussed and examined frequently,
will simply be omitted if they
seem not yet sufficiently mature.”
Expressions used by the Consil
ium, such as “it has pleased the
Fathers” or “the Fathers have giv
en their vote” or “they have ap
proved,” are to be accepted in a
broad sense. That is, Notitiae
said, “they show the mind of the
Consilium, not the definitive solu
tion to oquestions. “In the pursuit
of their work, a matter can be
established otherwise if new ele
ments arise...
“It is especially superfluous to
note that the judgment of the
Consilium constitutes no binding
rule for ultimate and definitive ap
probation by supreme authority.”
TWO PROPOSALS, reported out
out of the committees of experts
at work within the Consilium,
were published in Notitiae. One
concerned the general principles
or criteria for the reform of the
liturgical calendar. The other con
cerned the redistribution of
psalms in the priests’ breviary.
In the former, it was proposed
that the calendar of saints’ feasts
be revised to represent more
equally saints from various re
gions “so that it is demonstrated
that sanctity is diffused through
out the universal Church, avoid
ing making the Roman calendar a
Mediterranean calendar.” The
committee specifically proposed
by way of example the inclusion
of the Japanese, Canadian and
Uganda martyrs.
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It was suggested that several
saints’ feasts be assigned to the
same day, leaving an option on
which is to be celebrated.
As guidelines for the selection
of saints for the universal calen
dar, the committee proposed the
retention of all the Apostles and
Evangelists, of all the more an
cient martyrs who are universally
celebrated or have a special uni
versal import for the life of the
Church, and of a selection from
all areas of Church life — clerical
and lay. The “major” doctors of
the Church are to be retained,
while the “minor” ones are to be
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should be kept in the universal
calendar whose lives have a uni
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either because of the particular
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