Question

make a critical analysis of What is Sancrosanctum Concilium

Answer 1

One of the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council is the Sacrosanctum Concilium, a Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. By a vote of 2,147 to 4, it was approved by the assembled bishops and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 4 December 1963. The primary goal was to promote greater lay involvement in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. The title is taken from the document's opening lines and means 'this Sacred Council.'

This holy council has many goals in mind: it wishes to give the Christian life of the faithful an ever-increasing vigour; to adapt those structures that are subject to reform more adequately to the needs of our own times; to foster whatever can encourage union of all those who believe in Christ; to improve whatever can help to call the whole of humanity into the Church's household. Therefore, the Council finds the grounds for pursuing reform and promotion of the liturgy to be especially cogent.

The fathers of the council set guidelines for the renewal of the liturgy, which included, permitted, and encouraged, in addition to Latin, a greater use of the vernacular (native language), especially for biblical readings and other prayers. Under the authority of Pope Paul VI, the implementation of the council's liturgical directives was to be carried out by a special papal commission, later incorporated into the Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and, in the areas entrusted to them, by national conferences of bishops, who, if they had a common language, were expected to collaborate in the production of co-ordination.