Additional documents courtesy Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
Many documents in this collection are older English translations. At the time of this printing, more contemporary translations were not available. In order to provide context for the history of the Liturgical Movement, the editors felt it necessary to include the translations that were available at the time this collection was published.
THE LITURGY DOCUMENTS, VOLUME THREE: FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS ON THE ORIGINS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM 2013 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 3949 South Racine Avenue, Chicago IL 60609; 1-800-933-1800, fax 1-800-933-7094, e-mail .
The Church earnestly desires that all the faithful be led to that full, conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations called for by the very nature of the liturgy. Such participation by the Christian people as a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Gods own people (1 Pt 2:9; see 2:4 5) is their right and duty by reason of their baptism.
In the reform and promotion of the liturgy, this full and active participation by all the people is the aim to be considered before all else. For it is the primary and indispensable source from which the faithful are to derive the true Christian spirit....
ABBREVIATIONS
Many texts listed here appear in Documents on the Liturgy, 19631979: Conciliar, Papal and Curial Texts (DOL) (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1982). This list is not all-inclusive of liturgical documents promulgated before and after the Second Vatican Council.
AAS Acta Apostolicae Sedis
ADA Abhinc duos annos
AG Ad gentes divinitus
BB Book of Blessings
BCDW Bishops Committee on Divine Worship
BCL Bishops Committee on the Liturgy
BG Book of the Gospels
BLS Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship
c.; cc. canon; canons
CB Ceremonial of Bishops
CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church
CCCB Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
CCEC Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Codex canonum Ecclesiarum orientalium)
CCL Corpus christianorum, Series Latina
CD Christus Dominus
CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
CDWDS Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
CEILT Criteria for the Evaluation of Inclusive Language Translations of Scriptural Texts Proposed for Liturgical Use
CHP The Church at Prayer: A Holy Temple of the Lord
CI Christian Initiation, General Introduction
CIC 1983 Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)
1917 CIC 1917 Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)
CMBVM(L) Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Lectionary
CMBVM(M) Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Missal
CP Comme le prvoit
CR Congregation of Rites
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
CSL Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
CSP Chirograph of the Supreme Pontiff
CT Catechesi tradendae
DA Divino afflatu
DD Dies Domini sanctitatem
DE Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism
DedCh Dedication of a Church and an Altar
DMC Directory for Masses with Children
DOL Documents on the Liturgy (ICEL)
DSCAP Directory on Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest
DSV De solemni vigilia paschali instauranda
DV Dei Verbum
EACW Environment and Art in Catholic Worship
EE Ecclesia de Eucharistia
EM Eucharisticum mysterium
FYH Fulfilled in Your Hearing: The Homily in the Sunday Assembly
GCSPD Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities
GILOH General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours
GIRM The General Instruction of the Roman Missal
GMEF Gods Mercy Endures Forever: Guidelines on the Presentation of Jews and Judaism in Catholic Preaching
GS Gaudium et spes
GSF Gathered in Steadfast Faith: Statement of the Bishops Committee on Liturgy on Sunday Worship in the Absence of a Priest
HCWEOM Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass
HLS This Holy and Living Sacrifice: Directory for the Celebration and Reception of Communion under Both Kinds
IO Inter Oecumenici
IST In Spirit and Truth: Black Catholic Reflections on the Order of Mass
LA Liturgiam authenticam
LG Lumen gentium
LHSOI Liturgicus hebdomadae sanctae Ordo instauratur
LI Liturgicae instaurationes
LM Lectionary for Mass
LMT Liturgical Music Today
MC Mirae caritatis
MCC Mystici Corporis Christi
MCW Music in Catholic Worship
MD Mediator Dei
MS Musicam sacram
MSD Musicae sacrae disciplina
MSSL De Musica sacra et sacra Liturgia
n.; nn. number; numbers
NCCB National Conference of Catholic Bishops
NDRHC Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion Under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America
NSC National Statutes on the Catechumenate
OCF Order of Christian Funerals
OE Orientalium Ecclesiarum
OEx Ordo Exsequiarum, 1969
OT Optatam totius
PCS Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum
PG Patrologiae cursus completus: Series Graeca
PGR Plenty Good Room: The Spirit and Truth of African American Catholic Worship
PL Patrologiae cursus completus: Series Latina
PO Presbyterorum Ordinis
PS Paschale solemnitatis
RBC Rite of Baptism for Children
RC/ RConf Rite of Confirmation
RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
RM/ RomM The Roman Missal
RMarr Rite of Marriage
RP Roman Pontifical
RPen Rite of Penance
RS Redemptionis sacramentum
RT Ratio translationis
SacCar Sacramentum caritatis
SacCom