Vatican
City, 18 October 2013 (VIS) – The International Commission on
English in the Liturgy celebrates today its fiftieth anniversary.
Founded as part of the implementation of the liturgical renewal
called for by the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the
Divine Liturgy, over the past fifty years, the Commission has carried
out the enormous task of providing English translations of the texts
of the liturgy, and has also contributed to the study, understanding
and appropriation of the Church’s sacramental and euchological
tradition.
The
Pope received the members of the Commission in audience this morning,
and remarked that the fruits of their labours “have not only helped
to form the prayer of countless Catholics, but have also contributed
to the understanding of the faith, the exercise of the common
priesthood and the renewal of the Church’s missionary outreach, all
themes central to the teaching of the Council”.
The
Commission, “by enabling the vast numbers of the Catholic faithful
throughout the world to pray in a common language … has helped to
foster the Church’s unity in faith and sacramental communion. That
unity and communion, which has its origin in the Blessed Trinity, is
one which constantly reconciles and enhances the richness of
diversity” concluded the Holy Father, imparting his Apostolic
Blessing to those present.
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