{"id":3,"date":"2004-05-19T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3"},"modified":"2004-05-19T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T00:03:15","slug":"vatican-document-on-the-liturgy-redemptionis-sacramentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2004-05-19\/vatican-document-on-the-liturgy-redemptionis-sacramentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican document on the Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican recently released a new Instruction on the Liturgy:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/ccdds\/documents\/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html\">Redemptionis Sacramentum<br \/>\n<em>On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided<br \/>\nregarding the Most Holy Eucharist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how little there is new in the document: it&#8217;s combining and collection theories and rules from other documents through the years, emphasizing some points and clarifying some roles, but it&#8217;s not &#8216;new laws&#8217; by any stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicism.about.com\/cs\/vatican\/a\/redempsacra04.htm\">Some writers<\/a> claim that this Instruction &#8220;ends abuse&#8221; in the Mass. But seriouly, this document only states preexisting law. It is up to the bishops to enforce the law and promote a prayerful and wondrous celebration of the Eucharist in their diocese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican recently released a new Instruction on the Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist It&#8217;s amazing how little there is new in the document: it&#8217;s combining and collection theories and rules from other documents through the years, emphasizing some points and clarifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}