The Collects of the Roman Missals

A Comparative Study of the Sundays in Proper Seasons before and after the Second Vatican Council

Lauren Pristas

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780567033840
• eBook ISBN: 9780567585967
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Theology

This study examines the collects assigned to the Sundays and major feasts of the proper seasons in the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman rite. The Latin collects assigned to each day in the typical editions of the respective missals are compared and contrasted both with their respective sources and with one another. Pertinent discussions and decisions of the Consilium study groups responsible for the post-Vatican II revisions of the liturgical calendar and Mass collects are also presented and considered. The goal of the study is to determine whether the two sets of collects present the same picture of the human situation, approach God in the same way, seek the same things from him, and, where they do not, to identify significant changes in theological and/or spiritual emphases.

T&T Clark Studies in Fundamental Liturgy offer cutting-edge scholarship from all disciplines related to liturgical study. The books in the series seek to reintegrate biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry. Volumes in the series include monographs, translations of recent texts and edited collections around very specific themes.

Edited by

Laurence Paul Hemming

Susan Frank Parsons

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Collects of the
Roman Missals

A Comparative Study of the
Sundays in Proper Seasons
before and after the Second
Vatican Council

Lauren Pristas

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ISBN: 978–0–567–58596–7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pristas, Lauren

The Collects of the Roman Missals of 1962 and 2002/Lauren Pristas p.cm

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN 978–0–567–03383–3 (hardcover) – ISBN 978–0–567–03384–0 (paperback)

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In memory of my mother

Nihil Obstat

M. Kathleen Flanagan, S.C., Ph.D.

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Imprimatur

Most Reverend Arthur J. Serratelli, S.T.D., S.S.L., D.D.

Bishop of Paterson

16 October 2012

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Author’s Preface

1Introduction and Background

The State of the Question

Scope, Method, and Goal

The Consilium: Organization and Working Methods

Two Coetus: De Calendario and De Missali

Revision Policies

Conclusion

2Resources

Materials Pertaining to the Revision of the Collects

Materials Useful for Source Identification

3Advent

Introduction

The Origins and Development of Advent at Rome

The Collects

Conclusion

4Christmas

The Calendar

Collects

Conclusion

5Septuagesima

Duration, Origin, Nature, and Purpose of Septuagesima

The Suppression of Septuagesima

The Collects of Septuagesima

Conclusion

6Lent

Introduction

The Nature of Lent and Lenten Observance

The Consilium Coetus

The Collects

Conclusion

7Paschaltide

The Calendar

The Collects

Conclusion

8Summary and Conclusion

The Uniqueness of the Post-Vatican II Reform

The Handling of Sources

Centonization

Character of the Collect

Comparative Evaluation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index of Prayers

Index of Scriptural Citations

General Index

Acknowledgments

The research for this book was made possible by an appointment to the Pope John Paul II Chair for the Study of Person and Community at the Intercultural Forum of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., a Research Fellowship in Liturgical Theology from the Society of Saint Catherine of Siena, and both a leave and a sabbatical from Caldwell College. I am especially grateful to Archbishop J. Augustine DiNoia, O.P., Rev Richard Schenk, O.P., and Donald Cardinal Wuerl for the time at the Intercultural Forum, to Dr Laurence Hemming and Mr Ferdinand Knapp for the support of the Society of Saint Catherine of Siena, to Sister Patrice Werner, O.P. and Dr Paul Douillard for the leaves from Caldwell College.

All the Consilium schemata quoted or referred to in this article are on file at the offices of the Secretariat of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy in Washington, D.C. I am grateful to Rev Msgr Bruce Harbert and Mr Peter Finn, and more recently t...

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