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This 5 page paper discuses certain aspects of Pope Pius XII's encyclical and documents from the Second Vatican Council in terms of the liturgy of the Catholic Church. Included in this discussion are some of the changes in the liturgy that emerged from these documents. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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(Liturgy, p. 320). By the fourth century, the word was used to mean the Mass (Liturgy, p. 320). Historically, a universal understanding of what the word liturgy means was not
achieved before Vatican II and Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Mediator Dei (Liturgy, p. 320). By that time, one of the more common definitions of liturgy was "the worship offered to
God by the Church itself" (Liturgy, p. 321). In Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII wrote: The sacred liturgy is, consequently, the public worship which our Redeemer as Head of the
Church renders to the Father, as well as the worship which the community of the faithful renders to its Founder, and through Him to the heavenly Father. It is, in
short, the worship rendered by the Mystical Body of Christ in the entirety of its Head and members (Pope Pius XII, 1947). Paraphrased, the liturgy then is the "whole
public worship of the mystical body of Christ, head and members" (Liturgy, p. 321). As this author explains, there is only a liturgy "when a divine service is held by
a legitimately assembled group of the faithful . . . under the leadership of someone holding office in the Church" (Liturgy, p. 321). So, liturgy is a public service led
by an official of the Church and attended by faithful members of the church. Although the Popes encyclical clarified the sacred liturgy of the church, there continues to be
many interpretations and discussions regarding the specific traits of this liturgy. What authors and scholars do agree on is that the "worship of the Church is accomplished most perfectly in
the celebration of the Eucharist" (Liturgy, p. 322). The Eucharist, however, does not constitute the divine or sacred liturgy itself. Vatican II and the Popes Mediator Dei represented
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