Vatican II Series - Part II - Notes

Session 2 – Word and Sacrament

• Word (Dei Verbum) and Sacrament (Sacrosanctum Concilium)
• Word
• Nov 18, 1965 – voted 2344 to 6
• Luther – Sola Scriptura vs. Tradition; accessibility of the Word
• Newman – Development of Doctrine
• Catholic Biblical Scholarship
• Expanded view of revelation: what is revelation
• What is revelation?
• DV 2 – God’s own sharing of His life with us, God’s self-communication to us
• DV 8 – Revelation is complete, but our understanding of it grows
• What is the relationship between Scripture and Tradition?
• Trent: Scripture and Tradition exist together
• Vatican I: Ditto
• DV 9 – Close connection between the two; “it is not from Sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed.”
• DV 9 – Magisterium is not above the Word of God, but serves it, it teaches only what has been handed on
• Scripture Scholarship
• DV 12 – Scholarship should search out the intention of the sacred writers, paying attention to the literary forms
• Scripture in the life of the Church
• Preaching – homilies should deal with the Scripture heard (although not exclusively)
• Teaching (theological studies)
• Study (easy access to all) – Bible Study
• Translation
• Questions
• Vatican II and the “lost gospels”, etc.
• Scripture is part of Tradition, right?
• Personal notes
• No mention of DV 11 regarding the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture
• Sacrament
• December 12, 1963 – 2174 to 4
• Context: Luther, abuses, Trent
• “Hearing” Mass
• Liturgical Movement of the 1920’s (actually started earlier)
• Changes by the Popes throughout history
• Especially in the decades before Vatican II
• Source and Summit
• SC 10 – Summit of the Church’s activity, font from which her power flows
• SC 7 – Various modes of Christ’s presence in the liturgy
• Priest, Eucharist, word, prayer
• (Also in the Prayer of the Faithful – that is, in the poor, weak, wounded, ill, etc.)
• Full, Conscious, and Active Participation
• SC 14 – Participation in the Mass is the right of every Catholic by baptism
• Vernacular
• SC 36 – Latin remains in use, but vernacular is permitted
• Sacred Art and Architecture
• Place of tabernacle
• Statues, etc.
• Implementation of Vatican II
• The 1970 Missal of Pope Paul VI
• Bishops Conferences
• Understanding of the Church (1965-1975)