Word: vernacularized
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...bare, tablelike altars; at the same time, many Protestant ministers have come to recognize the validity of more ceremony in worship, and are celebrating Communion every Sunday with Eucharistic vestments, candles, and even incense. Thanks to changes inspired by the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Mass in the vernacular features such venerable Protestant institutions as longer sermons, lay readers, and full-throated congregational singing...
...changes are breaks with tradition; some represent the discarding of a recent for a much older tradition. In religion, for example, some new trends have been startling and even disturbing. Yet such drives as the ecumenical movement and use of the liturgy in the vernacular are really intended to recover the forms of an older, deeper Christianity. From the churches to the laboratories, change itself has become the only constant. Says Stanford's Dr. Dwight Allen: "We are not shifting from one sort of tradition to another; we are in flux for keeps. We have to adjust institutions, attitudes...
...survey course, Hum 9 will leapfrog the period roughly from 2000 B.C. to the present. It will deal with the literature of the Ancient Near East, the Bible, and the ancients, and the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages, which marks the first recording of some of man's earliest creative expression. Old Norse sagas, Celtic legend, Irish mythology, and modern folklore and songs of both Europe and of some non-literate societies will also be examined...
Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., De Pauw last spring formed his tiny movement, which seeks to restore the all-Latin Mass in U.S. parishes. De Pauw argued that the council's adoption of the vernacular was "protestantizing" the Mass, and that the bishops had been duped into accepting it by left-wing theologians. Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw's superior, angrily ordered him to get out of the movement...
...document that has already changed the spiritual life of the church is the constitution On the Liturgy, which led to widespread introduction of vernacular languages in the Mass. Another constitution, On the Church, asserting that bishops collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope, is the charter for what many theologians feel will be a slow, subtle but unstoppable process of democratization within the church. The decree On the Apostolate of the Laity gives greater freedom and responsibility to Catholic laymen...