Liturgical movement

The liturgical movement is a current catholic reformer appeared in France in the middle of the 19th century with the publication of “the liturgical year” of Prosper Guéranger. Its objective was “to make our assemblies of the communities of prayer” (Dom Botte), by the best knowledge and the love of the liturgy and to make a critical study of the liturgical tradition to extract the substance from it.

De Dom Guéranger with saint Black and white X:

When Dom Guéranger publishes " the year liturgique" during the years 1850, He seeks to make known with the greatest number the bases of the Roman liturgy, so that each one includes/understands it, likes it and respects it. With its death in 1875, this objective is achieved, indeed the whole of the French diocese gave up the liturgies gallicanes and returned to the liturgy tridentine

One distinguishes two major goals in this pastoral current:

to cause the “revival of enthusiasm of the clergy and faithful for the liturgy”
“finding the true spirit Christian with its source first and essential: the active participation with the mysteries sacro-saints and the public and solemn prayer of the Church.” Magpie X, " Tra the sollecitudini" of November 22nd, 1903.

Of saint Black and white X with Mediator Dei

the Abbaye of the Mount César was founded in 1899 in the north of the town of Leuwen by nine monks come from the Abbaye of Maredsous. The liturgical movement which characterizes this abbey is wanted pastoral first of all with dom Lambert Beauduin which sought to gain the clergy with the liturgical cause. After the First World War, the liturgical movement begins again with strength and is internationalized more. It gains in-depth theological and historical as from the years 1930 with dom Capelle and dom Botte which dominates the liturgical thought during several decades and whose work influences the liturgical reform of the Vatican II.

In November 1947, the pope Pie XII publishes the encyclical Mediator Dei, whose object is to point out the theological bases of the liturgy and to organize the practical principles of them.

The council the Vatican II

In 1963, the council the Vatican II publishes the dogmatic constitution " Sacrosanctum concilium " on the liturgy.

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