Some of the most notable changes were in performance of the Mass, including that vernacular languages could be authorized as well as the Latin.

Oct 11, 2022 · As the changes took places, active liturgical participation increased dramatically in many local church communities. - Lay ministries multiplied ...

Apr 23, 2024 · Vatican II also made profound changes in the liturgical practices of the Roman rite. It approved the translation of the liturgy into vernacular ...

Oct 11, 2012 · Vatican II decreed that altars should be turned around, and priests faced the newly recognized people of God — that is, the entire community of ...

Dec 9, 2021 · The new focus was that the Church exists to evangelize the world, and primarily this happens through laypeople. So laypeople need to be well ...

Oct 8, 2012 · Things changed with the Second Vatican Council. No one disputes that the Catholic faith remained what it has always been.

Another important result of the Vatican II reform was the permission given for the Mass to be celebrated in vernacular languages rather than in Latin, and the ...

Oct 13, 2022 · Vatican II teaches us that the Eucharist is the source and the summit of our entire spiritual life (Lumen Gentium, 11). Therefore, the liturgy ...

Oct 10, 2022 · The idea of the pope who convened the council, Pope John XXIII, was that the church should renew itself and find new, less defensive, ways to be ...

Jun 14, 2022 · Among the reforms of Vatican II, which took place from 1962-1965, was the approval of the translation of the liturgy from Latin into vernacular ...