Eucharistic Concelebration From Symbol to Reality

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CHAPTER I. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF EucHARisTic CONCELEBRATION 7 1) Important stages prior to the Second Vatican Council 7 2) The Second Vatican Council and its immediate implementation 17 a) The text of Sacrosanctum Concilium. 17 b) The development of the text of Sacrosanctum Concilium 19 c) The reasons from Sacrosanctum Concilium 25 d) The decree Presbyterorum Ordinis 27 3) Implementing texts and canon law 28 a) The Ritus servandus in concelebratione Missx (The Rite to be observed for the concelebration of Mass) 28 b) The instruction Eucharisticum Mystenum 32 c) The subsequent implementing texts 33 d) Codes of canon law 37 CHAPTER II. UNITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD: REALITY AND REPRESENTATION 41 1) Unity of Ministerial Priesthood 42 a) A text by St. Thomas Aquinas 42 b) Ontological unity of ministerial priesthood 44 c) Manifestation of unity of ministerial priesthood 45 2) Presbyterate and Brotherhood 47 a) Unity of the diocesan presbyterate 47 b) Priestly brotherhood 49 c) Ministerial priesthood in the service of common priesthood 52 CHAPTER III. CONFIGURATION OF THE PRIEST TO CHRIST IN EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION: SOME THEOLOGICAL-PASTORAL CONSIDERATIONS 1) The priest`s personal union with Christ during the celebration 59 2) Clarity of the Sign 63 a) Common priesthood and ministerial priesthood:two modes of participation 64 b) Pronunciation of the words of consecration 66 c) Distance to the altar and the force of meaning of the words of consecration 71 d) Other priestly words and gestures 76 e) Theological meaning of the position of the priest to the altar and his vestments 79 3) To Concelebrate or Not? 83 a) The freedom to concelebrate or not 83 b) The option to concelebrate or not 84