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VATICAN CITY.—In line with the Ecumenical Council's liturgy c onstitution, Pope Paul VI has provided for changes in the public worship of the Church to begin on February 16. They include mandatory sermons at Masses on Sundays and Holy Days and put the administration of the sacrament of Matrimony within the Mass rather than before it.
The Pope also announced the establishment of a special commission which will be entrusted with the long-range work of revising the missal, breviary and other liturgical books. The new document, entitled "Sacram Liturgiam," is a motu proprio, the name given an instruction issued by the Pope on his own initiative, rather than suggested by a congregation of the Roman Curia or some other body. While published on January 28. it bears the date of January 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
11 Provisions The document authorises the implementation of 11 specific provisions of the liturgical constitution enacted by the Second Vatican Council last December 4. Some changes concern the Breviary, the book containing the Divine Office which priests are required to recite every day. Also as of February 16. which is the first Sunday of Lent, the sacrament of Confirmation may be conferred during Mass. In the introduction to the 1,400-word document, Pope Paul cited the concern which Popes and bishops have always had for enhancing the liturgy. He stressed the necessity for all priests and lay people to study the liturgical constitution thoroughly and to acvept its provisions. Diocesan bishops are urged to make sure that their people understand the value and significance of the liturgy and take part actively and piously in the Church's worship. The Pope's instructions thus seek to make effective the constitution's assertion that the "full and active participation by all the people is the aim to be considered before all else" in the work of renewing the liturgy.
PREPARATION The papal document notes than many provisions of the liturgical constitution cannot be put into
effect within a short period of time, because some of the liturgical rites must be revised and new liturgical texts must be prepared. It is for this work that the Pope is establishing a special commission. But the make-up of the commission was not immediately detailed. PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION TO GO INTO FORCE ON FEBRUARY 16 BY VIRTUE OF THE POPE'S MOTU PROPRIO ARE: SEMINARIES and religious houses of study must prepare now to carry out Articles 15, 16 and 17 of the constitution. which make comprehensive study of the liturgy a compulsOry and major course in studies for the priesthood. There must be a start in implementing the provisions of the three articles within the next year. DIOCESAN comrrtissions for promoting the liturgical movement must be established, in line with Article 45. And every diocese should set up commissions for sacred music and sacred art if at all possible (Article 46). AS OF February 16. the sermon during Masses on Sundays and Holy Days
becomes obligatory (Article 35). THE FACULTY of administering Confirmation during the celebration of Mass goes into effect on February 16 (Article 71). THE SACRAMENT of Marriage must normally be celebrated within the Mass„ after the reading of the Gospel and the homily (Article 78). If Matrimony is celebrated apart from the Mass, it is required that at the beginning of the ceremony. after a brief exhortation that the Epistle and Gospel of the Nuptial Mass be read and that tie_ ritual blessing be given to the spouses.
SHORTER PRIESTS in reciting the Divine Office privately may omit the hour of Prime, and select from among the three minor hours of Terce, Sext and None the one which best fits the time of day (Article 89). DIOCESAN bishops may. in special cases and for well-considered reasons, dispense from the obligation to recite the Office, either in whole or in part, or permit substitution for it of other prayer (Article 97). WHERE permission is granted for the recitation of the Divine Office in the vernacular in nonclerical religious communities, the translation to be used must be submitted '.or the approval of the Holy See (Article 101). T H E " TERRITORIAL " bodies of bishops entrusted to some extent with regulation of the liturgy within their areas must be the legitimately constituted national episcopal conferences. Every other innovation in the liturgical field depends exclusively on the Holy See and, according to the norm of the law, on the bishops.
RECEIVED INTO ORDER On Sunday, February 2, in the presence of a large gathering of relatives and friends, five young aspirants to the religious life were clothed in habit of a Novice of the Sisters of Mercy, in the Convent c hapel, Victoria Square, Monsignor J.F. Hogan Adm. o fficiating. T he preacher for the occasion was Father J. C leary 0.5. Cam. who chose a s his text"But I, because of Your abundant kindness, w ill enter Your house; I will worship at Your temple, 0 Lord." ( Ps. 5. ) Father Cleary commenting on the appropiateness of t he Feast of the Purification for such a ceremony, reminded the postulants that it could be well said of them what Holy Simeon said of the Christ Child "These souls are set for the salvation of many in Israel." The new novices are ( L-R ) Sister M. Nicholas Benedetti, Sister M. Andrew Price, Sister M. Teresita McCourt, Sister M. Jovita Fitzgerald, Sister M. Mac. anus Muller.
Will Of Late Pope Changed V ATICAN CITY. — The permanent tomb of Pope John XXIII will be in the grottos of St. Peter's Basilica instead of in the Lateran Palace as the late Pontiff asked in his will. The decision was made by Pope Paul VI. It was reached after more than six months of study by a commission of cardinals composed of Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State: Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella. Archpriest of the Lateran basilica: and Gustavo Cardinal Testa. Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church and a lifelong friend of the late Pope.
If Permitted Pope John had asked to be buried in a chapel of the Lateran palace if plans for restoring the building
permitted. Engi nearing studies have shown that original restoration plans for the place would be extremely expensive and various modifications have been adopted. As a result. Pope John's permanent tomb will be in the same side chapel in the grottos of St. Peter's where his present tomb is now -located. Pope Paul indicated in a letter communicating his decision to Cardinal Cicognani that a fitting burial monument to commemorate Pope John and his work will be erected in the crypt.
New Zealand Bishop Dies
The Most Rev. Edward Michael Joyce. D.D.. the Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand. died on Tuesday. January 28, at the age of 59. He had been in hospital since Christmas Eve.
Born at Lyttelton, in the diocese of Christchurch, in 1904, he was ordained in 1930. He was the first priest who received all his training at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel. to be raised to the New Zealand episcopate.
He was consecrated the fourth Bishop of Christchurch on July 16, 1950. in succession to His Lordship Bishop Lyons, formerly Administrator of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, who was transferred from Christchurch to Sydney as Auxiliary Bishop in March. 1950. and is now Bishop of Sale. One of five children, the
late Bishop Joyce was a brother of the Rev. James Joyce, a well - known member of the Marist Society. His mother, a native of Killenaule. Tipperary, Ireland, was a sister of the late Bishop James Byrne of Toowoomba. Appointed to the hierarchy from a curacy, Bishop Joyce had served during the war as a chaplain in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and saw extensive service in the Far East.