Roman Ritual

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Roman Ritual
Title XI of the 1925 Roman Ritual which contains the rites of exorcism.
Original titleRituale Romanum
LanguageLatin
Published1614 by Pope Paul V
TextRoman Ritual at Wikisource

The Roman Ritual (

Pontificale Romanum, or Caeremoniale Episcoporum
, but for convenience does include some rituals that one of these books contains.

Since 1969, the Roman Ritual is divided into different volumes by subject, for standard use in the Latin Church, yet priests and communities that celebrate pre-Second Vatican Council rituals still use the edition of 1952.

History

When ritual manual books first were written, the

sacramentals.[1]

From one book to many

The contents of the Roman Ritual and

Extreme Unction, were contained in a variety of little handbooks that eventually the Roman Ritual replaced.[1]

Codification

The

Pontificale Romanum emerged first. The book under this name, also known as the Pontifical of Egbert, occurs already in the eighth century. From the ninth there was a multitude of pontificals. For priests' functions there was no uniform book until 1614. Some of these functions were contained in the pontificals; often the principal ones were added to missals and books of hours. Then special books were arranged, but there was no uniformity in arrangement or name. Through the Middle Ages a great number of handbooks for priests having the care of souls were written. Every local rite and almost every diocese had them; indeed many were compilations for the convenience of one specific priest or church. Such books had many titles: Manuale, Liber Agendarum, Agenda, Sacramentale, or Rituale. Specimens of such medieval predecessors of the Ritual are the Manuale Curatorum of Roeskilde in Denmark (first printed in 1513; edited by J. Freisen, Paderborn, 1898), and the Liber Agendarum of Schleswig (printed in 1416; Paderborn, 1898). The book of Roeskilde contains the rituals for benediction of salt and water, Baptism, Matrimony, benediction of a house, visitation of the sick with Viaticum and Extreme Unction, prayers for the dead, funerals, prayers for pilgrims, benediction of fire on Holy Saturday, and other benedictions. The book of Schleswig has much of the Holy Week rituals, and those for All Souls, Candlemas, and Ash Wednesday. In both many rituals differ from the Roman forms.[1]

16th century

In the sixteenth century, while the other

Apostolic See; so that they should carry out their office according to a public and fixed standard, instead of following so great a multitude of Rituals".[1]

Post-Tridentine uniformity

But, unlike the other books of the

Matrimony, visitation of the sick, special benedictions, processions, and sacramentals not found in the Roman edition and still printed in various diocesan rituals. It is then by no means the case that every priest of the Roman Rite used the Ritual. Very many dioceses or provinces still had their local handbooks under the name of Rituale, Ordo Administrandi Sacramenta, etc., though all of these conformed to the Roman texts in the principal elements. Most contained practically all the rituals of the Roman edition, along with local additions or supplements.[1]

18th–20th centuries

typical edition of the Ritual, which, as the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites of 10 June 1925 explained, had been adapted to the norms and guidelines of the Codex Juris Canonici
of 1917, and the revised rubrics of the Missal and Breviary.

The latest

typical edition of the Ritual was published in 1952.[2]

1969 to present

With the advent of the

Episcopal Conferences
. The current authoritative Latin editions are:

  • Ordo celebrandi Matrimonium (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, editio typica 1969; editio typica altera 1991, 2008)
  • Ordo Exsequiarum (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1969)
  • Ordo Unctionis infirmorum eorumque pastoralis curae (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1972)
  • Ordo Initiationis Christianae adultorum (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1972)
  • Ordo professionis religiosae (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1970, 1975)
  • Ordo Baptismi parvulorum (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, editio typica 1969; editio typica altera 1973, 1986, 2003)
  • De sacra communione et de cultu mysterii eucharistici extra Missam (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1974)
  • Ordo Paenitentiae (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1974)
  • Ordo Confirmationis (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, editio typica 1973, 2003)
  • De Benedictionibus (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, editio typica 1984, 1985, 1993, 2013)
  • De Exorcismis et supplicationibus quibusdam (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1999, 2013)

The second section of the Ritual, the Benedictionale, was also extensively revised and published in 1987 as De Benedictionibus.

The Rite of Exorcism also underwent a series of revisions and was finally

De exorcismis et supplicationibus quibusdam
 (Concerning Exorcisms and Certain Supplications).

Contents

The Rituale Romanum is divided into ten "titles" (tituli). All, except the first, are subdivided into chapters. The first being called “Ultimum, Gh.” In each title (except I and X), the first chapter gives the general rules for the sacrament or function, while the others give the exact ceremonies and prayers for various cases of administration.[1]

Other rituals

The Ambrosian Rite has its own ritual (Rituale Ambrosianum, published by Giacomo Agnelli at the Archiepiscopal Press, Milan).[1]

In the Byzantine Rite, the contents of the ritual are contained in the Euchologion.[1]

The Armenians have a ritual book (Mashdotz) similar to the Roman Ritual.[1]

Other churches not in communion with the

which?] in one collection. Nearly all the Eastern Catholic Churches, however, now have ritual books formed on the Roman model.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ritual". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ "Celebration of old rite: Holy See responds to questions presented by bishops". Vatican News. 2021-12-18. Retrieved 2021-12-18.

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