Kalendarium prac nad pierwszym i drugim wydaniem typicznym Pontyfikału Rzymskiego „De ordinatione” z 1968 i 1990 roku

Abstract

The rites of a bishop’s, priest’s and deacon’s ordinations binding until 1968 contained many ritual and textual elements, which to a considerable extent had retained the customs and concepts of how the sacrament was understood in the early Middle Ages. These rites failed to fully present the evangelical ministry towards the People of God; rather, they stressed the sacramental power over the People of God. Moreover, the accumulated symbolism of the previous rites of ordination, hardly understandable for the contemporary people, with numerous repetitions and allusions to the priesthood of the Old Testament, did not allow for an easy orientation as to what belongs to the essence of ordination, and what is merely an explanation or a matter of minor importance. In view of the pastoral significance of the rites of ordination for the life of the Church, they are first to have been revised by the Council for the Implementation of the Resolutions of the Constitution on the Liturgy (Consilium). This part of the Pontifical was published under the title De ordinatone diaconi, presbiteri et episcopi in 1968. This first, post-conciliar and reformed liturgical book was not free from some drawbacks. Therefore it called for further improvement of the previous book in the form of Editio typica altera published in 1990 under the title De ordinatone episcopi, presbyteroruin et diaconorum. The present study sought to trace the history, documentation, and editorial work of the post-conciliar and evolutionary stages by which the rites of ordination of deacons, priests, and bishops took shape.