The first document of the Second Vatican Council was the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, with 50 years having elapsed since its promulgation (on the 4th December 1963). The study reflects on issues of developments in the field of liturgy over this time period and reacts to certain contemporary trends. After a survey of the history of the liturgical movement, the course of the reform of the Mass liturgy after the Council of Trent and that after the Second Vatican Council are compared in a historical excursus. The polarity between the divine and human side of liturgy is consequently dealt with and the connected tension between continuity and discontinuity in realization of intentions of reform is reflected on.
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