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APPENDIXI

ORIGINAL PROPOSED STRUCTURE OF THE CONSILIUM

March-April 1964

Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, President 20-30 bishopsConsiglieri Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, Vice President(June 1964) (voting members)

Annibale Bugnini, Secretary

Consilium Presidentiae1

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Relator

Secretary

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5-7 Members Group1 Group2 Group3, etc.

(a.k.a Consultors)

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Section 1 of group 1 Section 2 of group 1, etc.(Coetus peculiaris)

1 September 1966. Seven bishops are members: Msgr. Ren Boudon (France), Msgr. Msgr. Pellegrino (Italy), Msgr.

Ott Splbeck (Germany), Msgr. Vicente Enrique y Taracn (Spain), Msgr. William Conway (Ireland), Msgr. Jos

Clemente Carlos Isnard (Brasil), Msgr. Jean Bluyssen (Netherlands). It meets eight times, generally coinciding with

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APPENDIX III

HISTORICAL PROCESS FOR A COETUSAND APPROVING A REFORMED

LITURGICAL RITE

PT. 1 GENERIC METHOD

A.

METHOD: OVERVIEW OF HOW A COETUSWAS ESTABLISHED

March 1964 Divisions of liturgical book sections I-XII determine which group will

receive a certain rite to reform. Liturgical book section III includes Groups (Coetus) 10-16(elaborato, 21). After Cardinal Lercaro and A. Bugnini convene their first adunanzaplenaria

(March 1964), they assign Relators, Secretaries, and Consultors to various Groups (eventually 1-29). In this study case, Group (Coetus) X receives the Ordinary of the Mass to update. After

the Coetus is erected and officially commissioned, it is expected to organize its own internalrules of order, methodology, locations of reunions, and modus operandi.

In the case of any Coetusthe individual Consultors are each approved by Pope Paul VI inprivate audiences with Cardinal Lercaro (and also A. Bugnini). Each member, i.e., Relator,

Secretary, Member of a Coetus is technically a Consultor by Papal appointment (elaborato,17). Relators and Secretaries of Coetusare merely appointed by Cardinal Lercaro and A. Bugnini

(A. Bugnini effectively proposed the vast majority of names and Cardinal Lercaro is not knownto have rejected any suggestions).

Coetus X, erected officially in the plenary audience in October of 1964 (elaborato, 26),had J. Wagner as its life long Relator, A. Hnggi as its initial secretary, and seven additional

Consultors.2 After the first plenary audience in March, The group of Consultors of Coetus X

received the job of reforming the individual parts of the Order of Mass. However, the same

CoetusX was only officially commissioned to produce schemata of a reformed Mass followingthe 5-6 October Plenary Audience of the Consilium. At this audience, in addition to the general

reforming principles of reforming the liturgy as proposed by the Consilium (BUGNINI,La riformaliturgica, 53-62), and the internal principles worked out by the Coetus X itself, the Consilium

established nine other guiding principles of the reform of the Order of the Mass (elaborato, 26).After all theoretical and operative principles were recognized and established, the job of

producing a schema was bequeathed to Coetus X. They were prepared to produce there firstchronological, rite by rite, schema by October of 1965 (elaborato, 26, ft. note 101).

2Coetus Xinitially (1964) consisted of the following members: J. Wagner (relator), A. Hnggi

(Secretarius), M. Righetti (Consultor), T. Shnitzler (Consultor), P. Jounel (Consultor), C. Vagaggini O.S.B.

(Consultor), A. Franquesa O.S.B. (Consultor), P.M. Gy O.P. (Consultor), J.A. Jungmann S.J. (Consultor). Later in

1967 the Consilium contained the following: J. Wagner (Relator), A. Franquesa O.S.B. (Pro-Secretarius), M.

Righetti (Consultor), T. Schnitzler (Consultor), A. Hnggi (Consultor), P. Jounel (Consultor), P.M. Gy O.P.

(Consultor), J. A. Jungmann S.J. (Consultor ), L. Agustoni (Consultor), J. Gelineau S. J. (Consultor), C. Vagaggini

O.S.B. (Consultor), L. Bouyer C.O. (Consultor), S. Famoso, K. Amon, J. Cellier, F. McManus, V. No (Consultor),

H. Wegman (Consultor), J. Patino (Consultor). See: BARBA, La riforma conciliare dell=AOrdo Missae@,73-77.


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B. METHOD: CHRONOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD OF

REFORM

During this period of time between March-October 1964 Coetus X operated as follows

(For references to times a places of Coetus X plenaria and schemata, cf. BARBA,La riforma

conciliare dellOrdo Missae., 65, 78):

1.) J. Wagner is alerted to the fact that he and several others will be the members of Coetus

X (elaborato, 22). He proposed several plans of reform in the first audience (11 March1964).

2.) J. Wagner in consultation with other newly appointed relators (Consulta) isolates theessential sources and models to be used by CoetusX for liturgical reform (elaborato, 23-

24).3.) He personally presents this plan to the second Plenary Audience 17 April 1964. It is

approved4.) In consultation with his Members, they agree to have their internal Plenary Meeting 8-10

June in Treveri to present the results of their assigned tasked as apportioned by J.Wagner.

5.) This happens again in Einsiedeln 5-7 June 1964. This work results in Quaestionestractandaeat the 3 Plenary Audience 18-20 June.

6.) Following August and September Coetus X plenary in Freiburg and Rome, they are ableto present aRelatioto the Secretary of the Consilium. He presents it at the Consilium 4

Plenary on 5-6 October. The corrections and suggestions result in Schematann. 3-5.7.) From the October 1964 Plenary Audience until the 26-30 April 1965 5 Plenary audience

Coetus X produces schemata 9-11. N.B. There is no Plenary Audience of Coetus Xduring this time. All revisions are done by individual consulting between the Secretary

of the Consilium and the Relator-Secretary.

8.)

From the 5 Plenary Audience until the October 1965 6 Plenary Audience The CoetusXschematann. 12-14. The CoetusX Plenary Audiences was 18-23 June in Paris and 15-20September 1965 in Rome.

9.) The first full schema of a reformed Mass is presented as a homogenous unit. Questionsare voted on regarding the rite by the Fathers of the Consilium in the 9 October 1965

Plenary Audience.10.) There vote results in further revisions of the new Normative Mass. From the

October 1965 Plenary Audience until the Consiliums 7 Plenary Meeting (6-14 October1966) Coetus X produces Schemata 15-23. There are no Plenary Audiences of the

Coetus during this period in question. Much of the work has been accustomed to beaccomplished in intensive sessions of Relators and specialists with A. Bugnini (BUGNINI,

La riforma liturgica, 163-165).11.)

From the October 1966 7 Plenary Audience until the 10-19 April 1967 8 Plenary

Audience Coetus X produces schemata 24-34. There are two last Plenary Audiences ofCoetusX in Switzerland and Rome on 24-30 January and 8-12 March 1967 respectively.

12.) The culmination of CoetusXs work is presented in the10-19 April 1967 PlenaryAudience of the Consilium. This is the point at which the Normative Mass overall

structure is solidified.


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PT. 2 SPECIFIC METHOD OF REFORM ANY GIVEN RITE

Continuing to use CoetusX as an example, one can propose a hypothetical mode for the

reform of any given rite.

Having received ones section and CoetusX, one might propose a schemain one of two

ways. For instance, if one wished to change the words of institution from pro multis to proomnibusin theMissa Normativa, then one could a.) propose a series of quaesitato the Fathers of

the Consilium to be discussed and voted on in on of the Plenary Audiences b.) or retouch thecurrent schema of the Missa Normativa. Either of these proposals goes through the same

process. Finally, at the desire of the Relator, studies and notes can be attached to the schemaorquaesitain order aid the Fathers discussion and clarify the theme.

1.) Hypothetically, if Coetus X proposed the pro omnibus change, then one of theMembers of the Group will bring up the subject when presenting his work at the

Plenary Session of the Group X. However, all suggestions and operations of theGroup have their ultimate arbiter in the Relator (i.e., J. Wagner).

2.)

Normally, The relator, having approved theschemaprepared by his secretary will usehis secretary to relay the information and notes to the Secretary of the Consilium.

3.) Having received this proposal, the Secretary may make corrections and then hepresents the schema to the President of the Consilium. The President may choose

personally (or use his Secretary) to either work with Consultors (Consulta) orCounselors (Consiliarii), or his Consilium Presidentiae to review and correct the

schema to prepare it for a vote before the Plenary Session.4.) If the proposal to change the words, in this case, is acceptable then the President gives

a positive judgment to put the schema on the docket for the Plenary Session. If not,the debited corrections are made by the Secretary of the Consilium and the 1 general

relation (relazione generale) is given back to Coetus X.

5.)

The 1strelation is corrected along the lines of those written down by the Secretary ofthe Consilium in the name of the President. After the Group has made the duecorrections it is re-submitted to the Secretary of the Consilium in a 2 relation.

6.) If the Secretary is satisfied with the corrections and 2nd

draft, he may seek thepermission of the President to present the Fathers of the Consilium the corrected

relation. This is done at a Plenary session.7.) The vote of the Fathers is either positive or negative. If a majority of the Fathers vote

aplacetthen the change will be added. If the Fathers vote the question as non placetor placet iuxta modum, then the suggested change ordinarily will not pass. If the

President judges that the iuxta modumvotes are substantial, then he may return theschema to the Group to rework the schema according to the Fathers suggestions.

8.)

If the schema presented is approved with any corrections, then the schema is sentback to the Group from where it came (e.g., Group X). Then, the Group incorporates

the suggestions or corrections. After this is done, the Group returns the schemagenerale to the Secretary of the Consilium.

9.) The Fathers of the Consilium are then able to review the corrections and give theconsent to the schema.

10.) This final schema is presented to the Pope (By Lercaro/Bugnini) during a privateaudience for his approval. Following this approval the SRC publishes it with a decree.

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