SZYMON DRZYŻDŻYK to simply as the Consilium.. Its main task was of directing and coordinat-ing the work of study groups Latin name of the group: Coetus a Studiis and working on carrying
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to simply as the Consilium Its main task was of directing and coordinat-ing the work of study groups (Latin name of the group: Coetus a Studiis) and working on carrying out the liturgical reforms In addition, Consilium
was to ensure the letter and spirit of the council In cases that were caus-ing difficulties they were to refer directly to the Holy Father.80 Cardinal G Lercaro was appointed as chairman and Archbishop A Bugnini as sec-retary.81
For the motivation for the creation of Consilum it is not necessary to
search long because the idea of the existence of a competent authority,
which could fulfill all the provisions of the liturgical reform, was accompa-nied by the formation of Sacrosanctum Concilium Pope Paul VI already in
October 1963 had considered such a possibility Specific actions, howev-er, took place 4 weeks after the adoption of the Constitution On January
3 Cardinal A Cicognani „summoned Father Bugnini, to his office tell him that Pope Paul VI had created a commission to implement and interpret
Sacrosanctum Concilium and named him secretary The appointment of
Bugnini to this crucial post was another example of the remarkable reha-bilitations that took place during the Council.“82
Consilium ad exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia were,
next to the President and the Secretary, other members in the number of
47 (11 cardinals, 35 bishops, one abbot) and over 200 Consultors divided
into approximately 39 working groups – i e those Coetus a Studiis Each
of these groups in turn, chose further advisors and collaborators The reform of the rite of the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick was at the
discretion of Coetus a Studiis no 23.83 Attention must be drawn to the
importance of the work that had to be performed by members of Coetus
23, the approximate process is editorial work (called iter redactionalis).
80 For a better understanding of the work of the Consilium, as well as the problems that passes through it is worth reviewing the article (the only such study on this subject in
Poland!) J STEFAŃSKI, Rola Consilium w posoborowej reformie liturgicznej, „Studia
Theologica Varsaviensia 23 (1985), z 2, s 291 – 310.
81 Annibale Bugnini († 1982), Titular Archbishop of Diocletian; before the start of the Council he he became Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Liturgy; at the time of the Second Vatican Council was appointed Secretary of the Committee on the Liturgy, but after the intervention of Cardinal Larraona had to leave the occupied space, because according to him, he was considered “too progressive”; Lecturer at the two papal universities: Lateranum and Urbanian; proficient and respected liturgist; Pius XII advisor in matters of liturgy and liturgical reforms introduced by the Pope.
82 J W O’Malley, What Happened at Vatican II Harvard University Press, Cambridge
2008 Print 139
83 Often the name of the workgroup to the Coetus was shortened to a number In this paper we adopted the same method for determining the working groups.