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About The Famous Catholic Renewal

By Tracie Knight


The catholic church is known to be one of the biggest institutions that the entire world has seen. However, no matter how big they are and no matter how influential they are to the people, they still had to undergo some major changes in order to cater to the people. Now these major changes happened during the Catholic Renewal which transpired sometime during the late twentieth century.

Now before the whole church was revamped and transformed into the entity it is today, it went through three major changes during the twentieth century. Now the three changes that happened before the twentieth century ended was the translation of the Word, the modification of liturgy, and of course the new defining of faith in the lives of the worshippers. It was because of these three changes that the Vatican was able to adapt to its followers.

Now the very first stage was the translation of the Bible from Latin to contemporary languages. Before the transformation, the Bible always made use of Vulgate which is a fourth century translation of the Bible in the Latin language. During this time, the church revamped the whole Bible and translated it into languages that everyone could actually understand.

Now the one who initiated this command was none other than Pope Pius XII. In order to translate the entire Bible, they had to go over the texts many times and tried to directly translate it from Latin words so that the original message is still there. From there, they were able to make many translations that could be read by the people today.

The second stage were the liturgical practices of the worshippers during that time. For those who are not familiar with the term, liturgy is the name of the public service that worshippers would attend in which the church would host. During the renewal, they made their services simpler than before and called it a Mass.

Now this change began when the Second Vatican Council was established. The one who established this Vatican Council was none other than Pope John XXII and was actually ended by another famous Pope named Pope Paul VI. Of course this was the time that major changes were made in the rituals that the worshippers were taking part in so that people can worship better.

Of course the third of the changes was the concept of faith. Now in the old times, the catholic church restricted the people to only formal forms of worship wherein the people would just follow. Of course these days, the church now has made a mix of both personal faith and the formal practices.

So as one can see, these changes can be seen evidently today. Of course the Church will continue to just keep on growing and adapting to the times because the times are evolving too. Now the main thing that they would want to do would be to gather more people so that many more people will be able to share in the gospel of God.




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