"By way of promoting active participation, the people should be encouraged to take part by means of acclamations, responses, psalmody, antiphons, and songs, as well as by actions, gestures, and bodily attitudes. And at the proper times all should observe a reverent silence” (Sacrosanctum concilium, 34). Before the Second Vatican Council issued its mandate for liturgical refor (...)
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Quiet, Please
The Importance of Silence in the Liturgy
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