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4 unusual facts about Liturgical Movement


Frank Kacmarcik

Frank Kacmarcik (1920 St. Paul, Minnesota – 2004 Collegeville, Minnesota) was an American designer, in later life a Benedictine Oblate, and a leader in the Liturgical Movement.

Liturgical Movement

At almost the same time, in Germany Abbot Ildefons Herwegen of Maria Laach convened a liturgical conference in Holy Week 1914 for lay people.

As to the first of these, in his influential book Mysterium Fidei (1921), Maurice de la Taille argued that Christ's sacrifice, beginning from his self-offering at the Last Supper, completed in the Passion and continued in the Mass, were all one act.

Pius Parsch

He was a leading figure in the Liturgical Movement, publishing the results of recent liturgical scholarship in popularly accessible books in German.


Luca Brandolini

The Bishop disapproved of Pope Benedict XVI's Summorum Pontificum, saying to La Repubblica, "I can't fight back the tears. This is the saddest moment in my life as a man, priest and bishop...It's a day of mourning, not just for me but for the many people who worked for the Second Vatican Council. A reform for which many people worked, with great sacrifice and only inspired by the desire to renew the Church, has now been cancelled".

Wilhelm Stählin

Wilhelm Stählin (September 24, 1883, Gunzenhausen, Bavaria - December 16, 1975, Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria) was a German Lutheran theologian, bishop, preacher and one of the major initiators of the Liturgical Movement in German Protestantism in the 20th Century.


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