Funeral
Part 2 History
Chapter 27 After Trent [1700-1899 CE]
Secular History |
Church History |
Ministry to the Dead and Bereaved |
Secular History
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Church History
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Ministry to the Dead and Bereaved
ANGEL Postings
Focus on piety and purgatory. Little change in form and content. Didactic, pragmatic, and non-liturgical piety. Edification theology. Consolation and encouragement appended at conclusion of rite. Performed for the deceased.
The Roman Ritual of 1614 continued to exert its liturgical influence despite efforts from popes to encourage local diocesan traditions. The consolidation to the ritual had a tendency to divorce the human experience of grief and loss from the liturgical expression. Thus, devotions and indulgences for the dead in purgatory became more popular as a result.
Roman Ritual replaces diocesan rituals. Funeral liturgy divorced from pastoral care to dying and bereaved. Visible piety surrounding liturgy - tolling of the bells, novenas.
basic form and content changed little; clerical liturgy laid their dead to rest while faithful stood by and watched; Constance - vernacular hymns, prayers and exhortation; edification theology (strengthen, console)
Liturgical life at this time would be characterized by having one foot in the late Middle Ages and the other in the emerging "modern" era. Liturgical form and content changed very little. Piety was characterized as didactic, pragmatic and aliturgical.
More diverse use of vernacular and local custom. Growing importance of scripture. Shift to peripheral issues such as structure and rules. Piety after Trent as didactic, pragmatic, and aliturgical (p.105).
Ritual of 1614 continues. Ritual acts are primary over pastoral needs of bereaved. Elaborate gravesite rites, cemeteries and monuments; Masses for the dead, purgatory as focus.
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