1928-dec-20 Divini Cultus Sanctitatem

1928-12-20
Divini Cultus Sanctitatem
On Divine Worship

Pope Pius XI

Bull
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/bulls/documents/hf_p-xi_bulls_19281220_divini-cultus_it.html

online translation ? partial or full ?
http://www.adoremus.org/DiviniCultus.html
http://www.sjnmusic.com/chant/divini_cultus.html

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Voices, rather than instruments, ought to be heard in the church: the voices of the clergy, the choir and the congregation.
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In order that the faithful may more actively participate in divine worship, let them be made once more to sing the Gregorian Chant, so far as it belongs to them to take part in it. It is most important that when the faithful assist at the sacred ceremonies, or when pious sodalities take part with the clergy in a procession, they should not be merely detached and silent spectators, but, filled with a deep sense of the beauty of the Liturgy, they should sing alternately with the clergy or the choir, as it is prescribed. If this is done, then it will no longer happen that the people either make no answer at all to the public prayers -- whether in the language of the Liturgy or in the vernacular -- or at best utter the responses in a low and subdued manner.
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Let the clergy, both secular and regular, under the lead of their bishops and ordinaries devote their energies either directly, or through other trained teachers, to instructing the people in the Liturgy and in music, as being matters closely associated with Christian doctrine.
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We are well aware that the fulfillment of these injunctions will entail great trouble and labor.
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