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Gaudet Mater Ecclesia (Latin for "Mother Church Rejoices") is the title of Pope John XXIII's opening speech of the Second Vatican Council.Pope John "solemnly inaugurated" the council with this speech on October 11, 1962.
[8] [9] The task of the Second Vatican Council in continuing and completing the work of the first was noted by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical letter Ecclesiam Suam (1964). [10]: Paragraph 30 At the same time, the world's bishops were challenged by political, social, economic, and technological change.
On 1 August 1962, in a speech to a pilgrimage of "ministers of the altar", [4] he said: (translation) "The Ecumenical Council [...] seeks to be a Council of updating, mainly for a deeper knowledge and love of revealed truth, for fervent religious piety, and for holiness of life." It was a term he used when he was patriarch (archbishop) of ...
[4] In addition to the pope's speech, Cardinal John Krol, one of three delegate-presidents, also gave an opening speech, described by one Catholic magazine as "magnificent." Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone, the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, gave a reflective address discussed the Second Vatican Council. [2]
Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (2015), sculpture by Joshua Koffman at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, commemorating Nostra aetate.. Nostra aetate (from Latin: "In our time"), or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Vatican II, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
Dignitatis humanae [a] (Of the Dignity of the Human Person) is the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom. [1] In the context of the council's stated intention "to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society", Dignitatis humanae spells out the church's support for the protection of religious liberty.
During the speech, John Paul II cited the Guidelines for the Implementation of the [Second Vatican] Council Declaration Nostra Aetate, claiming that Catholics "will endeavor to understand better all that in the Old Testament preserves a proper and perpetual value ..., since this value has not been obliterated by the further interpretation of ...
The ecumenical constitution created by the Second Vatican Council focused on the role of the church within the modern world. [1] It was the last document promulgated during the Second Vatican Council and the first church document to place the church within the significance of the world. [1]