Episcopal Ordination and Ecclesial ConsensusLiturgical scholars refer to Episcopal ordination as a two-stage process: election and consecration. Using early and medieval texts of the Roman Rite, Sharon L. McMillan, S.N.D. de N., demonstrates how this two-stage sacrament involved a consensus of the local See, neighboring Sees, metropolitan See, and eventually the apostolic See as critically important elements of the election. The same history also shows how one by one each of those voices fell silent, except for the papal, and how ordination has now become an act with only one stage: the consecration. If both election and consecration were originally vital elements of the sacrament, why aren't they now? How was the election stage lost in the liturgical tradition of the West? How might it be retrieved? Why would it be important for the life of the church to retrieve it? Episcopal Ordination and Ecclesial Consensus answers these questions and provides the liturgical basis for increasing interest in the election of bishops. |
Contents
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Ordo Romanus XXXV | 30 |
Ordo Romanus XXXVI | 38 |
The Gallican Model of Episcopal Ordination | 51 |
The Episcopal Ordination of Hincmar of Rheims | 61 |
CHAPTER 3 | 71 |
The Presentation of the BishopElect in Ordo Romanus XXXV | 99 |
The Presentation of the BishopElect in | 171 |
CHAPTER 5 | 192 |
The Presentation of the BishopElect in the Editio Princeps 1485 | 203 |
CHAPTER 6 | 234 |
The Presentation of the BishopElect in | 240 |
Ordination of a Bishop 1968 | 247 |
Ordination of a Bishop 1990 | 266 |
Conclusion | 277 |
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Page 6 - And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew of these two the one whom thou hast chosen, to take the place in this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
Page 6 - Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou hast chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.