The catholic church is known to be one of the biggest institutions that the entire world has seen. However, no matter how big they are and no matter how influential they are to the people, they still had to undergo some major changes in order to cater to the people. Now these major changes happened during the Catholic Renewal which transpired sometime during the late twentieth century.
This drastic change that happened had three stages before an overall change was made to it. These three stages were namely, the translation of the Bible, the practices in the church, and of course the definition of faith in the lives of a worshipper. With these three changes, the catholic church was able to fling itself into the modern times and adapted to the change.
Now to start off, the very first change was none other than the overall translation of the Bible so that other versions in other languages could be made. Now from the fourth century onwards, the Bible was in a Latin language that the leaders would read and use. Of course since not everyone could understand Latin, some changes had to be made in order to address this.
This stage started when Pope Pius XII ordered the church to do so. The church used the original texts of the Bible in order to make a translated version of it without the text losing its essence. It was for this reason that a lot of work was done on their old versions so that the new version could be fully understood and would also has the same meaning as the old versions.
Of course the next change that they made was about the liturgy because they wanted to enter the world of modernism. Now if one does not know what a liturgy is, it is the public service that worshippers would attend in order to worship God and know more about the Bible. Now the main thing that they did was that they made it a little bit less formal and changed the name to Mass.
Now as stated above, this was implemented by the Second Vatican Council. Now for those who do not know, the one who created the Second Council was Pope John XXIII and the one who ended it was Pope Paul VI. Now this was done so that the modernized followers would also be able to relate to the worship services.
The last stage was the concept of faith that the worshippers already had. Now during the olden times, people were very strict when it came to faith as they would just be instructed by the church to do this and to do that. After the renewal, the church more or less made the concept of faith a little bit more personal.
Now as one can see, the Vatican really made a lot of changes in their practices so that it would really fit into the modern times. Of course the church is still trying to make itself better for the worshippers and also the people who would want to follow the Word of God. It is for this reason that the renewal had to be done so that the Church could also adapt along with times.
This drastic change that happened had three stages before an overall change was made to it. These three stages were namely, the translation of the Bible, the practices in the church, and of course the definition of faith in the lives of a worshipper. With these three changes, the catholic church was able to fling itself into the modern times and adapted to the change.
Now to start off, the very first change was none other than the overall translation of the Bible so that other versions in other languages could be made. Now from the fourth century onwards, the Bible was in a Latin language that the leaders would read and use. Of course since not everyone could understand Latin, some changes had to be made in order to address this.
This stage started when Pope Pius XII ordered the church to do so. The church used the original texts of the Bible in order to make a translated version of it without the text losing its essence. It was for this reason that a lot of work was done on their old versions so that the new version could be fully understood and would also has the same meaning as the old versions.
Of course the next change that they made was about the liturgy because they wanted to enter the world of modernism. Now if one does not know what a liturgy is, it is the public service that worshippers would attend in order to worship God and know more about the Bible. Now the main thing that they did was that they made it a little bit less formal and changed the name to Mass.
Now as stated above, this was implemented by the Second Vatican Council. Now for those who do not know, the one who created the Second Council was Pope John XXIII and the one who ended it was Pope Paul VI. Now this was done so that the modernized followers would also be able to relate to the worship services.
The last stage was the concept of faith that the worshippers already had. Now during the olden times, people were very strict when it came to faith as they would just be instructed by the church to do this and to do that. After the renewal, the church more or less made the concept of faith a little bit more personal.
Now as one can see, the Vatican really made a lot of changes in their practices so that it would really fit into the modern times. Of course the church is still trying to make itself better for the worshippers and also the people who would want to follow the Word of God. It is for this reason that the renewal had to be done so that the Church could also adapt along with times.
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