BETWEEN TRADITION AND THE HOLY SCRIPTURES: THE LITURGY AS THE NORM OF CHURCH LIFE

Abstract

If the relationship between the liturgy, Tradition and Sacred Scripture is truly structuring, as Sacrosanctum Concilium advocates, does is not give the liturgy in the celebratory act a structuring and normative density to ecclesial life? This hypothesis is based on two ideas: firstly, that Tradition and Scripture are like sources, or rather, a single source that irrigates the liturgy and gives it a kind of authority with the force of "law"; secondly, that the Second Vatican Council sought, in addition to drawing up new rules of worship, to propose a "new" paradigm for conceiving the relationship between Tradition, Scripture and liturgy- This study will, therefore, seek to understand Tradition and Scripture as theological principles that intertwine Sacrosanctum Concilium and the other conciliar constitutions, sometimes in consonance and sometimes in dissonance, and how this makes it possible to think theologically about the central and instituting character of the liturgy in the life of the Church since Vatican II.

KEYWORDS: Vatican 11 Council Constitutions. Tradition. Sacred Scripture. Norm. Church.