pre-Vatican
Prior to reform
Pre-Vatican describes the Roman Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), which modernized liturgy, permitted Mass in local languages instead of Latin, and shifted the Church's relationship with the modern world.
The term often carries nostalgic or traditionalist connotations: pre-Vatican liturgy, the pre-Vatican Church.
Sometimes specified as pre-Vatican II.
Pre-Vatican II Catholic liturgy
- high altarPrincipal church altar
- communion railChurch kneeling barrier
- manipleLiturgical forearm garment
- birettaRidged ecclesiastical cap
cassock · surplice · Gregorian chant · incense · tabernacle · baldachin · requiem · monstrance
Named publication or service
- imprimaturOfficial sanction to publish
- anti-modernismOpposition to contemporary developments
- encyclicalFormal papal circular letter
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
curia · canonical · episcopal · prelate · monsignor · seminarian · catechism · dogma
Religious meatless day practice
- parochial schoolChurch-sponsored educational institution
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- motherhouseOrder's principal convent
- sodalityOrganized religious fellowship
novena · devotional · scapular · rosary · Marian · procession · feast day · patron saint
Adherent to established customs
- continuityUninterrupted progression or coherence
- ruptureViolent tearing apart
Latin Mass
Pre-Vatican II Catholic liturgy
- high altarPrincipal church altar
- communion railChurch kneeling barrier
- manipleLiturgical forearm garment
biretta · cassock · surplice · Gregorian chant · incense · tabernacle · baldachin · requiem · monstrance · genuflection
Index
Named publication or service
- imprimaturOfficial sanction to publish
- anti-modernismOpposition to contemporary developments
- encyclicalFormal papal circular letter
hierarchy · curia · canonical · episcopal · prelate · monsignor · seminarian · catechism · dogma · infallibility
fish Friday
Religious meatless day practice
- parochial schoolChurch-sponsored educational institution
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- motherhouseOrder's principal convent
sodality · novena · devotional · scapular · rosary · Marian · procession · feast day · patron saint · confirmation
traditionalist
Adherent to established customs
- continuityUninterrupted progression or coherence
- ruptureViolent tearing apart