Act justly: The Word of God in the world

RAYMOND FRIEL
30 September 2025, The Tablet

An introduction to a new three-year cycle of Breaking the Word Sunday homily notes for preachers and teachers by Raymond Friel OBE and Dr Maria Power

On 14 November 1962, the Second Vatican Council sparked into life. After the relatively smooth passage of the first draft of the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy earlier that day – paving the way for the vernacular in the liturgy and a fuller more varied approach to the reading of Scripture – the first draft of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation was presented to the council assembly by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani.

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