Folia Canonica 2. (1999)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. - Vladimir Filo: Homily as a Specific Duty of Ordained Persons

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circumstances, “only when expressly permitted by law and when its prescriptions for doing so are observed.”30

This was the way to elucidate the liturgical principle, according to which “in liturgical celebrations each person, minister or layman, who has an office to perform, should carry out all and only those parts which pertain to his office by the nature of the rite and the norms of the liturgy”.31 This is also to be applied to the homily.

30Instruction (cf. nt. 3.), § 4, 19.

31 SC 28.