Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 58
(cf. Pray Tell: Worship, Wit & Wisdom Blog, Sept 27, 2013. https://praytellblog.com/index.php/2013/09/27/re-reading-sacrosanctum-concilium-article-58/)
Vatican website translation:
58. A new rite for concelebration is to be drawn up and inserted into the Pontifical and into the Roman Missal.
Latin text:
58. Novus ritus concelebrationis conficiatur, Pontificali et Missali romano inserendus.
Slavishly literal translation (kindness of Jonathan Day):
58. A new rite of concelebration is to be drawn up for inserting into the Pontifical and into the Roman Missal.
In the light of the expansion of situations foreseen in art. 57 by which priests might concelebrate the Mass, art. 58 decrees that a new ritual for sacerdotal concelebration appear in the reformed editions of the liturgical books guiding celebrations with episcopal presidency and presbyters celebrating Mass. In the “General Instruction of the Roman Missal” associated with the Roman Missal 2011 (based on the Missale Romanum 2002/2008), the rationale, occasions and ritual for concelebrated Mass is treated in articles 199-251.
Pray Tell readers may wish to comment on any aspects of the rite of concelebration described in these articles, e.g., the approach to and procession away from the altar, the possible reading of the Gospel by a priest concelebrant, the division of the texts of the Eucharistic Prayer among various concelebrants, the communal gestures and recitation/chanting done by concelebrants during the Eucharistic Prayer, etc.
Michael Joncas
Ordained in 1980 as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN, Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas holds degrees in English from the (then) College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, and in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Ateneo S. Anselmo in Rome. He has served as a parochial vicar, a campus minister, and a parochial administrator (pastor). He is the author of six books and more than two hundred fifty articles and reviews in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans, and Questions Liturgiques. He has composed and arranged more than 300 pieces of liturgical music. He has recently retired as a faculty member in the Theology and Catholic Studies departments and as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.