(en) The Second Vatican Council profoundly renewed the meaning of the homily and its insertion in the liturgy. In concrete terms, the bishops restored the homily 'from the sacred text' and 'as part of the liturgy itself' (in the words of the constitution on the liturgy). How have the people primarily concerned, parish priests and other priests, received this change and modified their practices? In order to contribute to the beginning of an answer, the article presents an analysis of the preaching of three Belgian priests. Around these three figures, a typology of the emergence of the Word of God in preaching between 1945 and 1975 is sketched out. Finally, new issues are raised.
Join-Lambert, A. (2022). La renaissance des homélies autour du concile Vatican II. Étude de prédications de quelques prêtres belges. Questions Liturgiques, 102(1-2), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.2143/QL.102.1.3290878 (Original work published 2022)