Common Prayer Sixty Years After Vatican II

Steps Forward, Sticking Points and New Frontiers

by Bryan Cones

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Extent: 86 pages

Publisher: ATF Press

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Southern African Dominican Series

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2024)

ISBN: 9781923206526

Price: $20.95

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Hardback (Published)

(July 2024)

ISBN: 9781923206533

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(August 2024)

ISBN: 9781923206557

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Sixty years ago the Second Vatican Council inaugurated what would be a sea change in the way Christians prayer, not only in the Catholic communion, but across Western Christianity. The intervening decades have seen some steps forward, some sticking points, and new challenges to common prayer. This volume addresses the place of women in liturgical ministry, the intersection of Christian liturgy and the climate crisis, and reflects on several years of “online only” services and the post-conciliar recovery of the assembly as the primary actor in the liturgy.


Sixty years ago the Second Vatican Council inaugurated what would be a sea change in the way Christians prayer, not only in the Catholic communion, but across Western Christianity. The intervening decades have seen some steps forward, some sticking points, and new challenges to common prayer. In this issue of the Australian Journal of Liturgy, Jenny O’Brien addresses one of those sticking points, the place of women in liturgical ministry. Joseph Grayland addresses the intersection of Christian liturgy and the climate crisis in conversation with Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. On the practical side, Nathan Nettleton reflects on several years of “online only” services in his own congregation, while Bryan Cones addresses presiding informed by the post-conciliar recovery of the assembly as the primary actor in the liturgy.

  • By (author) Bryan Cones