Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture, and Worship

Issued by NCCB/USCC (Now USCCB), November 16, 2000.
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Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Second Edition, copyright © 2000, Libreria Editrice Vaticana–United States Catholic Conference, Inc., Washington, D.C. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the Code of Canon Law, Latin-English Edition, copyright © 1998, Canon Law Society of America, Washington, D.C. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from documents of the Second Vatican Council are taken from The Documents of Vatican II, Walter M. Abbott, SJ, general editor, copyright © 1966, The American Press, New York, New York. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharist outside Mass © 1974, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of the Rite of Penance © 1974, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of Dedication of a Church and an Altar © 1978, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of the Address to participants in a national congress of diocesan liturgical commissions of Italy, Address to the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Art, Doctrina et Exemplo, Eucharisticum Mysterium, Laudis Canticum, Mysterium Fidei, and Opera Artis from Documents on the Liturgy, 1963-1979: Conciliar, Papal, and Curial Texts; excerpts from the General Introduction of the Order of Christian Funerals © 1985, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults © 1985, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of the Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest © 1988, ICEL; excerpts from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal from The Sacramentary (Revised Edition) © 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved.

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