Outline on Popular Religiosity

INTRODUCTION

Nature and Structure

Those to whom the Directory on Popular Piety is addressed
Popular Religiosity and Official Liturgy
Terminology/ Different Names given by the Directory
a) Pious Exercise
b) Devotions
c) Popular Piety
d) Popular Religiosity
RELIGION, RELIGIOSITY, AND POPULAR RELIGIOSITY
Some Principles
a) The Primacy of the Liturgy
b) Evaluation and Renewal
c)Distinction from and harmony with the Liturgy
d)The Language of Popular Piety
Gestures
Texts and Formulae
Song and Music
Sacred Images
Sacred Places
Sacred Times
Responsibility and Competencies

History, Magisterium, Theology

Chapter I. LITURGY AND POPULAR PIETY IN A HISTORICAL

PERSPECTIVE)

Liturgy and Popular Piety throughout the Centuries

Christian Antiquity
The Middle Ages
The Modern Period
The Contemporary Period
Liturgy and Popular Piety: The Current Problematic
Historical data: the causes of imbalances
The Constitution on the Liturgy
Importance of formation
Chapter II. LITURGY AND POPULAR PIETY IN THE CHURCH'S
MAGISTERIUM 

The Values in Popular Piety

Deviations in Popular Piety
The Subject of Popular Piety
Pious Exercises
Liturgy and Pious Exercises
General principles for the renewal of Pious Exercises

Chapter III. THEOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES FOR AN EVALUATION AND

RENEWAL OF POPULAR PIETY 

The Life of Worship: Communion with the Father, through Christ, in the Holy
Spirit
The Church: Worshipping Community
Common Priesthood and Popular Piety
Word of God and Popular Piety
Popular Piety and Private revelations
Inculturation and Popular Piety

Chapter IV. Different forms of Deovtions and Popular Piety in the Philippines

 Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

 Our Lady of Perpetual Help
 Scapular of our Lady of Mt. Carmel
 Via Crucis
 Procession of the Pasos
 Praying of the Holy Rosary
 Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
 Advent Wreath Candles
 Simbang Gabi Devotion
 Santo Nino
 Black Nazarene
 Flores de Mayo
 Visita Iglesia
 Salubong
 Adoration of the Cross (Pabisa sa Good Friday)
 Divine Mercy Devotion
 Holy Face
 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
 Novena to St. Jude
 Holy Hour
 Holy Wounds
 Our Lady of Candle

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Anscar J. Chupungco, Liturgical Inculturation: Sacramentals, Religiosity, and

Catechesis (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1992),

Domenico Sartore, “Le manifestazioni della religiosità popolare,” in I sacramentali e le

benedizioni, Anamnesis 7 (Genova: Marietti, 1989), .

Robert Schreiter, Constructing Local Theologies (New York: Orbis Books, 1985), 124.

Bernhard Raas SVD, Popular Devotions: Making Popular Religious Practices More
Potent Vehicles of Spiritual Growth (Manila: Logos Publications, 2006, 4th printing),

Ma. Cecilia T. Medina, “Dialogue between Faith and Culture and Popular Devotions,” in
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Christianity, edited by Leonardo Mercado SVB (Manila: Logos Publications, 2000), 11-
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Salvatore Marsili, “Liturgia e non-liturgia,” in La Liturgia, momento nella storia della

salvezza, Anamnesis 1, ed. Burckhardt Neunheuser (Turin, 1974), 151; Chupungco,
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Pontifical Council for Culture, Towards a Pastoral Approach to Culture(Vatican City:

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Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Directory on
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