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Transition from Vatican I to Vatican Ii
Transition from Vatican I to Vatican II

Table of Contents Introduction 3 Vatican I 3 Transition to Vatican II 5 Vatican II 6 Preparation 6 First Period: 1962 7 Second Period: 1963 8 Third Period: 1964 9 Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) 10 The Church (Lumen Gentium) 11 Fourth Period: 1965 13 Conclusion 14 Works Cited 15

Introduction The First Vatican Council was the first Catholic council in over 300 years since the Council of Trent in the 1500’s. This was the first step towards a better connection with the people of God through many different schemata and after that ended the Second Vatican Council came in and took the ideas which the First Vatican Council had written down and made them stronger and wrote new schemata to make the Church even better and have a lives. There were some problems on the road forward to the end of the Second Vatican Council session. In this paper I will be writing about the transition from Vatican I to Vatican II and what happened during the four sessions at Vatican II, along with one of the most profound document written at the session the Lumen Gentium.
Vatican I
Pope Pius XI called the First Vatican Council (Vatican I) together in 1869 after a four year preparation. One of the main purposes of the First Vatican Council was to define the Catholic doctrine concerning the Church of Christ and its first matter was to create a dogmatic draft of Catholic doctrine against the manifold errors due to Rationalism. It was an extraordinarily effective revival, in pastoral, missionary and institutional terms, equally effective in such varied situations as northern France, Ireland, the United States and Africa. The old religious orders were strengthened and hundreds of new ones, especially orders of teaching and nursing sisters were founded. In intellectual terms the predominant note of the revival was undoubtedly counter-revolutionary, despite the quite influential presence of Catholic “liberals” and

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