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St Augustine, City of God, X, 6, quoted from St Augustine: The City of God: Books VIII-XVI, trans. G. Walsh and G. Monahan (New York, 1952), 125-127; see Congar, Lay People, 127-128. 63 A. M. Roguet, “Relazione introduttoria alla discussione sullo schema ‘De fidelium participatione,’” in Angelo Lameri, ed., La «Pontificia Commissio de Sacra Liturgia Praeparatoria Concilii Vaticani II» Documenti,Testi, Verbali (Rome: CLV-Edizioni Liturgiche,2013), 185-188, here at 187. I am grateful to Rev Dr Peter McGrail for drawing my attention to this pre-conciliar liturgical debate. Curiously, Roguet contrasts his view with that of Congar and others who, he says, hold the view that the priesthood of the faithful is “primarily spiritual and analogical, and not properly liturgical” (187). In light of the views of Congar just examined, that judgement would seem to need more nuance. See further, Angelo Lameri, ed., Alla ricerca del fondamento teologico della participazione attiva alla liturgia: Il dibattito nella commissione liturgica preparatoria de ConcilioVaticano II (Rome: CLV-Edizioni Liturgiche, 2016). 64 See Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, trans., Mary John Ronayne, Mary Cecily Boulding, ed., Denis Minns (Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2012), 871 (entry for 7 December 1965), for a list of the main texts of the council to which he contributed. 65 LG 10 indicates how all-encompassing the spiritual sacrifices of the faithful are by adding that the faithful exercise their priesthood also “by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, abnegation and active charity.” 66 Congar, Lay People, 188-189. 67 With regard to the latin original, which says that the priesthoods differ “essentia et non gradu tantum,” it may thus be said that it is better to think of the difference between the two priesthoods in terms of essence and not so much (“tantum”) in terms of degree; see Michael Richards, A People of Priests: The Ministry of the Catholic Church (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1995). 68 St Augustine, City of God, X, 6: “totum sacrificium ipsi nos sumus”; see Congar, Lay People, 127. Perhaps the teaching of St Paul in Col 1:24 may be recalled, also: “in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.” 69 See above, at note 34. 70 According to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (2010), n. 94, the duties of the deacon at Mass include “ministering to the Priest,” “preparing the altar,” “serving the celebration of the Sacrifice,”and “distributing the Eucharist to the faithful.” http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/ 71 See the prayers at the preparation of the gifts in the Roman Missal (2010). 72 Pope Benedict XVI, Apostolic Exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis (2007), n. 55.
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