Adrien Nocent

Adrien Nocent (born February 2, 1913 in Charleroi , † December 9, 1996 in Rome ) was a Belgian Benedictine monk , theologian and liturgist .

life and work

Nocent entered Maredsous Abbey at the age of 19 , professed in 1933, and was ordained a priest in 1938. He studied in Keizersberg Abbey (French: Mont César ) near Leuven , from where the liturgical movement in Belgium had started. His teachers were Bernard Capelle (1884–1961) and Bernard Botte (1893–1980). From 1952 he gave lectures in Brussels at the Center international Lumen Vitae . He studied further at the University of Leuven and in Paris at the École pratique des hautes études . There he graduated in 1959 with the work Un Fragment de sacramentaire de Sens au Xe siècle supervised by Gabriel Le Bras (1891-1970) . La liturgie baptismale de la province ecclésiastique de Sens dans les manuscrits du IXe au XVIe siècles (published in: Miscellanea liturgica in onore di SE il cardinale Giacomo Lercaro . Vol. 2. Rome. Paris. Tournai 1967, pp. 649-794). Then he taught and researched in Rome at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo , whose Liturgical Institute he built up together with Salvatore Marsili (1910–1983) and Cipriano Vaggagini (1909–1999).

Nocent was from 1964 advisor to the Second Vatican Council and from 1969 advisor to the Congregation for Divine Worship . From 1984 he was the first editor of the magazine Ecclesia orans (successor: Anscar Chupungco, 1939-2013). Nocent has given numerous lectures in Italy, Canada, the United States , Cameroon , Senegal and Togo for decades . He was one of the most important academic companions of the Council's liturgical reform.

Nocent, who played the violin himself, was Vice President of the Arthur Grumiaux Foundation.

Works

• Contempler sa gloire . 3 vols. Paris 1960–1965.
  • (German) The holy year . 3 vols. Stuttgart 1965–1966.
  • (Italian) Contemplare la sua gloria . 3 vols. Brescia 1964–1966.
• L'avenir de la liturgie . Paris 1961.
  • (Dutch) De toekomst van de liturgie . Roermond 1963.
  • (Spanish) El porvenir de la liturgia . Barcelona 1963.
  • (English) The future of the liturgy . Montreal 1964.
• (with Marc Mélot) On nous change la messe . Brussels 1965.
• (with Jacques Deretz) Synopsis des textes conciliaires . Paris 1966
  • (Italian) Dizionario dei testi conciliari . Brescia 1967.
  • (English) Dictionary of the Council . London 1968.
  • (German) Concordance of the Council texts . Graz 1968.
• Célébrer Jésus-Christ. L'année liturgique . 7 vols. Paris 1975–1977.
  • (English) The liturgical year . 4 Vols. Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota 1977. Edited by Paul Turner. 3 vols. Ibid 2013.
  • (Spanish) El año litúrgico. Celebrar a Jesucristo . 7 vols. Santander 1977.
  • (Italian) Celebrare Gesù Cristo . 4 vols. Assisi 1977.
• La liturgia. I sacramenti. Teologia e storia della celebrazione . Genoa 1986.
• Le renouveau liturgique. Une relecture . Beauchesne, Paris 1993.
  • (English) A rereading of the renewed liturgy . Collegeville, Minnesota 1994.
  • (Italian) Liturgia semper reformanda. Rilettura della riforma liturgica . Magnano 1993.

literature

Festschrift

• Traditio et Progressio. Studi liturgici in onore del Adrien Nocent, OSB . Rome 1988 (Studia Anselmiana. Analecta liturgica 12) (with list of publications 1955–1987).

Obituaries and scriptures

• Paul De Clerk: "La carrière et l'oeuvre de liturgiste de Dom Adrien Nocent 1913-1996". In: Lettre de Maredsous 26, 1997, 2, pp. 77-80.
• "In memoriam. Dom Adrien Nocent, OSB (1913-1996)". In: Ecclesia orans 14, 1997, pp. 7-13.
• Franciszek Małaczyński: "Śp. O. Adrien Nocent OSB (1913-1996)" In: Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny 50, 1997, pp. 308-309.
• Basilio Rizzi: "Bibliografia di Adrien Maurice Nocent OSB (2.2.1913–9.12.1996)". In: Ecclesia orans 14, 1997, pp. 439-449.

Further literature

• Anscar Chupungco: "The Pontifical Liturgical Institute. A Benedictine service to the Church". In: Gerardo J. Békés (ed.): Sant'Anselmo. Saggi storici e di attualità . Rome 1988, pp. 193-225.
• Pius Engelbert: Sant'Anselmo in Rome. College and University. From the Beginnings to the Present Day . Collegeville, Minnesota, 2015, pp. 260-263.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adrien Nocent in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
• Short biography, Italian, with picture