SACRED CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP Prot. n. 15/72 DECREE The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council ordered the revision of the Ordo Baptismi adultorum, decreeing that the catechumenate for adults, divided into several steps, should be restored, so that the time of the catechumenate, intended for suitable instruction, could be sanctified by sacred rites to be celebrated at successive intervals of time. Moreover, the same Council likewise decreed that both the more solemn and the simpler rites of baptizing adults should be revised with close attention to the restoration of the catechumenate. In compliance with these decrees, the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship has created a new Ordo initiationis christianæ adultorum, which, having been approved by the Supreme Pontiff Paul VI, it has commanded to be published, and it declares that its edition, which is now brought forth, is the typical edition, so that it may replace the Ordo Baptismi adultorum presently set forth in the Rituale Romanum. It likewise has decreed that this new Ordo may be used in Latin immediately, and in the vernacular from the day indicated by a Conference of Bishops after the translation has been prepared and the Apostolic See has confirmed it. All things to the contrary notwithstanding. From the offices of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, January 6, 1972, Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord. Arturo Card. Tabera Prefect A. Bugnini Secretary
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