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95. Utrum lingua sic dicta « per gestus » (sign-language) adhiberi possit in celebratione liturgiae pro surdis?

Affirmative. Nam est unica ratio qua surdi vere actuose participare possunt sacram liturgiam. De facto petentibus quibusdam Coetibus Episcoporum, Beatissimus Pater recenter (14 dec. 1965) benigne concessit ut lingua sic dicta « per gestus » in celebratione liturgiae pro surdis adhiberi valeat, quandocumque ratio pastoralis id suadeat, in omnibus partibus quae lingua vernacula dicuntur. Celebratio ita ordinari potest:
1. Lectiones per signa congregationi significantur.
2. Quoad participationem in aliis partibus quae ad populum spectant:
a) quae a solo celebrante proferuntur, ipse eodem tempore verba profert et simul illa gestibus significat; populus autem gestibus respondent;
b) in partibus vero quae una simul a celebrante et a populo sunt dicendae, v.g. Gloria, Credo, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei, etc., fideles per gestus signa celebrantis sequuntur.

95. Whether the language that is called « gestural » (sign-language) can be employed in the celebration of the liturgy for the deaf?

In the affirmative. For it is the only system by which the deaf can truly actively participate in the sacred liturgy. As a matter of fact, to certain Conferences of Bishops that asked, the Most Blessed Father recently (14 Dec. 1965) kindly granted that the language that is called « gestural » can be employed in the celebration of the liturgy for the deaf, whenever a pastoral reason suggests it, in all the parts which are said in the vernacular language. The celebration can be ordered like this:
1. The readings are conveyed to the congregation through signs.
2. With respect to participation in the other parts which regard the people:
a) what is pronounced by the celebrant alone, he himself at the same time pronounces the words and likewise conveys them by gestures; the people respond with gestures;
b) in the parts which are to be said together by the celebrant and the people, e.g., the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus-Benedictus, the Agnus Dei, etc., the faithful follow the signs of the celebrant through gestures.

Notitiae 2 (1966): 30–31, n. 95deaf, sign languagePDF of Notitiae 2 (1966): 30–31