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È pervenuto, da più parti e da vari luoghi, a questa Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti il seguente quesito:

« È lecito portare, da parte dei Vescovi, la croce pettorale anche sopra la casula o la pianeta? ».

Risposta: AFFERMATIVA.

L’uso di portare la croce pettorale sopra la casula durante le celebrazioni eucaristiche da parte dei Vescovi, pur essendo una peculiare caratteristica del rito ambrosiano e delle liturgie orientali, in questi ultimi anni è invalso molto diffusamente anche nella liturgia romana.

Inoltre è sembrato opportuno e significativo che il Vescovo, sia quando celebra da solo e sia quando presiede una concelebrazione, possa avere un segno che lo distingua dai presbiteri. Pertanto questo Dicastero, in aggiunta a quanto prescritto, stabilisce, de consensu Superiorum, che la croce possa essere portata anche sopra la casula, rimanendo libera la possibilità, a scelta del Vescovo, di portarla sotto di essa.

Roma, 16 Iuglio 1997
✠ Jorge Medina Estévez
Arcivescovo Pro-Prefetto

✠ Geraldo M. Agnelo
Archbishop Secretary

The following question has come to this Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from many parts and places:

“Is it licit, on the part of Bishops, to wear the pectoral cross also over the Gothic or Roman chasuble?”

Response: Affirmative.

The practice of wearing the pectoral cross over the chasuble on the part of Bishops during Eucharistic celebrations, though being a peculiar characteristic of the Ambrosian rite and of Oriental liturgies, in recent years has also been widely accepted in the Roman liturgy.

Furthermore, it has seemed appropriate and significant for the Bishop, both when he celebrates alone and when he presides at a concelebration, to have a sign that distinguishes him from priests. As such this Dicastery, in addition to what is prescribed, establishes de consensu Superiorum that the cross may be also worn over the chasuble, the possibility remaining free to do so under it, at the Bishop’s discretion.

Rome, 16 July 1997
✠ Jorge Medina Estévez
Archbishop Pro-Prefect

✠ Geraldo M. Agnelo
Archbishop Secretary

Notitiae 33 (1997): 280bishop, chasuble, pectoral crossPDF of Notitiae 33 (1997): 280