1) to newly baptized adults in the Mass following their Baptism, confirmed adults in the Mass following their Confirmation; baptized persons who are being received into full communion with the church
2) The bridegroom and bride at their Nuptial Mass.
3) Deacons at their ordination Mass.
4) An abbess in the Mass wherein she is blessed; virgins at the Mass of their consecration; professed religious and their parents, close relatives and other members of their community in the Mass wherein they make their first, renewed or perpetual religion profession on condition that the profession is made during Mass.
5) Lay missionaries at the Mass in which they are publicly assigned to their missionary task; others who, during Mass, are entrusted by the Church with some special mission.
6) A sick person, and all who are present when Viaticum is given in a Mass celebrated in the sick person's home.
7) The deacon and others who have special ministries in a Mass celebrated with singing.
8) When there is concelebration:
a) all who perform a genuine liturgical ministry in concelebration; and all seminarians who are present.
b) all members of institutes professing the evangelical counsels, and other societies whose members dedicate themselves to God by religious vows or promises, provided that the Mass be in their own church or chapel; in addition, all those who live in the houses of those institutes and societies.
9) Priests who are present at important celebrations and yet are not able personally to celebrate or concelebrate.
10) All who are making a retreat or some other form of spiritual exercise, in a Mass specially celebrated for those taking part; all who attend a meeting of pastoral commission, in a Mass which they celebrate in common.
11) Those mentioned in 2 and 4 above, at Masses celebrating their jubilees.
12) Godparents, parents, spouses and lay catechists of a newly baptized adult, during the Mass of Initiation.
13) Parents, relatives and special benefactors of a newly ordained priest at his first Mass.
14) Members of the Community, at a Conventual or Community Mass as described in n. 76 of this Instruction.
Before, women could not do readings, pass out communion, or female children could not be altar servers.
It was phased in immediately before the communion- in the late sixties or early seventies- not strictly speaking Vatican II.Roman Catholic AnswerNo, the Sign of Peace was always in Mass, it was extended to the people during the implementation of the "new" Mass, following Vatican Council II.
There is no change in significance before or after.
Bass Communion II was created in 1999-07.
Vatican Council II (1962 - 1965) was held in Vatican City located in Rome, Italy.
There is no Mass on Good Friday and the communion distributed that day was consecrated at the Holy Thursday Mass. In pre-Vatican II times it was called the Mass of the Presanctified. There is no Mass until the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday.
Yes
Vatican II lasted approximately 3 years: 1962-1965.
In Vatican City, thus the name Vatican Council II.
Communion - 2009 II was released on: USA: 2 May 2009 (limited)
Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were popes during Vatican II.
The language of the Church is Latin. Vatican II changed the Mass to be in the language of the people of the country. Latin remains the universal language of the church.