![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides restoring Benedictine life at the monastery at Solesmes after the French Revolution, this great Benedictine contributed to the revival of Gregorian chant, historical scholarship on the origins of the liturgy, and renewed appreciation to liturgical time in his popular commentaries on the liturgical year. Students of the movement will recognize the pivotal role that Dom Prosper Guéranger, the “father of the liturgical movement,” played. ![]() Although recent scholarship has sought to give greater visibility to women’s integral contributions to the movement, 2 this renewed attention doesn’t often extend to the movement’s roots in 19th-century France.Īlthough Guéranger never intended to initiate a women’s foundation to Solesmes, he perceived Benedictine Sister Cecile Bruyère’s spiritual charism of leadership among a group of lay women involved in apostolic work called “The Great Catechism.” In 1866, these women gradually formed a sort of pre-novitiate under Guéranger’s direction, and, at the young age of 22, Jenny was entrusted as the superior of the new foundation. 1 However, women such as Dorothy Day, Therese Mueller, Mary Perkins Ryan, Justine Ward, and many others offered distinctive and substantial contributions to the liturgical movement. Feminist theologian Marjorie Procter-Smith criticized the classical 20th-century liturgical movement as being exclusively initiated and led by men in general and priests in particular, in contrast to the women’s movement as started and directed by women. ![]()
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