Adrien Nocent (2 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a Belgian monk and liturgical theologian.
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Together with Salvatore Marsili (1910–1983) Cipriano Vaggagini (1909–1999), and Emmanuel Lane, he founded the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. Nocent became a consultant to the Second Vatican Council in 1964 and in 1969, consultant to the Congregation for Divine Worship. In 1983, he co-founded the liturgical periodical Ecclesia orans with Anscar Chupungco. For decades, Nocent was a sought-after speaker on the topic of post-conciliar liturgical reform.
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Nocent entered military service before his ordination and later during the Second World War when he served in a military hospital and later a military chaplain. Beginning in 1952, Nocent lectured at the Centre international Lumen Vitae in Brussels. He continued his studies at Louvain University and in Paris at the École pratique des hautes études. He finished his degree there in 1959 with a thesis under the direction of Gabriel Le Bras (1891–1970) and titled Un Fragment de sacramentaire de Sens au Xe siècle.
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In his works, Nocent approached the New Testament from the standpoint of sin and reconciliation. For instance, he identified three different interpretations of classical passages in Matthew that are related to the liturgy and the sacrament of penance: juridical, ecclesiological, and demonological. He explained how the juridical interpretation, which holds that the supreme and universal power over sin in the church has been given to Peter and to the apostolic college, is no longer accepted. Nocent also opposed the moderate and balanced position of the Vatican Council.
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He spoke in Italy, Canada, the United States, Cameroon, Senegal and Togo. Many bishops considered him to be an eminent specialist in his field. Nocent was an amateur violinist and Vice President of the Arthur Grumiaux Foundation.
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' Four years after this he published his last work.An Answer Enjoyned to that much applauded Pamphlet of a Namelesse Author, bearing this Title, viz. "A Reply to Dr. Morton's General Defence of three nocent Ceremonies, &c.;" ... Published by his Majestie's special command, London, 4to, 1631.
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The cover of Ecclesia orans Ecclesia orans: Periodica de Scientiis Liturgicis is a peer-reviewed academic journal on all aspects of Christian liturgy published by the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Liturgy of Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino. The journal was established in 1984 by Adrien Nocent and Anscar ChupungcoChupungco, Anscar J. (2010). What, Then, Is Liturgy?: Musings and Memoir.
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Nocent was born in Charleroi and entered Maredsous Abbey at the age of 19, making solemn vows in 1933. He was ordained as a priest in 1938. He studied theology at Keizersberg Abbey (French Mont César) near Leuven, Belgium, where the Liturgical Movement began. Among his teachers were Bernard Capelle (1884–1961) and Bernard Botte (1893–1980).
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For example, slow dissolution rates can prolong the duration of action or avoid initial high plasma levels. Treatment of active ingredient by special ways such as spherical crystallizationM. Nocent, L. Bertocchi, F. Espitalier, M. Baron and G. Couarraze. (2001). Definition of a solvent system for spherical crystallization of salbutamol sulfate by quasi-emulsion solvent diffusion (QESD) method.
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In a book called L'avenir de la liturgie published in 1961, he criticized the mentality that permeated after the Sacrosanctum Concilium. This involved what he called as attitude that favored iconoclasm and the burning of old idols. Nocent described it as too impatient and based on a view that confused idle routine with legitimate tradition. During the Second Vatican Council, he was a member of the committee for the revision of the Lectionary.
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The relics had been associated with the cross from its creation. The relic in the lowest cavity was wrapped in a purple-coloured piece of taffeta and lacks a cedula. A nocent relic wrapped in white linen is in the middle cavity with an accompanying cedula, from Innocent I (r.401-417). The script, Carolingian minuscule dates this to the 10th or 11th century and localises it to the scriptorium of Essen Abbey.
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The Annunciation The Greater Advent or O Antiphons are antiphons used at daily prayer in the evenings of the last days of Advent in various liturgical Christian traditions.A. Nocent and M. J. O'Connell, The Liturgical Year (Liturgical Press, 1977), p. 162. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture. In the Roman Catholic tradition, they are sung or recited at Vespers from December 17 to December 23.
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Moreover, his experience after many years of career and his permanent interest in the game made Cabrera deserver of nicknames such as "El Mago" (The Magician, in Spanish).Su excelso talento cobró dimensión de gran avenida by Enrique Nocent on "La Nueva", 2010-08-12 (Archive) His debut in Primera División was on November 30, 1961. In 1963 Cabrera won his first title with Estudiantes, defeating 49-42 to Independiente in the final game.
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A. Nocent and M. J. O'Connell (1977), Liturgical Year, pp. 163-80. In the Church of England they have traditionally been used as antiphons to the Magnificat at Evening Prayer.J. H. Blunt, The Annotated Book of Common Prayer: Being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England (Rivingtons, 1866), p. 76. More recently they have found a place in primary liturgical documents throughout the Anglican Communion, including the Church of England's Common Worship liturgy.
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In this capacity, he participated in the move for the massive introduction of Scripture in the missal, citing that it constituted a renewal in the Church's liturgical reform. His position on liturgical movement has also been described as "validism", which holds that what matters is not that the liturgical ceremonies have meaning or the sacraments express grace which they signify. For Nocent, all that matters is for the sacraments to be valid, for the formulas to be correct, and for the gestures to be rubrically exact. This, for him makes worship mechanically efficient, resulting to less trouble for worshippers receiving grace.
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253 Just as Abstemius had seen the moral merit of the Mediaeval symbol of the bear and the bees, so the compilers of Renaissance Emblem books were to follow him in using it to point to the consequences of giving way to anger. Joachim Camerarius the Younger included it under the title Violenta Nocent as Emblem 23 in his Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor (1595). The accompanying distich warns that violence brings ill to its author and Camerarius goes on to comment that the Italian writer Luca Contile had earlier associated the symbol with violence.Online archive Another who used the emblem was Cristoph Murer under the title of Libido Vindictae (desire for vengeance) in XL emblemata miscella nova, which was posthumously published in 1620.
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In the sixth century, bishop San Martín de Braga complained in his work De correctione rusticorum about the Galician peasants being attached to the pre- Christian cults: "Many demons, who were expelled from the heavens, settled in the sea, in the rivers, fountains and forests, and have come to be worshipped as gods by ignorant people. To them they do their sacrifices: in the sea they invoke Neptune, in the rivers the Lamias; in the fountains the Nymphs, and in the forests Diana."In Latin: "Et in mare quidem Neptunum appellant, in fluminibus Lamias, in fontibus Nymphas, in silvis Dianas, quae omnia maligni daemones et spiritus nequam sunt, qui homines infideles, qui signaculo crucis nesciunt se munire, nocent et vexant". The yew tree is still very important in Asturian folklore, where it stands as a link to the afterlife and is commonly found planted beside churches and cemeteries.
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