Odnowa śpiewu i muzyki kościelnej – aktualność przesłania św. Piusa X w Inter sollicitudines pastoralis officii z 22 listopada 1903 roku
Restoration of sacred song and music – the relevance of the St. Pius X’s message Inter sollicitudines pastoralis officii from 22nd November 1903

Summary/Abstract: Restoration of liturgy has become one of the crucial actions aimed at restoration of Christian life undertaken by The Church in the XIX and at the beginning of the XX century. Liturgy one more time became the core of Christian life and the source of its restoration “not only with the new means of influence” but by giving the life of the Church “an expression of required solemnity and dignity”. The first and the most authoritative person presenting the liturgy as a source of the spiritual life of each Christian, and not only of small groups of the “chosen” believers, became the Pope Pius the Xth, “the Sheppard of souls”, whose apostolic mission is expressed by the words: “Instaurare omnia in Christo”. Undertaking the realization of his programme “restoration of all in Christ” in the field of liturgy, The Pope Pius the Xth, focussed primarily on restoration of the liturgical song and music: motu proprio Inter sollicitudines pastoralis officii - Tra le sollecitudini. This document was published on 22nd November 1903 in the liturgical memento of the St. Cecilia, a virgin and martyr, the patron of sacral music. On 8th January 1904 the St. Congregation of Ceremonies issued a decree announcing the Pope’s document “a legally valid act of sacral music”. The Holy Father Pius X in motu proprio from 22nd November 1903 published in the form of Instruction of the Sacral Music (Instructio de musica sacra), happily restored the honourable Gregorian chants, described in the manuscripts, to the prime use in Churches, and at the same time collected main rules, aiming at enlarging or restoring the sacral dignity of Gregorian Chants. He also, with the Apostolic Power, ordered to make this collection a legal code of sacred music. The Holy Father Pius X, just at the beginning of his pontificate, directed this relatively voluminous and strict instruction of the sacral chants and music to the whole Church. He was convinced that this was necessary in the situation of a misuse in the field of life of the Church.

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