The Seventeenth Session of the Council of Trent

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
Greatest Books Library
Ecumenical Councils Main Page

SEVENTEENTH SESSION OF THE HOLY, ECUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

Which is the first under the Supreme Pontiff, Pius IV, celebrated on the eighteenth day of January, 1562

DECREE CONCERNING THE CELEBRATION OF THE COUNCIL

Does it please you, for the praise and glory of the holy and undivided Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the increase and exaltation of the faith and of the Christian religion, that the holy, ecumenical and general Council of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, all suspension being removed, be celebrated from this day on, which is the eighteenth of the month of January of the year 1562 after the Nativity of the Lord, consecrated to the chair at Rome of blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, according to the form and tenor of the letter of our most holy Lord, the sovereign pontiff, Pius IV, and that, due order being observed, those things be considered therein which at the suggestion and under the presidency of the legates shall appear suitable and proper to the council for alleviating the calamities of these times, adjusting religious controversies, restraining deceitful tongues, correcting the abuses of depraved morals, and to bring about true and Christian peace in the Church?

They answered: It pleases us.

SUMMONING OF THE NEXT SESSION

Does it please you that the next following session be held and celebrated on the Thursday after the second Sunday of Lent, which will be on the twenty-sixth day of the month of February? They answered: It pleases us.