Josef Andreas Jungmann

Josef Andreas Jungmann, SJ (16 November 1889 – 26 January 1975) was an Austrian Jesuit priest and liturgist. He was an influential advocate of the Liturgical Movement, and is known for his 2-volume history Mass of the Roman Rite, which contributed to informing the reforms to the Mass during and following the Second Vatican Council, as well as his work in the post-Vatican II catechetical movement in the Catholic Church. During his pastoral ministry, he would later come to believe that there was a gap between the "joyful faith" of the Gospel and the "legalistic" approach to the faith of the parishioners, a situation that he felt was a burden.

From 1925 he gave lectures on pedagogy, catechetics, and liturgy at the University of Innsbruck. for his main, 2-volume work The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development, published in 1948. It became a reference book on the history of the Roman liturgical rite of the Catholic Church. Among other things, his book argued that the Roman Rite had undergone frequent changes over the centuries and was not immutable. Jungmann was an influential architect of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, in which he participated as a member of the Preparatory Commissiona in 1960, a peritus for the Commission for Liturgy, and from 1962 a consultor for the Consilium, the commission entrusted with the implementation of Sacrosanctum Concilium. The teacher of catechetics Johann Höfinger was among his students.

From 1927-1963 Jungmann was the chief editor of the Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie.

Works The Gospel and our Faith. Pustet, Regensburg, 1936 The liturgical celebration. Pustet, Regensburg, 1939 Christ as the center of religious education. Herder, Freiburg, 1939 Liturgy. Rauch, Innsbruck. 1941 The Eucharist. Herder, Vienna, 1946 Missarum Sollemnia: Eine Genetische Erklarung der Romischen Messe (A genetic explanation of the Roman Mass) (2 volumes). Herder, Vienna. First edition, 1948; 2nd Edition, 1949, 5th edition, Herder, Vienna-Freiburg-Basel, and Nova & Vetera, Bonn, 1962, translated by Francis A. Brunner as The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development (Missarum Sollemnia), New York: Benziger Brothers., 1951–55. Liturgical renewal. Retrospect and Prospect. Butzon and Bercker, Kevelaer, 1962, Vol. 29 The worship of the Church. On the background of his history briefly explained. Tyrolia, Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich 3rd ed., 1962 Liturgy of the Christian Early Period up to Gregor the Great . University of Freiburg, Switzerland 'Christian prayer in change and existence' '. Publisher Ars Sacra, Munich, 1969, in Live and Believe series Mass in the people of God. A post conciliar view through Missarum Sollemnia. Herder, Friborg-Basel-Vienna, 1970 "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy". In H. Vorgrimler, Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, Vol 1. Burns & Oates, London and Herder & Herder, New York, pp. 1–80, 1966

Biographies Balthasar Fischer and Hans Bernhard Meyer (Hrsg.): J.A. Jungmann. A life for liturgy and kerygma. Tyrolia, Innsbruck et al., 1975. Hans Bernhard Meyer SJ: The theological profile of Josef Andreas Jungmann, SJ (16 November 1889 to 26 January 1975), in Liturgical Yearbook , 39 (1989), pp. 195–205. Rudolf Pacik: "Load of the day" or "spiritual food"? The Liturgy of the Hours in the work of Josef Andreas Jungmann and in the official reforms of Pius XII Up to Vatican II . Studies on Pastoral Liturgy, 12, Regensburg 1997 (Habilitationsschrift of 1995, slightly reworked for printing).

Joanne M. Pierce and Michael Downey (eds.) (1999). Source and Summit: Commemorating Josef A. Jungmann, S.J. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press. .