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Magisterium, The Council of Trent
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SESSION THE FIRST OF THE OECUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT
DECREE TOUCHING THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL
DECREE TOUCHING THE MANNER OF LIVING, AND OTHER MATTERS TO BE OBSERVED, DURING THE COUNCIL
DECREE TOUCHING THE SYMBOL OF FAITH
DECREE CONCERNING THE CANONICAL SCRIPTURES
DECREE CONCERNING THE EDITION, AND THE USE, OF THE SACRED BOOKS
DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN
CHAPTER I. On the Institution of a Lectureship of Sacred Scripture, and of the liberal arts.
CHAPTER II. On Preachers of the word of God, and on Questors of alms.
CHAPTER I. On the Inability of Nature and of the Law to justify man.
CHAPTER II. On the dispensation and mystery of Christ's advent.
CHAPTER III. Who are justified through Christ.
CHAPTER V. On the necessity, in adults, of preparation for Justification, and whence it proceeds.
CHAPTER VI. The manner of Preparation.
CHAPTER VII. What the justification of the impious is, and what are the causes thereof.
CHAPTER IX. Against the vain confidence of Heretics.
CHAPTER X. On the increase of Justification received.
CHAPTER XI. On keeping the Commandments, and on the necessity and possibility thereof.
CHAPTER XII. That a rash presumptuousness in the matter of Predestination is to be avoided.
CHAPTER XIII. On the gift of Perseverance.
CHAPTER XIV. On the fallen, and their restoration.
CHAPTER XV. That, by every mortal sin, grace is lost, but not faith.
CHAPTER V. Bishops shall neither exercise any pontifical function, nor ordain, in another diocese.
CHAPTER I. Who is capable of governing Cathedral churches.
CHAPTER IV. The retainer of several Benefices contrary to the Canons, shall be deprived thereof.
CHAPTER VI. What unions of Benefices shall be accounted valid.
CHAPTER VIII. Churches shall be repaired: the cure of souls sedulously discharged.
CHAPTER IX. The duty of consecration not to be delayed.
CHAPTER XI. Faculties for promotion shall not avail any one without a just cause.
CHAPTER XII. Faculties for not being promoted shall not exceed a year.
CHAPTER XIV. The civil causes of exempted persons which may be taken cognizance of by bishops.
BULL WITH FACULTY TO TRANFER THE COUNCIL
DECREE CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION OF THE COUNCIL
DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION
DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION
BULL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, JULIUS III
DECREE FOR RESUMING THE COUNCIL
DECREE CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
CHAPTER II. On the reason of the Institution of this most holy Sacrament.
CHAPTER III. On the excellency of the most holy Eucharist over the rest of the Sacraments.
CHAPTER IV. On Transubstantiation.
CHAPTER V. On the cult and veneration to be shown to this most holy Sacrament.
CHAPTER VI. On reserving the Sacrament of the sacred Eucharist, and bearing it to the Sick.
CHAPTER VII. On the preparation to be given that one may worthily receive the sacred Eucharist.
CHAPTER VIII. On the use of this admirable Sacrament.
ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
CHAPTER VII. The qualifications of witnesses against a bishop are described.
CHAPTER VIII. Important episcopal causes shall be taken cognizance of by the Supreme Pontiff.
SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO PROTESTANTS
ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENTS OF PENANCE AND EXTREME UNCTION
Doctrine on the Sacrament of Penance.
CHAPTER I. On the necessity, and on the institution of the Sacrament of Penance.
CHAPTER II. On the difference between the Sacrament of Penance and that of Baptism
CHAPTER III. On the parts, and on the fruit of this Sacrament.
CHAPTER VI. On the ministry of this Sacrament, and on Absolution.
CHAPTER VII. On the Reservation of Cases.
CHAPTER VIII. On the necessity and on the fruit of Satisfaction.
CHAPTER IX. On Works of Satisfaction.
ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION
CHAPTER I. On the Institution of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.
CHAPTER II. On the Effect of this Sacrament.
CHAPTER III. On the Minister of this Sacrament, and on the time when it ought to be administered.
ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION
CHAPTER V. The jurisdiction of Conservators is confined within certain limits.
CHAPTER VIII. No one shall, by virtue of any privilege, punish the clerics of another.
CHAPTER X. Regular Benefices shall be conferred on Regulars.
CHAPTER XIV. That the Mass, Order, and Reformation, shall be next treated of.
DECREE FOR PROROGUING THE SESSION
SAFE-CONDUCT GIVEN TO THE PROTESTANTS
DECREE FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE COUNCIL
BULL FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, PIUS IV
DECREE FOR CELEBRATING THE COUNCIL
DECREE ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS AND FOR INVITING ALL MEN ON THE PUBLIC FAITH TO THE COUNCIL
SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO THE GERMAN NATION
EXTENSION THEREOF TO OTHER NATIONS
DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION
DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION
CHAPTER II. The power of the Church as regards the dispensation of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
CHAPTER III. That Christ whole and entire, and a true Sacrament are received under either species.
CHAPTER IV. That little Children are not bound to sacramental Communion.
ON COMMUNION UNDER BOTH SPECIES, AND ON THE COMMUNION OF INFANTS
CHAPTER II. Those who have not wherewith to live, are excluded from sacred Orders.
CHAPTER V. Bishops shall be able to form perpetual unions, in the cases by law permitted.
DOCTRINE ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.
CHAPTER I. On the institution of the most holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
CHAPTER II. That the Sacrifice of the Mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead.
CHAPTER III. On Masses in honour of the Saints.
CHAPTER IV On the Canon of the Mass.
CHAPTER V. On the solemn ceremonies of the Sacrifice of the Mass.
CHAPTER VI. On Mass wherein the priest alone communicates.
CHAPTER VII. On the water that is to be mixed with the wine to be offered in the chalice.
CHAPTER IX. Preliminary Remark on the following Canons.
DECREE CONCERNING THE THINGS TO BE OBSERVED, AND TO BE AVOIDED, IN THE CELEBRATION OF MASS.
CHAPTER I. The Canons relative to the life, and propriety of conduct of Clerics are renewed.
CHAPTER II. Who are to be promoted to Cathedral Churches.
CHAPTER VI Last intentions to be altered with caution.
CHAPTER VII. The chapter Romana, in the sixth (of the Decretals), is renewed.
CHAPTER X. Notaries shall be subject to the examination and judgment of the Bishops.
CHAPTER XI. Usurpers of the property of any Church, or pious places, are punished.
DECREE TOUCHING THE PETITION FOR THE CONCESSION OF THE CHALICE.
CHAPTER I. On the institution of the Priesthood of the New Law.
CHAPTER II. On the Seven Orders.
CHAPTER III. That Order is truly and properly a Sacrament.
CHAPTER IV On the Ecclesiastical hierarchy, and on Ordination.
CHAPTER III. Bishops, except in case of illness, shall confer Order in person.
CHAPTER IV Who are to be initiated by the first tonsure.
CHAPTER V Wherewith those who are to be ordained are to be furnished.
CHAPTER VII. Those to be ordained are to be examined by persons versed in divine and human laws.
CHAPTER VIII. How, and by whom, each ought to be ordained.
CHAPTER XII. Age required for the major orders the deserving only to be admitted.
CHAPTER XIV. Who are to be raised to the Priesthood: their office.
CHAPTER XV. No one shall hear confessions, unless he be approved of by the Ordinary.
CHAPTER XVI. Those who are ordained shall be assigned to a particular church.
CHAPTER XVII. In what manner the exercise of the minor orders is to be restored.
CHAPTER XVIII. Method of establishing Seminaries for Clerics, and of educating the same therein.
DOCTRINE ON THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
ON THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY.
DECREE ON THE REFORMATION OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER II. Between whom Spiritual Relationship is contracted.
CHAPTER III. The impediment of public honesty is confined within certain limits.
CHAPTER IV. Affinity arising from fornication is confined to the second degree.
CHAPTER VI. Punishments inflicted on Abductors.
CHAPTER VII. Vagrants are to be married with caution.
CHAPTER VIII. Concubinage is severely punished.
CHAPTER X. The solemnities of marriage are prohibited at certain times.
CHAPTER I. The manner of proceeding to the creation of Bishops and Cardinals.
CHAPTER IX. By whom Secular Churches, not of any diocese, are to be visited.
CHAPTER XVI. What duty devolves on the Chapter during the vacancy of a See.
ON THE INVOCATION, VENERATION, AND RELICS, OF SAlNTS, AND ON SACRED IMAGES.
CHAPTER II. Property is wholly prohibited to Regulars.
CHAPTER V. Provision is made for the enclosure and safety of Nuns.
CHAPTER VI. Manner of choosing Regular Superiors.
CHAPTER XIV. By whom punishment is to be inflicted on a Regular who sins publicly.
CHAPTER XIX. How to proceed in cases of pretended invalidity of profession.
CHAPTER XXI. Over Monasteries, Religious of that same order shall be appointed.
CHAPTER V. The conditions and obligations imposed on Benefices shall be observed.
CHAPTER VI. In what manner the Bishop ought to act in regard of the visitation of exempted Chapters.
CHAPTER XIII. The fourth of Funeral (dues) shall be paid to the Cathedral or Parish Churches.
CHAPTER XIV. The manner of proceeding against Clerics who keep concubines is prescribed.
CHAPTER XV. The illegitimate Sons of Clerics are excluded from certain Benefices and Pensions.
CHAPTER XIX. Duelling is prohibited under the most severe penalties.
CHAPTER XXI. In all things the authority of the Aposto1ic See shall remain untouched.
DECREE FOR CONTINUING THE SESSION ON THE FOLLOWING DAY.
DECREE CONCERNING INDULGENCES.
ON CHOICE OF MEATS ON FASTS, AND FESTIVAL DAYS.
ON THE INDEX OF BOOKS ON THE CATECHISM, BREVIARY, AND MISSAL.
ON RECEIVING AND OBSERVING THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL.
ON RECITING, IN SESSION, THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL UNDER PAUL III. AND JULIUS III.
ON THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL, AND ON SUING FOR CONFIRMATION FROM OUR MOST HOLY LORD.
This sacred and holy, ecumenical and general Synod, which lately was assembled in the city of Trent, and is now lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost at Bologna, the same most reverend Lords Giammaria del Monte, bishop of Palaestrina, and Marcellus, of the title of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, priest, [Page 69] cardinals of the holy Roman Church, and Legates apostolic a latere, presiding therein in the name of our most holy Father in Christ, and Lord, Paul III., by the providence of God, Pope; considering that, on the eleventh day of the month of March of the present year, in a general and public Session celebrated in the said city of Trent, in the usual place, all the formalities being observed in the usual manner; (the Synod) ,-for causes then pressing, urgent, and legitimate, and with the interposition also of the authority of the holy Apostolic See, specially also granted to the said most reverend Presidents,-decreed and ordained, that the Council was to be transferred, as it did transfer it, from that place to this city, and likewise that the Session,-indicted there for this twenty-first day of April, that Canons touching the matters of the Sacraments and of Reformation, whereon It had purposed to treat, might be established and promulgated,-ought to be celebrated in this city of Bologna; and considering that some of the Fathers who have been accustomed to be present at this Council,-being some engaged in their own Churches during these last days of the great week (of Lent), and of the Paschal solemnity, and some also detained by other hindrances, -have not as yet come hither, but who nevertheless, it is to be hoped, will shortly be present; and that, from this cause, it has happened that the said matters of the Sacraments and of Reformation could not be examined and discussed in an assembly of prelates as numerous as the holy Synod desired: wherefore, to the end that all things may be done with mature deliberation, with due dignity and gravity, (the Synod) hath resolved, and doth resolve, that it is good, opportunie, and expedient, that the aforenamed Session, which, as has been said, was to have been celebrated on this day, be deferred and prorogued, as it is now deferred and prorogued, to the Thursday within the approaching octave of Pentecost, for the expediting of the matters aforesaid; which day It has deemed, and deems, to be most opportune for the business to be transacted, and most convenient especially for the Fathers who are absent; adding however, that this holy Synod may and can, even in a private congregation, limit and abridge the said term, at Its will and pleasure, as It shall think expedient for the business of the Council.
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