First floor: The Pontificate

The Liturgical Renewal Room features a Chapel designed by Lello Scorzelli, indicating the Liturgical reforms, which Paul VI carried out through patient mediation, to foster the renewal recommended by Vatican II.The Second Vatican Council sought to bring an aggiornamento to the Church.  The most visible sign of the reform introduced is the liturgy.  Paul VI's name is forever associated with liturgical reform, which he undertook to implement the Council Constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, promulgated on December 4, 1963. He wanted to simplify the rites to make them clearer, thus encouraging active participation in the liturgy.  He personally wrote the rite of the new order of Mass, promoted the use of the vernacular language for the Liturgy instead of the traditional Latin, and in the celebration of Mass, priest facing the Congregation instead of the Altar. The chapel with sculptures by Lello Scorzelli bears witness to the renewal of liturgical celebration and, at the same time, the second dialogue initiated by the Pontiff with artists.