Documents of the Office for Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff
One of the many fairly-obscure groups in the Roman Curia is the Office for Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff. Though it has earlier roots—Pope Pius IV gave certain rights to the Masters of Our Ceremonies in 1563—it was officially instituted as a curial College by Pope Benedict XV in 1917; after Vatican II, in the course of various curial reshuffles, it became an office instead of a college . (The Office provides a history of itself, but only in Italian .) As its name suggests, its main role is in arranging the pope's liturgical celebrations, preparing their booklets, keeping records of them, etc. So one can consult their online archive , going back to 2000, for lists of papal liturgical celebrations and their causes, sometimes with pictures, sometimes with bits of homilies, sometimes with videos, sometimes with PDFs of the full booklets handed out during the celebration. Yet, along with the minutiae and the bookkeeping, the Office has also prepared...