'''''Summorum Pontificum''''' ([[Bahasa Latin]]: Dari Imam Tertinggi) adalah sebuah surat apostolik dari [[Paus Benediktus XVI]], dikeluarkan sebagai "[[motu proprio]]" (yaitu dengan inisiatifnya sendiri). Dokumen ini memperinci aturan-aturan, untuk Ritus Latin [[Gereja Katolik]], untuk merayakan misa menurut "[[Missale Romanum|tata cara misa]] yang dirancang oleh [[Paus Yohanes XXIII]] di tahun 1962" (bentuk yang dikenal sebagai [[Misa Tridentin]]), dan untuk melayani berbagai [[Sakramen (Katolik)|sakramen]] dalam bentuk lama sebelum adanya perubahan liturgis menyusul adanya [[Konsili Vatikan Kedua]].
TheDokumen documentini,<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum_lt.html text on the Holy See's website;] published officially in ''[[Acta Apostolicae Sedis]]'' XCIX (2007), 777-781 available also with [http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/resources/summorum-pontificum.html an English translation in a parallel column.]</ref> datedtertanggal 7 JulyJuli 2007 anddan indijalankan forcesemenjak sincetanggal 14 September 2007, wasdikeluarkan releasedbersama alongdengan withsepucuk asurat letterdimana in[[Paus whichBenediktus PopeXVI]] Benedictmenjelaskan explained hisalasan-alasannya reasonsuntuk formenerbitkan issuingdokumen itini.<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi_en.html English text on website of the Holy See]</ref>▼
▲The document,<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum_lt.html text on the Holy See's website;] published officially in ''[[Acta Apostolicae Sedis]]'' XCIX (2007), 777-781 available also with [http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/resources/summorum-pontificum.html an English translation in a parallel column.]</ref> dated 7 July 2007 and in force since 14 September 2007, was released along with a letter in which Pope Benedict explained his reasons for issuing it.<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi_en.html English text on website of the Holy See]</ref>
InDalam hissurat accompanying letterpendampingnya, Pope[[Paus BenedictBenediktus explainedXVI]] thatmenjelaskan hisbahwa actiontindakannya wasitu aimeddiarahkan atuntuk broadlymenyediakan andsarana generouslysecara providingluas fordan theberkelimpahan ritualsbagi whichritual-ritual nourishedyang thetelah faithfulmenumbuh-kembangkan forpara centuriesumat andselama atberabad-abad "comingdan toditujukan anpada interior"kehadiran reconciliationsebuah inrekonsiliasi theinterior heartdi ofdalam thehati ChurchGereja" withdalam perselisihan antara [[TraditionalistKaum Katolik CatholicTradisional]]sin disagreement with thedengan [[HolyTahta SeeSuci]], suchseperti aspara theanggota membersKelompok of the [[Society of St.Santo Pius X]]. HeIa statedmenyatakan thatbahwa, whilewalau itawalnya hadterpikir firstbahwa beenkepentingan thought[[Misa thatTridentin]] interestakan inhilang thebersamaan Tridentinedengan Massgenerasi wouldtua disappearumat withyang thetumbuh older generation that had grown up with itbersamanya, some youngbeberapa personsgenerasi toomuda havepun "felttertarik itspadanya attractiondan andmenermukan founddi indalamnya itsuatu abentuk formpengalaman ofdengan encountermisteri with the mystery of[[Ekaristi]] theyang Eucharistsecara particularlykhusus suitedselaras todengan themmereka." InDari viewsudut ofpandang fearsadanya expressedketakutan whileyang themuncul documentsaat wasdokumen inini preparationsedang dirancang, he took pains to emphasize thatia hissecara decisionkhusus inmenekankan nobahwa waykeputusannya detractsitu fromsama thesekali authoritytidak ofmengurangi theotoritas [[SecondKonsili VaticanVatikan CouncilKedua]] anddan thatbahwa, nottidak onlyhanya foruntuk juridicalalasan-alasan reasonsyuridis, butnamun alsojuga becausekarena thepersyaratan requisiteakan "degreetingkat ofpembentukan liturgicalliturgis formationdan andpengetahuan someakan knowledge of the[[Bahasa Latin language]]" areseringkali notjarang found very oftenditemukan, the [[MassMisa of PaulPaulus VI]] remainstetap themenjadi bentuk "normal" oratau "ordinaryumum" formdari ofliturgi the [[Roman Rite]]Ekaristi EucharisticRitus liturgyRomawi.<ref>"The Missal published by Paul VI and then republished in two subsequent editions by John Paul II, obviously is and continues to be the normal Form – the ''Forma ordinaria'' – of the Eucharistic Liturgy" ([http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070707_lettera-vescovi_en.html Pope Benedict XVI's letter to the bishops on the occasion of the publication of ''Summorum Pontificum'', paragraph 5]</ref>
