Liturgical Press: 724 books
Desert Banquet
A Year of Wisdom from the Desert Mothers and Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The wisdom of the desert fathers and mothers lies in their experiences of solitude, prayer, community life, work, and care for their neighbors. Their goal was transformation of their lives through openness to the presence and energy of God in Christ. They taught by example and by sharing narratives...
At the Heart of Christian Worship
Liturgical Essays of Yves Congar
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Cardinal Yves Congar is universally known and respected as the great ecclesiologist of Vatican II whose seminal ideas helped to reconfigure the landscape of Catholic theology following the council. Less well known is his role in contributing far-reaching insights to the emerging liturgical movement...
Cultivating Soil and Soul
Twentieth-Century Catholic Agrarians Embrace the Liturgical Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Even before Vatican Council II, individuals like Virgil Michel and Catholic social movements like the National Catholic Rural Life Conference attempted to promote greater social justice by reconnecting rural life in the United States with the liturgical life of the church. Efforts to remedy this dislocation...
The Liturgical Sermons
The Second Clairvaux Collection; Christmas through All Saints
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First...
Divine Worship and Human Healing
Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Would many believers consider a wake or funeral an act of worship? What does it mean to say that in anointing the sick or administering Viaticum to the dying humans are healed? Such questions plumb the biblical and traditional depths of the paschal mystery. Just as Jesus' ministry at the social-religious...
Advent to Pentecost
Comparing the Seasons in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Since 2007, use of the Roman Missal of 1962 has been broadly permitted within the church. This creates, in effect, two liturgical years running concurrently. In Advent to Pentecost, Abbot Patrick Regan compares the prayers and prefaces, readings and rubrics, calendar and chants of the 1962 Missal...
Worship In Spirit And Truth
The Life and Legacy of H. A. Reinhold
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Following the death of H. A. Reinhold in 1968, Godfrey Diekmann referred to him as a liturgical prophet." Diekmann, a liturgical giant in his own right, called on others to follow in Reinhold's steps and "take up his mantle in the thorny task" of pastorally implementing the liturgical...
Roman Catholic Worship
Trent to Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
A great deal has happened in Roman Catholic worship since Vatican II promulgated the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy on December 4, 1963. But the myth persists that very little happened in the four centuries between the end of the Council of Trent on December 4, 1563, and Vatican II. Roman Catholic...
Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
This volume contains Saint Bernard's sermons for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery. In the sermons...
Elements of Rite
A Handbook of Liturgical Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Keeping in mind two pastoral considerations - the liturgy itself and the assembly that worships - Father Kavanagh looks not beyond rubrics but deep into their historical and pastoral existence in order to develop rules of style which articulate this existence in current Roman liturgical usage. From this research has come a pastoral manual for clergy who preside at liturgical celebrations.
Uncommon Gratitude
Alleluia for All That Is
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams often says that, no matter what, the proper stance of the Christian in the world is one of gratitude. In this book, Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, and Archbishop Rowan Williams offer us a sweeping set of things and circumstances to be grateful for 'things for...
Seasons of the Spirit
Reflections on Finding God in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Move your prayer life to a deeper level with these faith-filled, inspiring reflections. In Seasons of the Spirit, Jane Rutter guides you gently through the rhythms of the church’s liturgical seasons including Advent, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time. She finds the “God moment” in the actions...
The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy
Why Good Liturgy Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
We all want to celebrate the liturgy well, to experience good, uplifting, and meaningful worship. But what is the best route to follow? In The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy, Thomas O’Loughlin offers a way forward that strengthens faith, builds up Christian community, and points toward a new direction...
by Joseph F. Kelly PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
When was Christmas first celebrated? How did December 25 become the date for the feast? How did the Bible’s “magi from the East” become three kings named Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar who rode camels from three different continents to worship the newborn Christ? How did the Feast of the Nativity...