{"product_id":"a-forest-of-symbols-the-traditional-mass-and-its-meaning","title":"A FOREST OF SYMBOLS THE TRADITIONAL MASS AND ITS MEANING","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top: 15.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Abbé Claude Barthe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe Christian liturgy—and the Roman liturgy in particular—developed and thrived within a tradition of commentary and meditation that was fundamental for its understanding, running parallel with the same way of approaching Scripture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe rationalist influences that led to the decline and eventual rejection of the mystical or spiritual senses of Scripture in favor of a narrowly-conceived literal sense led to a narrowing of liturgy as well, which was reduced to its material parts and their various functions. While in recent decades the importance of the spiritual sense of Scripture has been reclaimed, its liturgical equivalent remains in shadow. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe present book addresses this lacuna with an easy-to-understand summary of the traditional approach to the “forest of symbols” contained in the Roman Mass. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003ePraise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e“The undertaking represented by this book is of capital importance… We must learn to discover or rediscover the liturgy of the Holy Mass such as our Church has transmitted it, starting with an authentic allegorical or mystical explanation, which in a certain way forms the essence of each of our rites, in the same way that a tree’s sap, invisible beneath its bark, provides it with moisture and gives it life and growth.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003e—ROBERT CARDINAL SARAH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, from the Foreword\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e“For almost a millennium, theologians saw in the Holy Mass an allegory of the life of Christ, a symbolic unfolding of the ages of the world, a pageant of mysteries. Under the withering chill of rationalism, this treasure-chest of meditation was first mocked, then forgotten. Fr. Barthe explains why we should recover the mystical interpretation of the Mass and then shows how it is done, reconnecting us with our forefathers in the Roman rite. A potent tonic to restore our lost memories!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003e—PETER A. KWASNIEWSKI\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eReclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e“Drawing on Amalarius of Metz, Innocent III, St. Thomas Aquinas, William Durandus, and Jean-Jacques Olier, among others, Abbé Claude Barthe has synthesized the best insights from the tradition of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eexpositio Missae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e—a genre of Mass commentary, focused on the mystical meaning of the rites, that flourished from the ninth century through the seventeenth. If the mystical meaning is to the Mass what the spiritual sense is to Sacred Scripture, then \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Forest of Symbols\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e reads like a liturgical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003electio divina\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003e—URBAN HANNON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, editor, \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eThe Josias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-AU\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eBook Details:\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e194 pages, paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51804314730729,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2598\/5001\/files\/ttmim.jpg?v=1788635761","url":"https:\/\/ologsct.com\/products\/a-forest-of-symbols-the-traditional-mass-and-its-meaning","provider":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}