CATHOLIC LITURGY: ITS FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

This is an enlarged reprint of 1954 edition by Romanitas Press

Completely re-typeset and reformated for easier reading, each chapter features the lithograph headers and footers drawn by the famed Belgian illustrator, Rene De Cramer, that were included in the original 1924 English edition.

Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B. (1880-1966) is perhaps the preeminent representative of the authentic Liturgical Movement. While better known for his internationally popular St. Andrew Missal, this book—originally entitled Liturgia—is his masterpiece.

The contents of this magnificent work:

Biography of the Author

Letter of Mgr. Van Caloen

Preface (of Author)

The Church Adores God by Her Liturgy

The Blessed Trinity

To the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Ghost

Through the Church to God

The Diocesan and Parochial Spirit

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Holy Communion

The Sacraments

The Sacramentals

The Divine Office

Christ in the Liturgy

Mary in the Liturgy

Angels in the Liturgy

Saints in the Liturgy

Mental Prayer and the Liturgy

Liturgical Catechism

Sacred Music and the Latin Language

Liturgy and Sociology

The Missal

Conclusion

Appendices

The significance of this 1954 work, is explained in his Preface: Let anyone desiring to be fully convinced [that a return to the liturgy as “a most efficacious means of ‘restoring all things in Christ’”] ...read the pages of Liturgia.

They have been written to explain the principles—too often unknown or misunderstood—which must guide the liturgical apostolate. In them we have endeavoured to show in how many ways the liturgy is the “primary and indispensable source of the true Christian spirit.”

The front cover is also noteworthy, as it was adapted from an original slip jacket designed by De Cramer for the early French editions.

276 pages, illustrated, softcover.