Liturgical Press: 724 books
A Living Tradition
On the Intersection of Liturgical History and Pastoral Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Maxwell Johnson has made multiple contributions to our understanding of liturgical history and liturgical theology. This volume honors his work by offering a set of important essays by respected scholars that bridge the distance between scholarship and praxis, to be accessible and relevant to both...
by Eric Palazzo, Madeleine Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The history of liturgy and liturgical books is of interest not only for theologians and liturgists but also for historians, art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and researchers in religious sciences. This work meets the interdisciplinary need for a history and a typology of liturgical...
The Heart of Our Music: Digging Deeper
Reflections on Music and Liturgy by Members of the Liturgical Composers Forum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In The Heart of Our Music, master practitioners of the art of liturgical music come together to offer enriching insights, a stirring vision, and practical new ideas that will change the way you think about liturgy and liturgical ministry. These reflections are written with the needs of parish liturgists...
The Heart of Our Music: Practical Considerations
Reflections on Music and Liturgy by Members of the Liturgical Composers Forum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In The Heart of Our Music, master practitioners of the art of liturgical music come together to offer enriching insights, a stirring vision, and practical new ideas that will change the way you think about liturgy and liturgical ministry. These reflections are written with the needs of parish liturgists...
Building from Belief
Advance, Retreat, and Compromise in the Remaking of Catholic Church Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Imagine what Sundays in a parish could be if worshiping communities are assured that the liturgy in their spaces might be a foretaste of the heavenly liturgy. Or what town-hall meetings could also be in a place where parish committees are inspired to know that they can be the instruments of truth...
The Heart of Our Music: Underpinning Our Thinking
Reflections on Music and Liturgy by Members of the Liturgical Composers Forum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
In The Heart of Our Music, master practitioners of the art of liturgical music come together to offer enriching insights, a stirring vision, and practical new ideas that will change the way you think about liturgy and liturgical ministry. These reflections are written with the needs of parish liturgists...
Christ in the Gospels of the Liturgical Year
Raymond E. Brown, SS (1928-1998) Expanded Edition with Essays by John R. Donahue, SJ, and Ronald D. Witherup, SS
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
A decade after the untimely death of renowned Scripture scholar Father Raymond E. Brown, SS, he continues to inspire and inform scholars and preachers, students and pastoral ministers, lay and ordained. It was only days after Father Brown's death...
Between Memory and Hope
Readings on the Liturgical Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This anthology surveys the development and theology of the liturgical year in the order of its historical evolution: From Sabbath to Sunday"; "From Passover to Pascha" (Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost); and "From Pascha to Parousia" (Epiphany, Christmas, and Advent)....
Preaching from and for the Liturgy
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Fr. Joncas explains ways that preachers might take their inspiration not only from the readings from Scripture, but from the liturgical texts of the day's Mass. He considers liturgical preaching drawn from the presidential euchology, the liturgical chants, and the liturgical gestures and objects. Each, he says, can be important roads to drawing believers into a deeper encounter with Christ.
The Prayers of the New Missal
A Homiletic and Catechetical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
After the publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition, much attention was given to the catechesis of the clergy and the faithful on the Order of Mass, which contains the chief theological and spiritual elements of the eucharistic celebration. In The Prayers of the New Missal, Anscar J. Chupungco...
Three Great Days
Preparing the Liturgies of the Paschal Triduum
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
As the summit of the church’s liturgical year, the Paschal Triduum requires the energy, time, and talents of many people within the parish community. In Three Great Days, Jeremy Helmes draws on rubrics, liturgical theology, the church’s tradition, and plenty of lived experience to offer a sound...
Preaching in the Sunday Assembly
A Pastoral Commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
What should preachers aim for in Sunday preaching? In 1982, the USCCB document Fulfilled in Your Hearing: The Homily in the Sunday Assembly answered this question. Here, in a pastoral commentary on Fulfilled in Your Hearing, several Catholic scholars in homiletics, liturgy, and biblical studies both...
New Collegeville Bible Commentary
New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Concise and accessible, this one-volume edition of the New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament allows readers to explore any or all of the books with just one resource alongside their Bibles. The individual commentaries collected here are written by respected scholars, and they break open...
The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy
School of Prayer, Source of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
“I am increasingly convinced that the decisive question that demands an answer from us is not so much how believers experience the liturgy, but whether believers live from the liturgy they celebrate.”With these few words Goffredo Boselli captures the essence of this present work.
Believers...