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Eucharist as Meaning
Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This study moves beyond postmodern trends in Catholic eucharistic theology by exploring the works of Bernard Lonergan and Louis-Marie Chauvet: “Having learned from both Chauvet’s critique of metaphysics and Lonergan’s development of a critical metaphysics, we hope to offer a fruitful understanding...
The Festal Works of St. Gregory of Narek
Annotated Translation of the Odes, Litanies, and Encomia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Saint Gregory of Narek, a monk of the tenth century, knew how to express the sentiments of your people more than anyone. He gave voice to the cry, which became a prayer of a sinful and sorrowful humanity, oppressed by the anguish of its powerlessness, but illuminated by the splendor of God’s...
Care for the Church and Its Liturgy
A Study of Summorum Pontificum and the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum, designating two "uses" or "forms" of the Roman Rite, declaring the Missal of Paul VI to be the "ordinary form" and the 1962 Missal of John XXIII to be its "extraordinary form." On the same day, the...
Efficacious Engagement
Sacramental Participation in the Trinitarian Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The long-standing tradition of baptizing infants suggests that the sacraments plunge our bodies into salvation, so the revelation of God's love in the sacraments addresses the whole person, not the mind alone. In this work, the contemporary Roman Catholic rite of baptism for infants becomes a case...
Hear My Voice, O God
Functional Dimensions of Christian Worship
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This study considers what Christian worship has meant to its contemporaries across the centuries. It treats different episodes in the history of the Christian Church and applies to each episode the questions:
Why did Christians go to church?
Why worship?
What happened to Christians there, substantively...
by William Harmless SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
As one of the most influential thinkers in Christian history, St. Augustine (354–430) had a flair for teaching and meditated deeply on the mysteries of the human heart. This study examines a little-known side of his career: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism.
ln the revised edition...
Believing in a Revealing God
The Basis of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
What is faith? Is it a thing one has or a human activity? What is revelation? Is it a deposit of truths in the past or God's action in the present?
These questions are addressed by renowned religious educator Gabriel Moran, who draws upon biblical and theological traditions set within today's...
Psalter for the Christian People
An Inclusive Language Revision of the Psalter of the Book of Common Prayer 1979
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The increasing desire among Christians to pray in inclusive language has resulted in the publication of this inclusive language psalter. The editors have selected the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as the basis for their psalter. Techniques for changing all the non-inclusive language to inclusive language...
Let Us Pray
A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Since its initial publication in 2006, Paul Turner'sLet Us Pray has become a valuable resource for understanding, planning, and celebrating the Eucharist.This new edition, thoroughly updated by the author to be in full continuity with the Revised English Translation of The Roman Missal, will be one...
Glory in the Cross
Holy Week in the Third Edition of The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The principal liturgies of Holy Week underwent a series of revisions between 1951 and 2011. In this book, noted liturgist Paul Turner charts the rubrics and prayers of the current rites paragraph by paragraph, explaining the historical development of individual components, how and why the post 'Vatican...
by Hildegard of Bingen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Hildegard of Bingen (1098 '1179) describes the virtue of Fortitude teaching the other virtues in the fire of the Holy Spirit. Like Fortitude, Hildegard was enkindled by the Holy Spirit and edified many with her teaching.
Hildegard of Bingen's Homilies on the Gospels are here translated for...
Sermons for the Autumn Season
Sermons for the Autumn Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the meaning of the feast: “What sanctity can these stones have that we should celebrate their festival? They do indeed have sanctity, but it is because of your bodies. . . ....
Rites of Ordination
Their History and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood...
by Bernard of Clairvaux
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Cîteaux in 1113. In 1115 he became the founding abbot of Clairvaux Abbey, whence his name, Bernard of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard was a gifted and prolific writer of theological treatises, Scriptural commentaries,...