Liturgical Press: 724 books
A Lyrical Vision
The Musical Documents of the US Bishops
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The publication of the US Bishops' document on music in the liturgy, Sing to the Lord (2007), has prompted Edward Foley to review the overall contribution of the Bishops to liturgical music since Vatican Council II. He explores the history and content of the US Bishops’ three previous statements...
One Love
A Pastoral Guide to The Order of Celebrating Matrimony
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The publication of the second edition of The Order of Celebrating Matrimony provides new liturgical and pastoral opportunities for presiders and parishes. In One Love, Fr. Paul Turner—one of the most reliable experts in Catholic liturgy today—provides sound guidance and instruction on the rite....
Reforming the Liturgy
A Response to the Critics
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
2009 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Perhaps no liturgical scholar of our time is better ale than John Baldovin to write with clarity and accuracy about the meaning of the church's liturgy and the history of its development in the last half century. In this summary volume on the reform...
Liturgy and the New Evangelization
Practicing the Art of Self-Giving Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In Liturgy and the New Evangelization, Timothy O’Malley provides a liturgical foundation to the church’s New Evangelization. He examines questions pastoral ministers must treat in order to foster the renewal of humanity that the New Evangelization seeks to promote. Drawing on narrative, as well...
The Word on the Street, Year C
Sunday Lectionary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
In The Word on the Street, John Martens brings the Bible to where people live: in the church, at home, at work, and in the broader world. This Lectionary commentary for every Sunday of the liturgical year will help readers understand the Bible in light of their daily lives, experiences, and challenges...
The Word on the Street, Year A
Sunday Lectionary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
In The Word on the Street, John Martens brings the Bible to where people live, in the church, at home, at work, and in the broader world. This lectionary commentary for every Sunday of the liturgical year offers readers a way in which the Bible can speak to them in light of their lives today.
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The Word on the Street, Year B
Sunday Lectionary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
In The Word on the Street, John Martens brings the Bible to where people live: in the church, at home, at work, and in the broader world. This Lectionary commentary for every Sunday of the liturgical year will help readers understand the Bible in light of their daily lives, experiences, and challenges,...
Divine Blessing
Liturgical Formation in the RCIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
RCIA teams often struggle with getting catechumens and candidates to participate regularly in the church’s liturgy. Those who do often feel bored or confused, or they see it as a nice tradition or an inconvenient obligation rather than the heart of our Catholic faith. So we fill the gap with more...
Liturgy and Secularism
Beyond the Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Can Christian worship engage our secular culture? Should it? While engaging thinkers in philosophy, history, religious anthropology, and liturgical theology, liturgical theologian Joris Geldhof argues that such engagement is necessary—that our liturgy and faith should embrace our modern culture....
by R. Gabriel Pivarnik OP
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Half a century after the Second Vatican Council called for the active participation of the laity in the liturgy, a comprehensive theology of what liturgical participation actually means remains elusive. While most sacramental studies have highlighted the role and action of Christ, the conciliar reform...
Liturgy In Migration
From the Upper Room to Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Liturgy migrates. That is, liturgical practices, forms, and materials have migrated and continue to migrate across geographic, ethnic, ecclesial, and chronological boundaries. Liturgy in Migration offers the contributions of scholars who took part in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music's 2011 international...
At the Heart of the Liturgy
Conversations with Nathan D. Mitchell's "Amen Corners," 1991-2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
From 1991 to 2012, Nathan D. Mitchell was the author of the "Amen Corner" that appeared at the end of each issue of Worship. Readers of Worship grew accustomed to Nathan's columns as invitations to rethink the practice of Christian worship through a liturgical theology that was interdisciplinary,...
Praying and Believing in Early Christianity
The Interplay between Christian Worship and Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
What was the impact of liturgy on the development of orthodox doctrine in the early Christian church? With renowned liturgical historian Maxwell E. Johnson as a guide, readers of Praying and Believing in Early Christianity will discover the important and sometimes surprising ways that worship helped...
There Were Also Many Women There
Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-59
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Where are the women in liturgical history? In considering the influential liturgical movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Katharine E. Harmon reveals that the reality is analogous to Matthew's account of the crucifixion of Jesus: "there were also many...