Liturgy

1. The Spirit of the Liturgy: Why we face East, why sacred music, why beauty matters.
2. The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as heaven on earth, read through Revelation.
3. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: The Last Supper in its Jewish context.
4. The Spirit of the Liturgy — Romano Guardini: The 1918 classic that started the liturgical movement: liturgy as holy play.
5. The Liturgical Year — Dom Prosper Guéranger: The great 15-volume commentary on the Church’s year; beautiful for daily reading.
6. The Rule of St. Benedict: “Let nothing be preferred to the Work of God.”
7. The Stripping of the Altars: What liturgy meant to ordinary medieval Catholics.
8. The Holy Mass — Dom Prosper Guéranger: The prayers and ceremonies of the Mass explained by the great abbot of Solesmes.

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