Holy Mass: Approaches to the Mystery reform It is an impressive and

It is an impressive and moving testament to the enormous sanctity of the spiritual family of Benedict and Scholastica

is being republished today for its value as a once-popular and revelatory document of the Liturgical Movement's middle phase

… He wished to encourage all that was sincere in Pusey’s desires for union with Rome and also to dissipate his misapprehensions

but from its fully-developed ritual acts

In order to understand the moral universe in which we live

Holy Mass: Approaches to the Mystery reform It is an impressive andBy A. M. Roguet, O. P. This fine little book from 1951 studies the Mass, not from its origins or from theories about it, but from its fully developed ritual acts. The Mass is a simple reality, yet at the same time rich and complex, as are all things that are concrete and alive. In order to understand it we must go around the mystery, see it from different angles, complete and correct one idea that one ceremony, or group of ceremonies suggests, by