Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century

Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

Alcuin Reid

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780567668097
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567668073
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Rituals & Practice

'Because the Sacred Liturgy is truly the font from which all the Church's power flows...we must do everything we can to put the Sacred Liturgy back at the very heart of the relationship between God and man... I ask you to continue to work towards achieving the liturgical aims of the Second Vatican Council...and to work to continue the liturgical renewal promoted by Pope Benedict XVI, especially through the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis...and the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum... I ask you to be wise, like the householder...who knows when to bring out of his treasure things both new and old (see: Mtt 13:52), so that the Sacred Liturgy as it is celebrated and lived today may lose nothing of the estimable riches of the Church's liturgical tradition, whilst always being open to legitimate development.'

These words of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, underline the liturgy's fundamental role in every aspect of the life and mission of the Church. Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century makes available the different perspectives on this from leading figures such as Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Abbot Philip Anderson, Father Thomas Kocik, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr Lauren Pristas.

Considering questions of liturgical catechetics, music, preaching, how young people relate to the liturgy, matters of formation and reform, etc., Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource for all clergy and religious and laity involved in liturgical ministry and formation. Bringing forth 'new treasures as well as old,' its contributors identify and address contemporary challenges and issues facing the task of realising the vision of Cardinal Sarah, Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Message of Timothy Cardinal Dolan
• Message of Bishop Dominique Rey
• Message of Robert Cardinal Sarah
• Contributors
• Beauty in the Sacred Liturgy and the Beauty of a Holy Life
• The Reform of the Reform
• The Post-Vatican II Revision of Collects: Solemnities and Feasts
• The Ease of Beauty: Liturgy, Evangelization, and Catechesis
• Addressing the Triumph of Bad Taste: Church Patronage of Art, Architecture, and Music
• Liturgical Music is Non-Negotiable
• Liturgical Leadership in a Secular Society: A Bishop’s Perspective
• Youth and the Liturgy
• The Renewed Understanding of the Liturgy of the Word in the Reformed Liturgy
• The Formation of Priests in “the Spirit and Power of the Liturgy” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 14)—Observations on the Implementation of the Constitution and Proposals for the Liturgical Formation of Priests in the Twenty-First Century.
• Liturgy as the Source of Priestly Identity
• Holy Week Reforms Revisited — Some New Material and Paths for Further Study
• Liturgical Formation and Catholic Identity
• The Reform of the Lectionary
• The Reform of the Calendar and the Reduction of Liturgical Recapitulation
• Living the Liturgy: A Monastic Contribution to Liturgical Renewal
• Homily at the Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Angels
• Index