Holy Mass: Approaches to the Mystery reform but from its fully-developed ritual

but from its fully-developed ritual acts

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

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Holy Mass: Approaches to the Mystery reform but from its fully-developed ritualBy 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