• Theology Index
• Scripture
• Dogmatic
• Liturgical
• Moral
• Spirituality
• Primary Sources
• Theologians to Read
• Abbreviations

• CDF Sacramental Questions
• CDW Journal Notitiae
• Collection of Liturgical Sources
  • Includes: CDW Notitiae Database, Cross-Reference for the Ordo Missae, etc
• English Chant Settings
• English Missal Tones
• CMAA
• Ritus Servandus
• Vatican MCs Articles
• Missal Manuscript Scans
• Liturgical Manuals
• Liturgical Citation Abbreviations
• Scans of Liturgical Sources
• Studia Liturgica
  • Home of Etudes Liturgiques
  • Has great links and bibliography
• Experience of Worship
  • Re-enactments of Medieval english liturgies.
• Research Databases
  • Usarium: A Digital Library and Database for the Study of Latin Liturgical History in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
    • Database of extant manuscripts, tagged and indexed by rites and usage.
    • FÖLDVÁRY, Miklós István and SZASZOVSZKY, Ágnes Kurczné. “Pontificals, Rituals, and Navigating among Their Contents.” Questions Liturgiques, no. 1 (2020): 3–83. doi:10.2143/QL.100.1.3287690.
      • Article by the database authors explaining the tool.
  • Lectionary Database
  • Lectionary Table
  • http://www.ibisweb.it/liturgia/
    • Text search tools
  • https://liturgia.it/
    • Text search tools
  • http://www.cursus.org.uk/
    • Search manuscripts by prayers
  • Fathers: https://mlat.uzh.ch/browser?path=/38
  • Fathers aligned with Lectionary: http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/20.htm
  • Legal Text Search: https://canonlaw.ninja/
  • http://cantusindex.org/
  • https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/home/
  • Latin Dictionary: THESAVRVS LINGVAE LATINAE
    • See TLL under the Latin: Grammars and Dictionaries for more details.
  • Searchable Bibliography Database: https://www.bibliographia-eucharistica.org/

• Antiphon
  • https://www.cuapress.org/journals/antiphon/
  • Managed by CUA
• Ecclesia Orans
  • Managed by San Anselmo
• Questions Liturgiques
  • Managed by the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Leuven
• Worship
  • Out of Collegville.
  • Was called Orate Fratres
• Rivista Liturgica
  • Eremiti Camaldoles

• Bouyer, Louis. 1955. Liturgical Piety. Notre Dame: University Press.
• Bouyer, Louis. 1965. The liturgy revived: a doctrinal commentary on the Conciliar Constitution on the Liturgy . London: Darton, Longman & Todd.
• Bouyer, Louis. 1963. Rite and man: natural sacredness and Christian liturgy. South Bend, University of Notre Dame Press.
• Bouyer, Louis. 2004. The Christian mystery: from pagan myth to Christian mysticism. London: T. & T. Clark.
• Casel, Odo. 1999. The mystery of Christian worship. New York: Crossroad Publ.
• Guardini, Romano. 2021. The Spirit of the Liturgy. Chicago: The Crossroad Publishing Company.
• Hildebrand, Dietrich von. 2016. Liturgy and personality. Steubenville, Ohio: Hildebrand Project.
• Ratzinger, Joseph. 1996. Called to communion: understanding the church today. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press.
• Ratzinger, Joseph. 1996. The feast of faith: approaches to a theology of the liturgy. San Francisco, Calif: Ignatius Press.
• Ratzinger, Joseph. 2000. The spirit of the liturgy. San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press.
• Vagaggini, Cipriano. 1959. Theological dimensions of the liturgy. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press.
  • Vagaggini, Cipriano. 1958. Il Senso teologico della Liturgia saggio di Liturgia teologica generale. Roma: Paoline.

These are ordered by year.

• Keller, Paul Jerome. “The Importance of a Correct Definition of Liturgy for Divine Worship.” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 26, no. 2 (2022): 154–78. doi:10.1353/atp.2022.0023.
  • Decent overview of the meaning of the word liturgia.
• Fagerberg, David W. 2021. Liturgical dogmatics how Catholic beliefs flow from liturgical prayer. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Bozzolo, Andrea, and Marco Pavan. 2020. La sacramentalità della parola. Brescia: Queriniana.
  • Díaz Dorronsoro, R. “ A. Bozzolo - M. Pavan, La sacramentalità della parola” In Annales theologici, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 476-481. 2022.
• Carstens, Christopher. 2020. Principles of sacred liturgy: forming a sacramental vision. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books.
  • Decent overview and introductory work. Full review: Brummond, Michael. Review of Principles of Sacred Liturgy: Forming a Sacramental Vision, by Christopher Carstens. Nova et vetera 19, no. 3 (2021): 983-987. doi:10.1353/nov.2021.0036.
• Pickstock, Catherine. 2015. After writing: on the liturgical consummation of philosophy. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
• Benedict, S. J., Kenneth Baker, Michael J. Miller, John Saward, and Henry Taylor. 2014. Joseph Ratzinger collected works. the sacramental foundation of Christian existence Volume 11. San Fransisco: Ignatius Press.
• Dobszay, László, and Laurence Paul Hemming. 2010. The restoration and organic development of the Roman rite. London: T & T Clark.
• Marini, Guido, and Angelo Bagnasco. 2013. Liturgia: gloria di Dio, santificazione dell'uomo. Cinisello Balsamo (MI): San Paolo.
• Triacca, Achille M., Adolfo Maqueda Lucas, and Manlio Sodi. 2011. Lo Spirito Santo nella liturgia e nella vita della Chiesa. Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (MSIL 62)
• Bonaccorso, Giorgio. 2010. La liturgia e la fede: la teologia e l'antropologia del rito. Padova: Messaggero.
• Lang, Uwe Michael. 2009. Turning towards the Lord: Orientation in liturgical prayer. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Berger, David. 2005. Thomas Aquinas & the liturgy. Naples, Florida: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University.
• Crouan, Denis, and Michael Miller. 2005. The history and the future of the Roman liturgy. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Reid, Alcuin. 2005. The organic development of the Liturgy: the principles of liturgical reform and their relation to the twentieth-century liturgical movement prior to the Second Vatican Council. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Río, Pilar. 2020. Chiesa e liturgia: Apporti del movimento liturgico al rinnovamento ecclesiologico della prima metà del XX secolo. Roma: EDUSC.
• Río, Pilar. 2021. La liturgia, epifania della Chiesa: Teologia e Magistero da san Pio X al Concilio Vaticano II. Roma: EDUSC.
• Río, Pilar. 2022. Il mysterium dell'Assemblea: Alla radice di un problema attuale. Roma: EDUSC.
• Valenziano, Crispino. 1998. Liturgia e antropologia. Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane.
• Schmemann, Alexander, and Thomas Fisch. 1990. Liturgy and tradition: theological reflections. Crestwood: St.Vladimir's Seminary Press.

• Berger, David. 2004. Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy. Ann Arbor, MI: Sapientia Press.
• Dauphinais, Michael, Andrew Hofer, and Roger W. Nutt, eds. 2025. Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist. Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University.
• Hannon, Urban, and Hugh Christopher Barbour. 2024. Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass. Lincoln, NE: Os Justi Press.
• Hütter, Reinhard. 2019. Aquinas on Transubstantiation: The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
• Quoëx, Franck, and Dominic M. Langevin. 2023. Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press.

• Mediator Dei by Pius XII
• Sacrosanctum Concilium by VII
  • The core of the document is that the liturgy manifests the Paschal Mystery.
• Vicesimus Quintus Annus by JP II
  • Reflections on SC 25 years later.
• Ecclesia de Eucharistia by JP II
• Redemptionis Sacramentum by CDW
• Regarding the Mention of the Divine Name of St. Joseph in the Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV
• Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy by CDW
• Varietates Legitimae
• Latest Guideline on Regional Modifications
• Guide for Largescale Celebrations by CDW
  • USCCB English Translation
• Traditionis custodes
  • Accompaning Letter
  • Responses to Dubia
  • Reservation to Holy See of granting new usages of MR 1962. (Bollettino 21.02.2023)
• USCCB Guidelines on Multilingual Celebrations

• R. KACZYNSKI (ed.), Enchiridion documentorum instaurationis liturgicæ, I: 1963-1973; II: 4.12.1973-4.12.1983; III: 4.12.1983-4.12.1993, C.L.V. – Edizioni Liturgiche, Roma 1976, 1988, 1997
• C. BRAGA – A. BUGNINI (ed.), Documenta ad instaurationem liturgicam spectantia, 1903-1963, CLV – Edizioni liturgiche, Roma 2000
• Decreta authentica Congregationis Sacrorum Rituum ex actis eiusdem collecta eiusque auctoritate promulgata, I: Ab anno 1588 usque ad annum 1877, 9 vol., Typographia Polyglotta S. C. de Propaganda Fide, Romæ 1879-1912

• Nuovo dizionario di liturgia by Domenico Sartore
  • San Paolo Edizioni
  • 1995
• D. SARTORE – A. M. TRIACCA – C. CIBIEN (ed.), Liturgia, («I dizionari San Paolo»),
  • San Paolo Edizioni
  • 2001
• The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship by Peter Fink
  • Liturgical Press
  • 1990
• Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie
  • In 30 volumes
  • Great resource
  • https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=dictarcheologiexn

• Anàmnesis by Marietti
  • In 7 volumes
• The Church at Prayer by Martimort
  • L'eglise en priere
  • In 4 volumes by Liturgical Press
• Handbook for Liturgical Studies by Chupungco, A. J.
  • In 5 volumes
• Lodi, Enzo. 1981. Liturgia della chiesa: guida allo studio della liturgia nelle sue fonti antiche e recenti. Bologna: Edizioni dehoniane.
• Associazione Professori di Liturgia. 2012. Celebrare il mistero di Cristo: manuale di liturgia. 3 vols. Roma: C.L.V.-Edizioni liturgiche.
• Storia liturgica by Mario Rightetti
  • Best history

• Worship in the Early Church: An Anthology of Historical Sources by Lawrence J. Johnson
  • Published by Liturgical Press
• Medieval liturgy : an introduction to the sources by Cyrille Vogel
  • Introduction aux sources de l`histoire du culte chrétien au moyen âge by Cyrille Vogel
• Enchiridion liturgico: Tutti i testi fondamentali della Liturgia tradotti, annotati e attualizzati by Franco Sola
• Enchiridion euchologicum fontium liturgicorum. Clavis methodologica cum commentariis selectis adnexa by Enzo Lodi
• Corpus Orationum
  • Copus Christianorum Series Latina (CCSL) 160 (A-M)
  • History of the prayers in the Missal
• Corpus Praefationum
  • Copus Christianorum Series Latina (CCSL) 161 (A-D)
• Corpus Benedictionum Pontificalium
  • Copus Christianorum Series Latina (CCSL) 162 (A-C)

• Sacramenta: bibliographia internationalis by MAKSIMILIJAN ZITNIK
• Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
  • One volume every year of Elencus bibliographicus sorted by themes with a liturgy section (Theologia Sacramentorum et
    Liturgia)
• Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique
  • At the end of the year publish a bibliography section with a liturgy section (Histoire générale de la liturgie, du culte et
    de l’activité pastorale)
• Orbis Liturgicus. Repertorium peritorum nostrae aetatis in re liturgica by A. WARD – C. JOHNSON
• A Bibliography of Christian Worship by Bard Thomas
• Bibliographia liturgica by Matthew Johnson
• Bibliographie des liturgies orientales by J.-M. Sauget
• www.alcuinus.org
• https://danielmccarthyosb.com/bibliography/

• Biblioteca di Iniziazione alla Liturgia
  • PUSC series of introductory texts
• Bibliotheca Ephemerides Liturgicae Subsidia
• Etudes Liturgiques
  • Liturgical studies
• Monumenta studia instrumenta liturgica (MSIL)
  • Critical Editions of current texts and other theology texts
• Monumenta liturgica Ecclesiae Tridentinae
  • Liturgical Sources from Trent (9th C - 13th C)
• Collectio Monumenta Liturgica Concilii Tridentini (MLCT)
  • Critical Editions of Tridentine texts
  • https://www.libreriadelsanto.it/reparti/libri/liturgia/editiones-typicae-et/monumenta-liturgica/644.html
• Collectio Monumenta Liturgica Piana (MLP)
  • Critical Editions of the liturgical texts just before the reform of Vatican I

• Bradshaw, Paul F. 2012. Eucharistic origins. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers.
• Bradshaw, Paul F., and Maxwell E. Johnson. 2012. The Eucharistic liturgies: their evolution and interpretation. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Boughton, Lynne C. “An Imagined Past: Initiation, Liturgical Secrecy, and ‘Mass of the Catechumens.’” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 25, no. 2 (2021): 161–210. doi:10.1353/atp.2021.0011.
  • Interesting arguments against the existence of teh disciplina arcana and the liturgy of the catechumens
• Cabie, Robert. 1993. History of the mass. Washington, D.C.: Pastoral.
• Fortescue, Adrian. 2007. The mass: a study of the Roman liturgy. Boonville, N.Y.: Preserving Christian Publications.
• Lebrun, Pierre. 2024. The Mass: A Literal, Historical, and Dogmatic Explanation of its Prayers and Ceremonies, Volume I. San Diego: Ubi Caritas Press.
  • 18th Century Foundational Commentary on the Roman Mass from France.
• Palazzo, Eric. 1998. A history of liturgical books from the beginning to the thirteenth century. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Pontificio ateneo San Anselmo (Rome). 1983. La liturgia, eucaristia: teologia e storia della celebrazione. Anàmnesis 3:2. Genova: Marietti.

• Barba, Maurizio. 2006. Institutio generalis Missalis Romani: textus, synopsis, variationes. Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice vaticana.
• DeGrocco, Joseph. 2011. A pastoral commentary on the general instruction of the Roman Missal. Chicago, Ill: Liturgy Training Publications.
• Foley, Edward; Nathan D. Mitchell; Joanne M. Pierce, eds. 2009. A Commentary on the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Liturgical Press.
• Moore, Gerard. 2007. Understanding the General instruction of the Roman missal. New York: Paulist Press.
• Turner, Paul. 2011. A guide to the General instruction of the Roman missal. Chicago, IL: Liturgy Training Publications.

• Arocena, Félix María. 2021. Las colectas del Misal romano: Domingos y Solemnidades del Señor. Roma: CLV, Centro liturgico vincenziano.
• Hazell, Matthew P. 2018. The proper of time in the post-Vatican II liturgical reforms. Lectionary Study Press.
• Hazell, Matthew P. 2020. The post-communion prayers in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite: texts and sources. Lectionary Study Press.
• McCarthy, Daniel P., and Leachman, James G. . 2008. Appreciating the collect: an Irenic methodology. Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey Press.
• Pristas, Lauren. 2013. Collects of the Roman Missals: a Comparative Study of the Sundays in Proper Seasons before and after the Second Vatican Council. Edinburgh: Bloomsbury T & T Clark.
• Ward, Anthony, and Johnson, Cuthbert , “The Sources of the Roman Missal (1975),” Notitiae 345-355–356 (1996): 7–179.

• Soubigou, Louis. 1971. A commentary on the Prefaces and the Eucharistic prayers of the Roman missal. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Ward, Anthony, and Cuthbert Johnson. 1989. The prefaces of the Roman missal: a source compendium with concordance and indices. Rome: Congregation for Divine Worship.

• Barba, Maurizio. 2008. La riforma conciliare dell'Ordo missae: il percorso storico-redazionale dei riti d'ingresso, di offertorio e di comunione. Roma: Edizioni Liturgiche.
• Botte, Bernard, and Christine Mohrmann. 1953. L'ordinaire de la Messe. Louvain: Du Cerf.
• Driscoll, Michael S., Michael Joncas, and Michael Joncas. 2011. The order of mass: a Roman missal study edition and workbook. Chicago, IL: Liturgy Training Publications.
• USCCB. 2003. Introduction to the order of Mass: a pastoral resource. Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

• Botte, Bernard. 1935. Le canon de la messe romaine. Louvain: Abbaye du Mont César.
• Hänggi, Anton. 1978. Prex eucharistica: textus e variis liturgiis antiquioribus selecti. Fribourg, Suisse: Éd. Univ.
• Jungmann, Josef A., and George C. Davey. 1978. The Eucharistic prayer. Wheathampstead: A. Clarke.
• Mazza, Enrico. 2009. The eucharistic prayers of the Roman rite. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press.
• Mazza, Enrico. 1995. The origins of the Eucharistic prayer. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• McKenna, John H. 2009. The Eucharistic epiclesis: a detailed history from the patristic to the modern era. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books.
• Stevenson, Kenneth W. 1986. Eucharist and offering. New York: Pueblo Publ.
• Vagaggini, Cipriano. 1967. The canon of the mass and liturgical reform. London: Chapman.

• Baudot, Jules. 1910. The lectionary: its sources and history. London: Catholic Truth Society.
• Hazell, Matthew P., and Peter A. Kwasniewski. 2016. Index lectionum: comparative table of readings for the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman Rite. Lectionary Study Press.

• Ordo lectionum Missae
  • General Introduction to the Lectionary
  • English (Archive)
• Ordini Lectionum Missae Adiciendae

• Fathers' Commentary for the Lectionary Readings

• USCCB Committee on Divine Worship. “The Observance of Memorials in the Liturgy of the Hours.” Newsletter 58, no. February-March (2022): 8–11. (https://www.usccb.org/resources/newsletter-2022-02-and-03.pdf)

• Associazione Professori e Cultori di Liturgia, and Settimana di studio dell'Associazione Professori di Liturgia. 1994. Liturgia delle Ore: tempo e rito ; atti della XXII Settimana di Studio dell'Associazione Professori di Liturgia, Susa (TO), 29 agosto - 3 settembre 1993. Roma: CLV, Ed. Liturgiche.
• Bradshaw Paul F. 2008. Daily Prayer in the Early Church : A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office. Eugene Ore: Wipf & Stock.
• Braga, Carlo. 2008. La liturgia delle ore al Vaticano II. Roma: CLV-Edizioni Liturgiche.
• Campbell, Stanislaus. 1995. From breviary to Liturgy of the hours: the structural reform of the Roman Office, 1964-1971. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Join-Lambert, Arnaud. 2009. La liturgie des heures par tous les baptisés: l'expérience quotidienne du mystère Pascal. Leuven: Peeters.
• Lameri, Angelo. 2009. La liturgia delle ore. Padova: Messaggero.
• Reynal, Daniel de. 1978. Théologie de la liturgie des heures. Paris: Beauchesne.
• Rosso, Stefano. 2002. Il segno del tempo nella liturgia: anno liturgico e liturgia delle ore. Leumann (Torino): Elledici.
• Taft, Robert F. 2009. Liturgia: modello di preghiera, icona di vita. Roma: Lipa.
• Taft, Robert F. 1993. The liturgy of the hours in East and West: the origins of the divine office and its meaning for today. Collegeville, Minn: The Liturgical Press.

• Wadsworth, Andrew, Nicholas Richardson, Peter C. Finn, and Maria Kiely eds. 2024. Cantate Domino: A Commentary on the Hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours. 5 vols. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.

• Adam, Adolf. 1992. The liturgical year: its history and its meaning after the reform of the liturgy. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
  • Adam, Adolf.1984 L’anno liturgico celebrazione del mistero di Cristo: storia, teologia, pastorale. Torino: Elledici.
• Aliaga, Emilio. 1980. Teología del tiempo litúrgico. Valencia: Facultad de Teología S. Vicente Ferrer.
• Augé, Matias, and Anscar J. Chupungco. 1988. L' anno liturgico: storia, teologia e celebrazione. Anamnesis 6. Genova: Marietti.
• Augé, Matias. 2009. L' anno liturgico: è Cristo stesso presente nella sua Chiesa. Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
  • Great book on the whole of the liturgical and its place as a sacramental.
• Bellavista, Joan. 1989. El año litúrgico. Madrid: Ediciones San Pablo.
• Bergamini, Augusto. 2002. L' anno liturgico. Cristo festa della Chiesa. Storia, celebrazione, teologia, spiritualità, pastoral. Milano: San Paolo.
• Borobio, Dionisio. 1994. La celebrazione nella Chiesa 3: Ritmi e Tempi della celebrazione. Torino: Elledici.
• Bradshaw, Paul F., and Maxwell E. Johnson. 2010. The origins of feasts, fasts, and seasons in early Christianity. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• López Martín, Julián. 1987. L'anno liturgico: storia e teologia. Cinisello Balsamo: Edizioni Paoline.
• Pieper, Josef. 1973. In tune with the world: a theory of festivity. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press.
• Regan, Patrick. 2012. Advent to Pentecost: comparing the seasons in the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman rite. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Rosso, Stefano. Il Segno del Tempo nella liturgia. Elledici. Torino. 2002.
• Talley, Thomas J. 2000. Origins of the Liturgical Year. Minn: Liturgical Press.

• Mysterii Paschalis by Paul VI
  • On the Liturgical Year and new Universal Roman Calendar
• Tertio Millennio Adveniente by JPII
• Dies Domini by JPII

• Paschalis Sollemnitatis by the Congregation of Divine Worship
  • Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts
• Beatrice, Pier Franco. 1983. La lavanda dei piedi: contributo alla storia delle antiche liturgie cristiane. Roma: C.L.V.-Edizioni liturgiche.
• Goddard, Philip J. 2011. Festa Paschalia: a history of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman rite. Leominster: Gracewing.

• Tra le sollecitudini by Pius X
  • English
• Musicam Sacram by VII
• Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship by USCCB
• Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics by USCCB

• Collins, Mary, David Noel Power, and Mellonee V. Burnim. 1989. Music and the experience of God. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.
• Foley, Edward. 1995. Ritual music: studies in liturgical musicology. Beltsville, MD: Pastoral Press.
• Foley, Edward. 1984. Music in ritual: a pre-theological investigation. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press.
• Routley, Erik. 1995. Church music and the Christian faith. Carol Stream, Ill: Agape.

• Crocker, Richard L. 1977. The Early Medieval Sequence. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Dickinson, Edward. 1970. Music in the history of the Western church: with an introduction on religious music among primitive and ancient peoples. New York: Scribners.
• Foley, Edward. 2020. Foundations of Christian music: the music of pre-Constantinian Christianity. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock.
• Kelly, Thomas Forrest. 2009. Plainsong in the age of polyphony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• McKinnon, James W. 2000. The Advent project the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass proper. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Morehen, John, and Peter Le Huray. 1995. English choral practice c.1400-c.1650: a memorial volume to Peter le Huray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Parrish, Carl, and James MacKinnon. 2009. The notation of medieval music. New York, NY: Pendragon Press.
• Reese, Gustave. 1941. Music in the Middle Ages: with an Introduction on the Music of Ancient Times. London: Dent.
• Saulnier, Daniel. 2009. Gregorian chant: a guide to the history and liturgy. Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press.
• Treacy, Susan. 2021. The music of Christendom: a history. Greenwood Village, CO: Augustine Institute / San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Wilson-Dickson, Andrew. 2003. The story of Christian music: an illustrated guide to all the major traditions of music in worship. Oxford: Lion.

• Artuso, Lorenzo. 2002. Liturgia e spiritualità: profilo storico. Padova: Messagerro.
• Braso, Gabriel M. 1971. Liturgy and spirituality. St John's Abbey, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press.
• Corbon, Jean. 2005. The wellspring of worship. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Fagerberg, David W. 2019. Liturgical mysticism. Steubenville, Ohio : Emmaus Accademic.
• Power, David Noel. 1997. The eucharistic mystery: revitalizing the tradition. New York: Crossroad.
• Ratzinger, Joseph. 2012. Holy days: meditations on the feasts, fasts, and other solemnities of the church. Toronto: Novalis.

• Molinero, Antonio C. 1992. Las Otras liturgias occidentales. Bilbao: Ega.
• Ramis Miquel, Gabriel. 2013. Introducción a las liturgias occidentales no romanas. Roma: Edizioni Liturgiche.

• The Sarum missal by J. Wickham Legg
• Urquhart, R. J. 2021. Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal: a careful conjecture. London: T&T Clark.
• Stowe Missal
  • 8 C Irish Sacramentary
• Orme, Nicholas. 2021. Going to Church in Medieval England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Missale Gothicum
  • Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta. Series maior, Fontes, 5, 1961
  • Corpus Christianourm, Ser. Latina, 159D, 2005
• Gabriel Ramis Miquel is the key person here

• Orientale Lumen by JP II
• Orientalium dignitas by Leo XIII

• Syriac Overview
• Alexopoulos, Stefanos and Maxwell E Johnson. 2022. Introduction to Eastern Christian Liturgies. Collegeville Minnesota: Liturgical Press Academic.
• Nin, Manuel. 2017. Introduzione alle liturgie orientali. Roma: EDUSC.
• Schulz, Hans-Joachim. 1986. The Byzantine liturgy: symbolic structure and faith expression. New York: Pueblo Pub. Co.

• Hanssens, Joannes Michael. 1930. Institutiones liturgicae de ritibus orientalibus. 3 vols. Romae: Univ. Greg.
• Nin, Manuel, and Emidio Vergani. 2017. “La preghiera è il nostro ornamento”: una scelta di testi siriaci : (IV-VII secolo). Milano: Centro ambrosiano.
• Taft, Robert F. 1992. The Byzantine rite: a short history. Collegeville, Minn: The Liturgical Press.
• Wybrew, Hugh. 2013. Orthodox liturgy: the development of the eucharistic liturgy in the Byzantine rite. London: Spck Publishing.

• Donadeo, Maria, and Miroslav S. Marusyin. 1991. L'anno liturgico bizantino. Brescia: Morcelliana.
• Nin, Manuel. 2013. Il soffio dell'Oriente siriaco: l'anno liturgico siro occidentale. Città del Vaticano: Libreria editrice vaticana.
• Nin, Manuel. 2011. Tempo di Dio tempo della Chiesa: l'anno liturgico bizantino. Genova: Marietti.

• Angenendt, Arnold. 2005. Liturgia e storia: lo “sviluppo organico in questione”? Assisi: Cittadella Ed.
• Baumstark, Anton. 2011. On the historical development of the liturgy. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press.
• Baggs, Charles Michael. 1859. The ceremonies of Holy Week at the Vatican and S. John Lateran's described and illustrated from history and antiquites; with an account of the Armenian Mass at Rome on Holy Saturday and the ceremonies of Holy Week at Jerusalem. Rome: Monaldi.
• Matter, E. Ann, and Thomas J. Heffernan. 2005. The liturgy of the medieval church. Kalamazoo, Mich: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University.
• Pecklers, Keith F. 2012. Liturgy: the illustrated history. Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press.

• Jungmann, Josef A. 2012. The mass of the Roman rite: its origin and development. Notre Dame, Ind: Ave Maria.
• Lang, Uwe Michael. The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform. First edition. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • Important update to Jungmann's history.
• Loret, Pierre. 1982. The story of the Mass: from the Last Supper to the present day. Liguori, Mo: Liguori Publications.
• Mazza, Enrico. 1999. The celebration of the Eucharist: the origin of the rite and the development of its interpretation. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.

• Salmon, Pierre. 1959. Les «Tituli Psalmorum» des manuscrits latins. Paris: Les éditions du cerf.
• Salmon, Pierre. 1959. L’Office Divin. Histoire de la formation du bréviaire. Paris: Les éditions du cerf.
• Salmon, Pierre. 1967. L'office divin au moyen age. Histoire de la formation du breviaire du ix au xvi siecle. Paris: Les éditions du cerf.

See the bibliography on the Last Supper in the Biblical page and on The Altar below.

• Baumstark, Anton. 1958. Comparative liturgy . Westminster: Newman Press.
  • Baumstark, Anton, and Bernard Botte. 1973. Liturgie comparée; principes et méthodes pour l'étude historique des liturgies chrétiennes. Chevetogne, Belgique: Éditions de Chevetogne.
• McGowan, Andrew Brian. 2016. Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.
• Jungmann, Josef A. 1977. The early liturgy, to the time of Gregory the Great. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press.
• Stewart, Alistair C. 2023. Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans.

• Botte, Bernard. 1988. From silence to participation: an insider's view of liturgical renewal. Washington D.C: Pastoral Press.
• Caldecott, Stratford. 1998. Beyond the prosaic renewing the liturgical movement. Edinburgh: Clark Ltd.

• Didache
  • The Didache: a commentary by Niederwimmer, Kurt, 1998
• Traditio Apostolica
  • Bradshaw, Paul F. Apostolic Tradition: A New Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press Academic, 2023.
  • Dix, Gregory, and Henry Chadwich. 1992. The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome. 3rd ed. London: Alban Press.
  • Bradshaw, Paul F, Maxwell E. Johnson, and L. Edward Phillips. 2002. The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
  • Botte, Bernard. 1984. La Tradition apostolique.
• Constitutio Apostolorum
• Didascalia Apostolorum
  • Didascalia Apostolorum, R. Hugh Connoly, Oxford, 1969
  • Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum, Franciscu Funk, 1905
  • The Didascalia apostolorum in English by Margaret Dunlop Gibson. 1903
• The Itinerary of Egeria
  • Itinerarium Egeriae
  • https://liturgia.it/content/itinerarium.pdf
  • http://thelatinlibrary.com/egeria.html
  • Patrologia Latina (Migne) 87, 421-426
  • CPL 2325/CCSL 175
  • SC 296
  • Egeria, journey to the Holy Land. Brepols Library of Christian Sources (BLCS), 1 by McGowan and Bradshaw
• De Sacramentis by St. Ambrose
  • Directed towards the Neophytes, explained what they had recently experienced.
  • PL 16, 417 (435)
  • CCL 73 13-85
  • SCh 25 2nd Ed
• De Mysteriis (On the Mysteries) by St. Ambrose
  • Directed toward his regular community. Much of the same information as De Sacramentis.
  • PL 16, 389 (405)
  • CCL 73 87-116
  • SCh 25 2nd Ed
• Catecheses by St. Cyril of Jerusalem
  • Procatechesis: PG 33, 332-365
  • Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-18: PG 33, 369-1060
  • St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Lectures on the Christian Sacraments. The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses by F. L. Cross
• Mystagogiae 1-5 by St. Cyril of Jerusalem
  • PG33, 1065-1128
  • SCh 126 2nd Ed
  • St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Lectures on the Christian Sacraments. The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses by F. L. Cross
• Ordines Romani
  • Rubrics and descriptions of the early roman rite
  • Les Ordines Romani du haut Moyen Âge
  • For purchase: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/search_results.php?series="Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense"&lang=en&exact=true
  • Can Search here: http://www.ibisweb.it/liturgia/

• Leonine or Veronese
  • Attributed to Leo I (+461)
  • Only one existing from Verona. Composed 561-574 and this manuscript comes from 600-635.
  • Critical Edition: L. C. MOHLBERG – L. EIZENHÖFER – P. SIFFRIN (ed.), Sacramentarium Veronense (Cod. Bibl. Capit. Veron. LXXXV[80]), Herder, Roma 1978 3rd Ed.
  • Old Edition: https://archive.org/details/libellisacrament0000stui/mode/2up
• Gelasian (Gelasianum Vetus)
  • Only one copy with some Gallic insertions. Copied in 750.
  • Gelasian (+496)
  • Critical Edition: L. C. MOHLBERG – L. EIZENHÖFER – P. SIFFRIN (edd.), Liber Sacramentorum Romanæ Æclesiæ ordinis anni circuli (Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316/Paris Bibl. Nat. 7193, 41/56) (Sacramentarium Gelasianum), Herder, Roma 1981 3rd Ed.
  • Old Edition of Above: https://archive.org/details/mohlberg1960libersacramentorum
• Gregorian
  • Gregorian the Great (+604)
  • It existed already by 630 in Rome.
  • Sacramentario gregoriano. Testo latino-italiano e commento by Sodi
    • Latin-Italian version
  • Papal Edition
  • Priestly Edition
    • A. CATELLA – F. DELL’ORO – A. MARTINI (ed.), Liber Sacramentorum Paduensis (Padova, Biblioteca Capitolare, cod. D 47), Edizioni Liturgiche, Roma 2005
  • Hadrian Edition
    • J. DÉCREUX, Le Sacramentaire de Marmoutier (Autun 19 bis) dans l’histoire des Sacramentaires carolingiens di IXe siècle, Revues et mis au point par Victor Saxer, I: Étude; II: Texte, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano 1985 (845-850)
    • Sacramentarium gregorianum cameracense, ed. H. Lietzmann, Das Sakramentarium gregorianum nach dem Aachener Urexemplar(Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen 3), Aschendorff, Münster 1911, rist. 1958. [cod. cameracensis 164 (139)] (811-812)
• Gelasian 8th C (Mix of Galican and Old Gelasian)
  • Many examples
  • Sacramentorum Gellonensis
    • A. DUMAS (ed.), Liber Sacramentorum Gellonensis, I: Textus; II: Introductio, tabulæ et indices, (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 159-159A), Brepols, Turnhout 1981 (CC 159.1-2 SL).
    • Text: https://archive.org/details/libersacramentor0000cath/page/n5/mode/2up
    • Tables: https://archive.org/details/libersacramentor0000cath_u2w4/page/n5/mode/2up

• Rubrics and descriptions of the early roman rite
• Les Ordines Romani du haut moyen age, 5 vol. ed. M. Andrieu (Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense. Études et documents 11, 23, 24 28, 29)
  • 8th C through 10th C
  • More than 50 different OR
  • For purchase: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/search_results.php?lang=en&any=Les+Ordines+Romani+du+haut+Moyen+%C3%82ge
• Can Search here: http://www.ibisweb.it/liturgia/
• First came in to existence in the 8th C
• Ordo Romanus Primus
  • It is the most important one, from the 8th - 9th C
  • Written by a specialist for people un familiar with the Roman liturgy

• Roman-Germanic (PRG)
  • C. VOGEL – R. ELZE (ed.), Le Pontifical romano-germanique du dixième siècle, I: Le texte I (NN. I-XCVIII); II: Le texte II (NN. XCIX-CCLVIII); III: Introduction générale et Tables, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1963, 1972
  • For Purchase (search for it): https://www.vaticanlibrary.va/en/publications/
  • Online Database comparing extant versions: https://henrybradshawsociety.org/prg-database/
• XII C (PXII)
  • M. ANDRIEU, Le Pontifical romain au Moyen-Age, I: Le Pontifical romain du XIIe siècle, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 1938, ristampa anastatica 1972
• XIII C
  • ANDRIEU, M. (ed) Le Pontificale romain au moyen-âge II. Le Pontificale de la Curie Romaine au XIIIe siècle, Città del Vaticano 1940, 479-513 (Ordo Romanus X)
• Guillaume Durand (PGD)
  • Le Pontificale romain au moyen-âge III. Le Pontificale de Guillaume Durand
  • For Purchase: https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042928121&series_number_str=49&lang=en
  • Some modifications of the 12th C Edition
  • Came out at the end of the XIII C
• 1595
  • M. Sodi – A.M. Triacca (edd.), Pontificale Romanum. Editio Princeps (1595-1596).
  • Fromalized the PGD
• Other in between
• 1961
  • MLP 3 Pontificale Romanum Editio Typica 1961-1962

• OR XI
• OR XIII
• OR XV
  • First proper Ceremonial
• 1600
  • A.M. Triacca – M. Sodi (edd.), Caeremoniale Episcoporum. Editio Princeps (1600)
• 1651
  • Caeremoniale episcoporum Clementis VIII primum nunc denuo Innocentii Papae X, auctoritate recognitum, Typis Reu. Camerae Apostolicae, Romae 1651.
  • Mostly typographical corrections
• One More
• 1837
• 1948
• 1984
• Bibliography

• Bobbio Missal
  • 7th C
• Andechs Missal
• Missal of the Roman Curia in 13th C
  • Derived from the mixed Gregorian-Hadrian Sacramentaries
• Ms. Fratrum Minorum
  • M. PRZECZEWSKI (ed.), Missale Franciscanum Regulæ codicis VI.G.38 Bibliothecæ Nationalis Neapolinensis, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2003
• Sens Missal
  • 15th C
• 1474 Missal
• 1570
  • M. Sodi – A.M. Triacca (edd.), Missale Romanum. Editio Princeps (1570)
• The ones in between
• 1962
  • MLP 1 Missale Romanum Editio Typica 1962
• 1970
• 1971
• 1975
  • "The Sources of the Roman Missal (1975)," Notitiae 354-355-356 (1996): 7-179 by Anthony Ward and Cuthbert Johnson
• 2001
• 2008 emendation

• Rituale Romanum : editio princeps (1614)
  • Monumenta liturgica Concilii Tridentini ; 5
• Rituale Romanum (1952)
  • Monumenta liturgica piana ; 2

Remember to check Clavis Patrum Latinorum (CPL) for most up to date critical editions. Extended bibliography of most sources: http://paulorenaliturgia.com/en/recursos/fuentes/

• Sacramentario di Trento, in F. DELL’ORO ED ALTRI (ed.), Monumenta liturgica Ecclesiæ Tridentinæ sæculo XIII antiquiora, II/A: Fontes liturgici: Libri Sacramentorum, Società Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, Trento 1985, pp. 1-416
• Il Sacramentario del Vescovo Udalrico II, in F. DELL’ORO ED ALTRI (ed.), Monumenta liturgica Ecclesiæ Tridentinæ sæculo XIII antiquiora, II/B: Fontes liturgici: Libri Sacramentorum, Società Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, Trento 1987, pp. 561-874
• A. PAREDI – G. FASSI (ed.), Sacramentarium Bergomense: Manoscritto del secolo IX della Biblioteca di S. Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo, Edizione «Monumenta Bergomensia», Bergamo 1962
• F. TERRIZZI (ed.), Il Sacramentario di Palermo, 2 vol., Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose, Palermo 1980
• Sacramentarium Adelpretianum (Wien, Oest. Nationalbibl., Cod. Vindobon. Ser. n. 206), in F. DELL’ORO ED ALTRI (ed.), Monumenta liturgica Ecclesiæ Tridentinæ sæculo XIII antiquiora, II/B: Fontes liturgici: Libri Sacramentorum, Società Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, Trento 1987, pp. 877-1237
• M. KAPRON (ed.), Antiphonarium Archivi S. Rufini. Assisi (Codex 5): componenti testuali, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2009
• G. SHIN-HO CHANG (ed.), Vetus Missale Romanum Monasticum Lateranense, Archivii Basilicæ Lateranensis Codex A65 (olim 65): Introduzione, Edizione semicritica e Facsimile (f. 208 - f. 327), Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2002
• A. MARTINI (ed.), Il cosiddetto Pontificale di Poitiers (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, cod. 227), Herder, Roma 1979
• F. DELL’ORO – R. MAMBRETTI (ed.), Liber Ordinarius Medioetensis cum Kalendario-obituario, Tomus A: Liber Ordinarius Medioetensis, C.L.V. – Edizioni Liturgiche, Roma 2001
• P. SORCI – G. ZITO (ed.), Il Messale Gallicano di Messina: Missale secundum consuetudinem Gallicanorum et Messanensi Ecclesie della Biblioteca Agatina del Seminario di Catania (1499), Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano 2009
• G. PERESSOTTI (ed.), Missale Aquileyensis Ecclesie (1517), edizione anastatica, introduzione e appendice, Libreria Editrice Vaticana – Istituto Pio Paschini, Città del Vaticano – Udine 2007, pp. xxxvi+474

• H. A. WILSON, The Gregorian Sacramentary under Charles the Great edited from three mss. of the ninth century, riproduzione anastatica dell’edizione di London 1915, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK 2009, pp. xlv+360
• DARVRIL ANSELME (ed.), The Winchcombe Sacramentary (Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 127 [105]), Henry Bradshaw Society, London 1995
• YITZHAK HEN (ed.), The sacramentary of Echternach (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS. lat. 9433), Henry Bradshaw Society, London 1997
• N. ORCHARD (ed.), The Sacramentary of Ratoldus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052), Henry Bradshaw Society, London 2005
• T. F. KELLY, The Ordinal of Montecassino and Benevento: Breviarium sive ordo officiorum, 11th Century, Academic Press Fribourg, Fribourg 2008
• E. B. FOLEY (ed.), The First Ordinary of the Royal Abbey of St.-Denis in France (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine 526), The University Press, Fribourg 1990

• P. SAINT-ROCH (ed.), Liber Sacramentorum Engolismensis: Manuscrit B. N. Lat. 816. Le Sacramentaite Gélasien d’Angoullême, (Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina,159C), Brepols, Turnhout 1987.
  • https://archive.org/details/libersacramentor0159cath
• R.-J. HESBERT (ed.), Antiphonarum Missarum sextuplex, d’après le Graduel de Monza et les Antiphonaires de Rheineau, du Mont-Blandin, de Compiègne, de Corbie et de Senlis, Herder, Roma 1935, réimpression 1985
• C. WADDELL (ed.), The Primitive Cistercian Breviary (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. Lat. Oct. 402) with variants from the «Bernardine» Cistercian Breviary, Academic Press Fribourg 2007
• BENEDICTUS NURSIAE, La règle de Saint Benoît, SC 181 - 186, ed. Adalbert de Vogüe, Jean Neufville, 1972 – 1977, 7 vols.
• Le liber mozarabicus sacramentorum et les manuscrits mozarabes by Marius Férotin
  • https://archive.org/details/lelibermozarabic06cath

• A. HÄNGGI – A. SCHÖNHERR (ed.), Sacramentarium Rhenaugiense: Handschrift Rh 30 der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, Fribourg 1970
• F. UNTERKIRCHER (ed.), Das Kollektar-Pontifikale des Bischofs Baturich von Regensburg (817-848) (Cod. Vindob. ser. n. 2762) mit einer liturgiegeschichtlichen Untersuchung von Klaus Gamber, Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, Fribourg 1962

• FERNÁNDEZ DE LA CUESTA (ed.), El breviarium Gothicum de Silos, Monumenta Hispaniae Sacrae, Serie liturgica 8, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; Istituto Fernando Flórez, Madrid-Barcelona 1965.
  • https://archive.org/details/elbreviariumgoth00fern

• Trent: Seventh Session
  • Sacraments in General, Baptism, and Confirmation
• Trent: Twenty Fifth Session
  • Veneration of Saints and Images
• CDF Documents on Sacramental Matter
• Catechismus Catholicae Ecclesiae 1066-1209.

• Aquinas, Thomas. ST III 60-65.
• Boersma, Hans, and Matthew Levering. 2018. The Oxford handbook of sacramental theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Cortoni, Claudio Ubaldo. 2021. Christus Christi est sacramentum: una storia dei sacramenti nel Medioevo. Napoli: EDI.
• Chauvet, Louis-Marie, Madeleine Beaumont, and Patrick Madigan. 1995. Symbol and sacrament: a sacramental reinterpretation of christian existence. Collegeville (MN): The Liturgical Press.
  • Chauvet, Louis-Marie. 2008. Symbole et sacrement: une relecture sacramentelle de l'existence chrétienne. Paris: Les Ed. du Cerf.
• Chauvet, Louis-Marie, and Madeleine Beaumont. 2001. The sacraments: the Word of God at the mercy of the body. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
  • Chauvet, Louis-Marie. 2003. Les sacrements: parole de Dieu au risque du corps. Paris: Les Editions de l'atelier/Les Editions ouvrières.
• Collins, Gregory. 2010. Meeting Christ in his mysteries: a Benedictine vision of the spiritual life. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press.
• Daniélou, Jean. 2014. The Bible and the liturgy. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
  • Daniélou, J. 1958. Bible et liturgie: la théologie biblique des Sacrements et des fêtes d'après les Pères de l'Église. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf.
• Feingold, Lawrence. 2021. Touched by Christ: the sacramental economy. Steubenville: Emmaus Academic.
• Granados, José, and Michael J. Miller. 2021. Introduction to sacramental theology: signs of Christ in the flesh. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press.
• Howell, Clifford. 1977. Of sacraments and sacrifice. Minnesota: The Liturgical Press.
• Levering, Matthew, and Michael Dauphinais. 2009. Rediscovering Aquinas and the sacraments: studies in sacramental theology. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books.
• Lynch, Reginald M. 2017. The cleansing of the heart: the sacraments as instrumental causes in the Thomistic tradition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
• Miralles, Antonio. 2011. I sacramenti cristiani: trattato generale. Roma, EDUSC.
• Nutt, Roger W. 2017. General principles of sacramental theology. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
• Rocchetta, Carlo. 1999. Sacramentaria fondamentale dal “mysterion” al “sacramentum”. Bologna: EDB.
• Schillebeeckx, Edward. 2012. Christ, the sacrament of the encounter of God. London: T & T Clark.
• Van Slyke, Daniel G. “The Changing Meanings of Sacramentum: Historical Sketches.” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 11, no. 3 (2007): 245–79.
  • Good overview of the history and meaning of the word sacramentum.

• On Sacraments celebrated in Sign Language:
  • Paul VI in 1965 said sign language could be used alongside the spoken text (Notitiae 2 (1966): 30–31, n. 95)
  • Edward Peters, “Canonical and cultural developments culminating in the ordination of Deaf men during the twentieth century”, Josephinum Journal of Theology 15 (2008) 427-443.
  • Edward Peters, “The ordination of men bereft of speech and the celebration of sacraments in sign language”, Studia Canonica 42 (2008) 331-345.
  • Edward Peters, “Video communications technology and the sacramental confessions of Deaf Catholics”, The Jurist 73 (2013) 513-537.

• Trent: Thirteenth Session
  • On the Eucharist itself
• Trent: Twenty First Session
  • Communion under both species.
• Trent: Twenty Second Session
  • Sacrificial nature of the Mass
  • On the Mass
• Ecclesia De Eucharistia by JP II
• De sacra communione et de cultu mysterii eucharistici extra missam

• Adams, Marilyn McCord. 2012. Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Gilles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Bouyer, Louis. 2006. Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer . Notre Dame [Ind.]: Univ. of Notre Dame Press.
• Feingold, Lawrence. 2018. The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion. Steubenville: Emmaus Academic.
• García Ibáñez, Angel. 2008. L'Eucaristia, Dono e Mistero: Trattato Storico-Dogmatico sul Mistero Eucaristico. Roma: Università della Santa Croce.
• Hoping, Helmut. 2019. My Body given for You: History and Theology of the Eucharist. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Irwin, Kevin W. 2005. Models of the Eucharist. Mahwah: Paulist Press.
• Jasper, Ronald Claud Dudley, and G. J. Cuming. n.d. Prayers of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed. New York: Pueblo.
• Klein, Elisabeth. “Patristic Communion in the Hand: A Test Case in Reverence.” Antiphon 27, no. 2 (2023): 174–89.
• Levering, Matthew. 2005. Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist. Malden Mass: Blackwell.
• O'Connor, James T. 2005. The Hidden Manna: A Theology of the Eucharist. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• Rubin, Miri. 2004. Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Schmemann, Alexander. 1988. The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom. Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
• Schmemann, Alexander. 2018. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy. Yonkers, N. Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
• Vijgen, Jörgen. 2013. The Status of Eucharistic Accidents “sine subiecto”: A Historical Survey up to Thomas Aquinas and Selected Reactions. Berlin: Akademie-Verl.

• USCCB's Guidance on Low-Gluten Hosts and Mustum
• CDF's Guidance on Low-Gluten Hosts and Mustem (2003)
  • CDF's Guidance on Low-Gluten Hosts and Mustem (1995)
• CDW on Valid Bread and Wine (2017)
• Opinion on Sign Language Only in the Mass

• Can the Rosary be prayed during exposition? Yes.
  • Notitiae (384-385) 1998 506-511 (There is a translation in the USCCB Newsletter)
• Can the Stations of the Cross be prayer during exposition?
  • USCCB Statement
  • Opinion

• Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin der Kirche by Hermann Joseph Schmitz
  • Vol 1
  • Vol 2
  • Collection of Penitential Manuals
• Medieval Handbooks of Penance by John McNeill
• De Vera et Falsa Poenitentia by Anonymous
  • Key medieval text on penance
  • Il trattato de vera et falsa poenitentia: verso una nuova confessione: Guida alla lettura, testo e traduzione by Alessandra Costanzo

• Ordo Paenitentiae
• Reconciliatio et Paenitentia (2 December 1984)by JPII
• Penance and Reconciliation (1982) by ITC
• Trent: Fourteenth Session
  • Confession and Anointing of the Sick
• Rediscover the Rite of Penance Notitiae 2015/2
• First Penance and First Communion (31 March 1977) Letter from Congregation of Clergy
• Vademecum for Confessors concerning some aspects of the morality of the conjugal life (12 February 1997) by Pontifical Council of the Family

• Prothro, James B. 2023. The Bible and Reconciliation: Confession, Repentance, and Restoration. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.
• Rego, Juan. 2016. Celebrare la misericordia di Dio: Contributi per una mistagogia del sacramento del perdono. Roma: EDUSC.
• Speyr, Adrienne von. 2017. Confession. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
• García Ibáñez, Ángel. 2020. Conversione e riconciliazione: trattato storico-teologico sulla penitenza postbattesimale. Roma. EDUSC.
• Vogel, Cyrille. 1988. Il peccatore e la penitenza nel medioevo. Torino: Editrice Elle di Ci.

• Dubia: Can confessions be heard during Mass? Yes. (Notitiae vol 37 (2001) 419 - 420: 259–260)
• Apostolic Penitentiary on the Seal of Confession

• Ordo baptismi parvulorum

• Ferguson, Everett. 2009. Baptism in the early church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans.
• Miralles, A. Teologia liturgica dei sacramenti 2. L'iniziazione cristiana. Digital.
• Shmeman, Aleksandr. 2001. Of water and the spirit: a liturgical study of baptism. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.
• Whitaker, E. C., and Maxwell E. Johnson. 2017. Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

• Mormon Baptism:
  • https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20080201_validity-baptism-miralles_en.html
  • https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni-ladaria_en.html
  • https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni-navarrete_en.html

• Ordo initiationis christianae adultorum
• Ordo confirmationis
• Miralles, A. Teologia liturgica dei sacramenti 2. L'iniziazione cristiana. Digital.
• Zaccaria, Giovanni. 2019. “Immitte Spiritum Paraclitum”: teologia liturgica della Confermazione. Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

• Trent: Twenty Fourth
  • On Marriage
• Familiaris Consortio by JP II

• Von Hildebrand, Dietrich. 2002. Man, woman, and the meaning of love: God's plan for love, marriage, intimacy and the family. Manchester, N.H.: Sophia Institute Press.
• John Paul II. 2006. Man and woman He created them: a theology of the body. Boston: Pauline Books & Media.
• Wojtyła, Karol. 1982. Love and responsibility. London: Collins.

• Ordinatio Sacerdotalis by JP II
• Presbyterorum Ordinis by VII
• Trent: Twenty Third
  • On Holy Orders

• Sacerdozio comune, ministero e liturgia. Rivista Liturgica. 2019 106/3.
• Goyret, Philip, and Giovanni Zaccaria. 2020. Inviati per servire: il sacramento dell'ordine. Roma: EDUSC.
• Miralles, Antonio. 2002. “Pascete il gregge di Dio”: studi sul ministero ordinato. Roma: Università della Santa Croce.

• Barnett, James Monroe. 1981. The Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order. A Comprehensive and Critical Study of the Origin, Development, and Decline of the Diaconate in the Context of the Church's Total Ministry and Proposal for Renewal. Minneapolis: Seaburg Press.
• Caron, Marc B. “Sons of Levi to Servants of Christ: The Rite of Ordination Deacons from 1962 to 2021.” Antiphon 27, no. 2 (2023): 141–73.
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• Ditewig, William T. 2013. The deacon at Mass: a theological and pastoral guide. New York: Paulist Press.
• Kwatera, Michael. 2005. The liturgical ministry of deacons. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• O’Donnell, Tim. 2020. The Deacon: Icon of Christ the Servant, Minister of the Threshold. New York: Paulist Press.
• Vitali, Dario. 2019. Diaconi: che fare? Milano: San Paolo.

• Galot, Jean. 2005. Theology of the priesthood. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
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• Cunningham, Agnes. 1985. The Bishop in the Church: Patristic Texts on the Role of the Episkopos. Wilmington: Glazier.
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• Sirilla, Michael G. 2017. The ideal bishop: Aquinas's commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.

• List of Key Resources

• Butler, Sara. 2007. The Catholic Priesthood and Women: A Guide to the Teaching of the Church. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books.
• Gondreau, Paul. 2023. “Christ’s Male Sexuality and Acting In Persona Christi: A New Argument in Favor of the All-Male Priesthood.” Nova et Vetera 21 (3): 805–44.
• Macy, Gary, William T. Ditewig, and Phyllis Zagano. 2011. Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future. New York: Paulist Press.
• Madigan, Kevin, and Carolyn Osiek, eds. 2011. Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Martimort, Aime Georges. 1986. Deaconesses: An Historical Study. San Francisico: Ignatius Press.
• Schumacher, Michele M. 2021. “The Natural and Sacramental Significance of Human Sexuality and the Question of Admitting Women to the Ordained Diaconate.” The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 85 (4): 581–624. doi:10.1353/tho.2021.0035.

• Congar, Yves. 1954. Jalons Pour Une Théologie Du Laïcat 2 éd. Paris: Éditions du Cerf. 159-366

• Izbicki, Thomas M. Ministry to the Sick and Dying in the Late Medieval Church. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.

• I Sacramentali: Questioni Aperte e Nuove Prospettive. Rivista Liturgica. 2021 108/3.
• Angelo Lameri. 2010. Benedizionale. Padova: Messaggero.
• Pontificio istituto liturgico S. Anselmo (Rome). 1989. I sacramentali e le benedizioni. Anàmnesis. vol 7. Genova: Marietti.

• Ordo Dedicationis Ecclesiae et Altaris
• Calabuig, Ignazio M. 1980. The dedication of a church and an altar: a theological commentary. Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference.
• Chengalikavil, Luke. 1984. The mystery of Christ and the Church in the dedication of a Church: a historical and theological study on the Rite of dedication in the Roman liturgy. Romae.

• Ordo Consecrationis Virginum
• Augé, Matias. 2011. La liturgia della professione religiosa: dal rituale tipico ai rituali particolari. Magnano: Qiqajon.

• De institutione Lectorum et Acolythorum; De admissione inter candidatos ad Diaconatum et Presbyteratum; De sacro caelibatu amplectendo (1972)

• AA. VV., Il diavolo, Quaderni teologici n. 23, Morcelliana, Brescia 2013.
• «Cacciate i demoni». Manuale per l’uso, “Rivista liturgica” 87 (2000), n.6 (numero monografico).
• CONGREGAZIONE PER LA DOTTRINA DELLA FEDE, Fede cristiana e demonologia (26 giugno 1975), in Enchiridion Vaticanum 5, nn. 1347-1393.
• Hauke, Manfred. 2006. “The Theological Battle over the Rite of Exorcism, ‘Cinderella’ of the New ‘Rituale Romanum.’” Antiphon 10 (1): 32–69.
• International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services Doctrinal Commission. 2021. Deliverance Ministry. CHARIS.
• Lozano, Neal. 2010. Resisting the Devil: A Catholic Perspective on Deliverance. Huntington, Ind: Our Sunday Visitor
• Lozano, Neal. 2010. Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance. Grand Rapids: Chosen.
• Porteus, Julian. 2012. Manual of Minor Exorcisms: For the Use of Priests. London: Catholic Truth Society.
• Ripperger, Chad, ed. 2019. Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity. Lexington: Sensus Traditionis Press.
• Sjoquist, Bradley S. “The Virtuous Use of Private Exorcism by Laypersons.” Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 25, no. 1 (2021): 63-90. doi:10.1353/atp.2021.0003.

• AA. VV., Rito delle Esequie. Umbra Mortis Vitae Aurora, Mediagraf, Padova 2014.
• “Rivista liturgica” 99 (2012)
• Il rito delle esequie. Celebrare e vivere il mistero della morte by A. LAMERI
• La morte e i suoi riti. Per una celebrazione cristiana delle esequie by E. SAPORI
• The Death of a Christian: The Rite of Funerals by R. RUTHERFORD

• Ordo benedictionis Abbatis et Abbatissae, editio typica

• Ordo benedicendi oleum catechumenorum et infirmorum et conficiendi chrisma (1971)

• Congregatio de cultu divino et disciplina sacramentorum. 2015. Homiletic directory. Vatican City: Libreria editrice vaticana.

• Cardó, Daniel. 2021. The Art of Preaching : A Theological and Practical Primer. Washington D.C: Catholic University of America Press.

(See the section above on historical sources for editions of these works)

• De Sacramentis by St. Ambrose
• De Mysteriis by St. Ambrose
• Catecheses by St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• Mystagogiae 1-5 by St. Cyril of Jerusalem

• Ruppi, Giuseppe. Mistagogia Dei Sarcramenti: Appunti Di Teologia Liturgico-Sacramentaria. Vol. 4. Biblioteca Di Iniziazione Alla Liturgia. Edusc, 2017.
• Donghi, Antonio. 2009. Words and gestures in the liturgy. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press.
• Satterlee, Craig Alan. Ambrose of Milan’s Method of Mystagogical Preaching. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
• Boyer, Mark G. Mystagogy: Liturgical Paschal Spirituality for Lent and Easter. New York: Alba House, 1990.
• Mazza, Enrico. Mystagogy: A Theology of the Liturgy in the Patristic Age. New York: Pueblo Publishing, 1989.
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• Guillaume Durandus
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  • I: The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende: A New Translation of the Prologue and Book One by Timothy M. Thibodeau
    • See also The symbolism of churches and church ornaments: a translation of the first book of the Rationale divinorum officiorum.
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• Innocent III, De sacro altaris mysterio, PL 217
• Siccardus from Cremona, Mitrale, PL 213
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• Ordo coronandi imaginem beatae Mariae virginis: The Praenotanda “Sancta Mater Ecclesia”
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• For the Jubilee Year for Artists by JP II (18 Feb 2000)
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• Sacramentum Caritatis by Benedict XVI (22 Feb 2007) n. 41, 69

• Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie (LCI), fondato da Engelbert Kirschbaum, voll. 5–8 a cura di Wolfgang Braunfels con la collaborazione di Günter Bandmann, 8 voll., Roma / Freiburg im Breisgau 1968–1976 (edizione speciale: Freiburg im Breisgau 1990 e 1994)
• The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium, a cura di Alexander P. Kazhdan (editor in chief), Alice-Mary Talbot (executive editor), Anthony Cutler (editor for art history), Timothy E. Gregory (editor for archaelogy and historical geography) e Nancy P. Ševčenko (associate editor), 3 volumi, New York / Oxford 1991
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  • Vol III-I: Saints A-F
  • Vol III-II: Saints G-O
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• Verdon, Timothy. 2003. L'arte sacra in Italia: l'immaginazione religiosa dal paleocristiano al postmoderno. Milano: Mondadori.
• Hourihane, Colum. 2003. Objects, images, and the word: art in the service of the liturgy. Princeton, NJ: Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press.
• Verdon, Timothy: L’arte cristiana in Italia
  • vol. 1: Origini e Medioevo, Cinisello Balsamo 2005
  • vol. 2: Rinascimento, Cinisello Balsamo 2006
  • vol. 3: Età moderna e contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo 2008
• Heid, Stefan. 2013. La preghiera dei primi cristiani. Magnano (Bi): Edizioni Qiqajon, Comunità di Bose.
• Bogdanović, Jelena. 2018. Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Routledge.
• Wiśniewski, Robert. 2019. The beginnings of the cult of relics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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• Nees, Lawrence. 2023. Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Debuyst, Frédéric. 2003. Chiese: arte, architettura, liturgia : dal 1920 al 2000. Cinisello Balsamo (MI): Silvana editoriale.
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• Gatti, Vincenzo. 2005. Liturgia e arte: i luoghi della celebrazione. Bologna: EDB.
• Gerstel, Sharon E. J., and Robert S. Nelson. 2011. Approaching the Holy Mountain: art and liturgy at St Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai. Turnhout: Brepols.
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• McKitterick, Rosamond, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson, and Joanna Story. 2013. Old Saint Peter's, Rome. New York: Cambridge Univesity Press.
• Muroni, Pietro Angelo. 2014. Il mistero di Cristo nel tempo e nello spazio: la celebrazione cristiana. Roma: Urbaniana University Press.
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• Tagliaferri, Roberto. 2011. Saggi di architettura e di iconografia dello spazio sacro. Padova: Messaggero.

• Adams, Edward. 2016. The earliest Christian meeting places: almost exclusively houses? New York: T & T Clark.
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• Doig, Allan. 2018. Liturgy and architecture from the early church to the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
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• Krautheimer, Richard, and Slobodan Ćurčić. 1992. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture.

• Bogdanovic, Jelena. 2017. The framing of sacred space: the canopy and the Byzantine Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Loosley, Emma. 2012. The architecture and liturgy of the 'bema' in fourth- to sixth-century Syrian churches. Leiden: Brill.
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• Drouin, Gilles, and Jean-Marie Duthilleul. 2019. Architecture et liturgie au XVIIIe siècle: offrir avec et pour le peuple. Paris : Les Éditions du Cerf.
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• Braun, Joseph. 1924. Der christliche Altar in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung. 2 vol. München.
• Braun, Joseph. 1932. Das christliche Altargerät in seinem Sein und in seiner Entwicklung. Hildesheim: Olms.
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• English

• Miller, Maureen C. 2014. Clothing the clergy: virtue and power in medieval Europe, c. 800-1200. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• West, Krista M. 2013. The garments of salvation: Orthodox Christian liturgical vesture. Yonkers: St. Vladimir's Seminary.
• Woodfin, Warren T. 2012. The Embodied icon: liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Ernest, Matthew. 2010. The mitre and crozier in the post-Conciliar liturgy in light of a renewed theology of the episcopacy: a diachronic and contextual analysis. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America.
• Paci, Sara Piccolo. 2008. Storia delle vesti liturgiche: Forma, imagine e funzione. Milan: Ancora.
  • Amazing bibliography
• Johnstone, Pauline. 2002. High fashion in the church: the place of church vestments in the history of art from the ninth to the nineteenth century. Leeds: Maney Publishing.
  • https://archive.org/details/highfashioninchu0000john
• Mayer-Thurman, Christa C., John Maxon, Aidan Kavanagh, Donald L. Garfield, and Horace T. Allen. 1975. Raiment for the Lord's service: a thousand years of Western vestments. Chicago: Art Institute.
• Norris, Herbert. 1949. Church Vestments: their origin & development. London: Pl. XVI. J.M. Dent & Sons.
  • Lacks sufficient citations, opinionative, many eclectic insertions
• James, Raymund. 1935. The Origin and Development of Roman Liturgical Vestments. Exeter: The Catholic Records Press.
• Roulin, E. A. 1931. Vestments and vesture: a manual of liturgical art. Westminster, Md: Newman Press
  • Quite opinionative, and less academic. He has some useful rhetorical arguments, but he is at time culturally dated.
• Braun, Josef. 1924. Die liturgischen Paramente in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit: ein Handbuch der Paramentik. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
  • Digital Scan and OCR
• Braun, Joseph. 1914. I paramenti sacri: loro uso, storia e simbolismo. Torino: P. Marietti.
  • Braun, Joseph. 1912. Handbuch der Paramentik. Mit 150 Abbildungen. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder

• The Priestly Vestments by Macdonald, Nathan
  • Clothing and Nudity in the Hebrew Bible p 435-448. London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2019
• A roadmap to heaven: High-priestly vestments and the Jerusalem Temple in Flavius Josephus by Weissenrieder, Annette
  • Beyond Priesthood: Religious entrepreneurs and innovators in the Roman Empire, Walter de Gruyter, 2017, p 157-183

• The Vestments of the Roman Rite by Adrian Fortescue
  • A paper read at the annual meeting of the Westminster Cathedral Altar Society, Cardinal Bourne presiding, Feb. 8, 1912
• The Dress of Liturgy I-X by Raymund James
  • Orate Fratres, 10 no 1 Nov 30 1935 - Orate Fratres, 12 no 12 Oct 30 1938
• Glodt, Julie. 2020. “Putting on Christ: The Priest’s Clothing and Its Metaphors at the End of the Middle Ages (1250-1500).” Religion and the Arts 24 (5): 491–516.
• Bodin, Ariane. “The Outward Appearance of Clerics in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries in Italy, Gaul and Africa: Representation and Reality.” In Studia Patristica, 493–501. Leuven, 2013.
• Bates, J. Barrington. “Am I Blue? Some Historical Evidence for Liturgical Colors.” Studia Liturgica 33, no. 1 (March 2003): 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/003932070303300106.
• Hayward, Jane. “Sacred Vestments as They Developed in the Middle Ages.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29, no. 7 (1971): 299–309. https://doi.org/10.2307/3258646.

• Pierce, Joanne M. 1996. “Early Medieval Vesting Prayers in the Ordo Missae of Sigbert of Minden (1022-1036).” In Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith: Essays in Honor of Aidan Kavanagh, OSB, 80–105. Collegeville, Minn.
• Khs-Burmester, O H E. (Oswald Hugh Ewart). 1935. “Vesting Prayers and Ceremonies of the Coptic Church.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 1 (3–4): 305–14.

The farthers in particular are interesting for their mystigogical teaching.

• St. Ambrose
• St. Cyril of Jerusalem
• St. Isidore
  • De ecclesiasticis officiis (CPL-1207)
    • CCSL CXIII (113)
    • PL 81: 15, 83: 737
• Fourth Council of Toledo

• Amalarius of Metz
  • Much of our interpretation of liturgical symbols start with him. He was a bit exaggerated.
  • Key Work: Liber officialis
  • De ecclesiasticis officiis PL 105
  • Amalarii episcopi Opera liturgica omnia, 3 vols by J. M. Hanssens (Vatican City: Vatican Apostolic Library, 1948–50)
    • Vol 1
• Peter the Chanter
  • Important for confession
• Thomas Aquinas
• Guillaume Durand
  • Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

• Prosper Guéranger
  • Founder of Solemne
  • Prosper Gueranger (1805-1875) : a liturgical theologian : an introduction to his liturgical writings and work by Cuthbert Johnson
  • The liturgical year
  • The Holy Mass
• Louis Duchesne
  • Important Historian
• Romano Guardini
  • Opere di Romano Guardini Series published by Morcelliana
  • Guardini, Romano, and Heinz R. Kuehn. 1997. The essential Guardini: an anthology of the writings of Romano Guardini. Chicago, IL: Liturgy Training Publications.
• Cipriano Vagaggini
• Columba Marmion
  • Was the novice master of Beauduin
• Lambert Beauduin
• Odo Casel
  • Reintroduced the language of Mystery
• Jean Danielou
• Louis Bouyer
  • Important theologian
  • Best interpreter of Odo Casel
• J.A. Jungmann
  • Great historian and researcher in how liturgical rites developed.
• B. Neunheuser
  • Researcher of the historical cultural and social relationship with the development of the liturgical rites.
• Virgil Michael
• Clifford Howell

• Alexander Schmemann
  • Orthodox priest, liturgical theologian.
• R. Taft
  • Researcher in ecumenical liturgical studies and comparative study between the various rites.
• Joseph Ratzinger
• Alcuin Reid
• Jordi Pinell
  • Western Non Roman Liturgies
• Archille Maria Triacca
• Manlio Sodi
• Ángel García Ibáñez
• Angelo Lameri
• Antonio Miralles