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Liturgical Books

Theology Lists

Online Resources

Journals

General

Liturgical Movement and 20th Century

  • Bouyer, Louis. 1955. Liturgical Piety. Notre Dame: University Press.
  • 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.

Contemporary Works

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.

Magisterial

General Documents

Reference Collections

  • 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

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • 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

References and Manuals

  • 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

Collections of Historical Sources

  • 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)

Bibliography Sources

  • 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

Book Series

Roman Missal

General

  • 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.

General Instruction

  • 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.

Collects

  • 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.

Prefaces

  • 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.

Ordinary

  • 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.

Eucharistic Prayers

  • 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.

Lectionary

General

  • 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.

Magisterium

Commentary

The Liturgy of the Hours

Dubia and Clarifications

General

  • 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.

Hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours

  • 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.

Liturgical Year

General

  • 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.

Magisterium

Holy Week

  • 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.

Music

Magisterial

General

  • 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.

History

  • 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.

Spirituality

  • 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.

Non Roman Western Liturgies

General

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

English Isle Liturgies

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

Hispanic Liturgy

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

Eastern Liturgies

Magisterium

General

  • 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.

History

  • 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.

Liturgical Year

  • 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.

History

General

  • 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.

The Mass

  • 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.

Liturgy of the Hours

  • 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.

Early Church

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

  • Baumstark, Anton. 1958. Comparative liturgy . Westminster: Newman Press.
  • 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.

Vatican II and the Liturgical Movement

  • 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.

Historical Sources

Early Church

Early Sacramentaries

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)

Ordines Romani

Pontifical

  • Roman-Germanic (PRG)
  • 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)
  • 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

Ceremonial of Bishops

  • OR XI
  • OR XIII
  • OR XV
    • First proper Ceremonial
    • 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

Missals

Ritual

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

Other Critical Editions

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/

Italiano

  • 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

Inglese

  • 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

Francese

  • 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.
  • 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

Tedesco

  • 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

Spagnolo

  • 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.

Sacraments

Magisterium

General

  • 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.

Eucharist

Magisterium

General

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Vijgen, Jörgen. 2013. The Status of Eucharistic Accidents “sine subiecto”: a historical survey up to Thomas Aquinas and selected reactions. Berlin: Akademie-Verl.

Particular Questions

Holy Communion and Worship of the Eucharistic Mystery Outside Mass

Confession

Historical Sources

  • Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin der Kirche by Hermann Joseph Schmitz
  • 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

Magisterium

General

  • 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.

Particular Questions

Baptism

  • 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.

Confirmation

  • 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.

Marriage

Magisterial

General

  • 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.

Holy Orders

Magisterial

General

  • 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.

Diaconate

  • 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.
  • 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.

Priesthood

  • Galot, Jean. 2005. Theology of the priesthood. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
  • Giambrone, Anthony. 2022. The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.
  • Levering, Matthew. 2004. On the priesthood: classic and contemporary texts. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Mohler, James A. 1970. The origin and evolution of the priesthood: a return to the sources. Staten Island, NY: Alba House.
  • Nichols, Aidan. 1990. Holy Order: the Apostolic ministry from the New Testament to the Second Vatican Council. Dublin: Veritas Publications.

Episcopacy

  • Cunningham, Agnes. 1985. The Bishop in the Church: Patristic Texts on the Role of the Episkopos. Wilmington: Glazier.
  • Dolan, George Edward. 1950. The distinction between the episcopate and the presbyterate according to the Thomistic opinion a dissertation. Washington: The Catholic Univ. of America Pr.
  • Fraser, John. 1893. Episcopacy: historically, doctrinally, and legally considered. London: J. Clarke.
  • Hebert, A. G. 1963. Apostle and bishop: a study of the Gospel, the ministry and the church-community. New York: Seabury Press.
  • Ruppi, Cosmo Francesco. 2001. Vescovo, chi sei tu? Roma: Vivere in.
  • Sirilla, Michael G. 2017. The ideal bishop: Aquinas's commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.

Married Priests

Women and Holy Orders

  • 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.

Common Priesthood

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

Anointing

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

Sacramentals

General

  • 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.

Blessings of Churches and Altars

  • 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.

Consecration of Virgins

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

Institution of Lectors, Acolytes, and Candidates to Holy Orders

Exorcisms

  • 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).
  • 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.

Funerals

  • 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

Blessing of Abbot and Abbesses

Blessing of Oils

Homiletics and Preaching

Magisterial

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

General

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

Mystagogy

Patristic Sources

(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

General

  • 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.

Liturgical Symbols

General

Historical Symbolic Interpretors

  • Guillaume Durandus
    • Guillelmi Duranti Rationale divinorum officiorum. CCCM 140 (I-IV), 140A (V-VI), 140B (VII-VIII)
    • 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.
    • II-III: On the Clergy and Their Vestments A New Translation of Books 2-3 of the Rationale divinorum officiorum by Timothy M. Thibodeau
    • IV: Rationale IV: On the Mass and Each Action Pertaining to it by Timothy M. Thibodeau
    • V: Rationale V: Commentary on the Divine Office by Timothy M. Thibodeau
  • Amalarius of Metz, De ecclesiasticis officiis PL 105
  • Innocent III, De sacro altaris mysterio, PL 217
  • Siccardus from Cremona, Mitrale, PL 213
  • Charles Borromeo, Instructiones fabricae et supellectilis ecclesiasticae, LEV 2002

References

  • Enciclopedia dell’Arte Medievale, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 1997.
  • A. VENTURI, SISSON, J. D., Storia dell’Arte italiana, 3 vol., U. Hoepli, Milano 1904.
  • F. CABROL, H. LECLERCQ, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, 15 vol., Librairie Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1907-1953.
  • J. BASCHET, L'iconographie médiévale, Gallimard, Paris 2008.
  • F. BISCONTI (a cura di), Temi di iconografia paleocristiana, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Città del Vaticano 2000.
  • J. CHEVALIER – A. GHEERBRANT, Dizionario dei simboli: miti, sogni, costumi, gesti, forme, figure, colori, numeri, Rizzoli, Milano 1987.
  • A. FITZGERALD, Imagery and imagination in Biblical literature: essays in honor of Aloysius Fitzgerald F.S.C, Catholic Biblical Association of America, Washington (DC) 2001.
  • S. GERSTEL, Beholding the sacred mysteries. Programs of the Byzantine sanctuary, College Art Association, University of Washington Press, Seattle, London 1999.
  • P. MURRAY, L. MURRAY, The Oxford dictionary of Christian art & architecture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014.
  • P. PIVA, L'arte medievale nel contesto, 300-1300: funzioni, iconografia, tecniche, Jaca book, Milano 2006.
  • L. RÉAU, Iconografia del arte cristiano, Serbal, Barcelona 2008.
  • L. RYKEN, J.C. WILHOIT, T. LONGMAN (a cura di), Le immagini bibliche: simboli, figure retoriche e temi letterari della Bibbia, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo 2006.

Liturgical Art and Architecture

Magisterial

References

  • 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
  • Murray, Peter / Murray, Linda: The Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture, Oxford 1996 (id., The Oxford dictionary of Christian art and architecture, 2. edizione riveduta [paperback!], a cura di Tom Devonshire Jones, Oxford 2014)
  • Grasso, Giacomo (a cura): Chiesa e Arte. Documenti della Chiesa, testi canonici e commenti, Cinisello Balsamo 2001
  • Iconografia e arte cristiana, diretto da Liana Castelfranchi e Maria Antonietta Crippa, a cura di Roberto Cassanelli e Elio Guerriero, 2 volumi, Cinisello Balsamo 2004
  • Giorgi, Rosa: Simboli, protagonisti e storia della chiesa (collana “I dizionari dell’arte”), Milano 2004 (in particolare capp. 1−2: oggetti e arredi liturgici, paramenti
  • Réau, Louis: Iconographie de l’Art Chrétien, 3 voll. in 6, Paris 1955–1959 (ristampa: Millwood / New York 1988)
    • 12 Volumes
  • Baschet, Jérôme. 2008. L' iconographie médiévale. [Paris]: Gallimard.
  • Hoeps, Reinhard. 2007. Handbuch der Bildtheologie. Paderborn: F. Schöningh.
  • Pettegrew, David K., William R. Caraher, and Thomas W. Davis. 2022. The Oxford handbook of Early Christian archaeology. New York: Offord University Press.

General (Art)

  • Belting, Hans. 2020. Bild und Kult eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. München: Verlag C.H. Bec.
    • Belting, Hans, and Frank Muller. 2007. Image et culte: une histoire de l'image avant l'époque de l'art. Paris: Editions du Cerf.
    • Belting, Hans, and Barnaba Maj. 1990. Il culto delle immagini: storia dell'icona dall'età imperiale al tardo Medioevo. [S.l.]: Carocci.
  • Belting, Hans. 2019. Das echte Bild: Bildfragen als Glaubensfragen. München: Beck.
    • Belting, Hans. 2009. La vera immagine di Cristo. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri.
  • Bœspflug, François. 2011. Dieu et ses images: une histoire de l'éternel dans l'art. Paris: Bayard - Centurion Editions.
    • Boespflug, François, and Chiara Bongiovanni. 2012. Le immagini di Dio: una storia dell'Eterno nell'arte. Torino: G. Einaudi.
  • Convegno liturgico internazionale, François Boespflug, and Goffredo Boselli. 2021. Liturgia e arte: la sfida della contemporaneità : atti dell'VIII Convegno liturgico internazionale, Bose, 3-5 giugno 2010. Magnano (Biella): Qiqajon.
  • Borobio, Dionisio. 2008. La dimensión estética de la liturgia arte sagrado y espacios para la celebración. Barcelona: Centre de Pastoral Litúrgica.
  • Evdokimov, Paul, and Giuseppe. 2017. Teologia della bellezza: l'arte dell'icona. Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo.
  • Cattaneo, Enrico. 1982. Arte e liturgia dalle origini al Vaticano II. Milano: Vita e pensiero.
  • Quenot, Michel. 2008. Du visible à l'invisible: des images à l'icône. Paris: Editions du Cerf.
  • Rego, Juan. “I messali e le immagini: riflessioni e prospettive.” Rivista liturgica 104 (2017) 121-131.
  • Santi, Giancarlo. 1993. Arte e liturgia: l'arte sacra a trent'anni dal concilio. Cinisello Balsamo: Ed. San Paolo.
  • Schmidt, Heinrich, and Margarethe Schmidt. 1988. Il linguaggio delle immagini: iconografia cristiana. Roma: Città nuova editrice.
  • Sinding-Larsen, Staale. 1984. Iconography and ritual: a study of analytical perspectives. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
  • Terrin, Aldo Natale, and Roberto Tagliaferri. 2009. Liturgia e immagine. Padova: Messaggero.
  • Besançon, Alain, Marco Rizzi, and Silvia Moroni. 2009. L'immagine proibita: una storia intellettuale dell'iconoclastia.
  • Kitzinger, Ernst. 1954. The cult of images in the age before iconoclasm. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks.
  • Tristan, Frédérick. 1996. Les premières images chrétiennes: du symbole à l'icône: IIe - VIe siècle. [Paris]: Fayard.
  • Braun, Joseph. 1964. Die liturgische Gewandung im Occident und Orient: nach Ursprung und Entwicklung, Verwendung und Symbolik. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • Chenis, Carlo. 1991. Fondamenti teorici dell’arte sacra. Magistero postconciliare. Roma.
  • Plazaola, Juan. 2010. Historia y sentido del arte cristiano. Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos.
    • Plazaola, Juan, and Maria Antonietta Crippa. 2002. Arte cristiana nel tempo: storia e significato. Cinisello Balsamo (MI): San Paolo.
  • 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.
  • Bühren, Ralf van. 2023. Arte e Chiesa nei secoli XX e XXI: Il significato permanente del Concilio Vaticano II. Brescia.

General (Architecture)

  • Debuyst, Frédéric. 2003. Chiese: arte, architettura, liturgia : dal 1920 al 2000. Cinisello Balsamo (MI): Silvana editoriale.
  • Duthilleul, Jean-Marie. 2015. Espace et liturgie: aménager les églises. Paris: Mame-Desclée.
  • Elberti, Arturo, and Lucia Valdarnini. 2015. Arte e architettura sacra in Occidente: storia e fondamenti. Napoli: Chirico.
  • 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.
  • Gittos, Helen. 2015. Liturgy, architecture, and sacred places in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Godoy Fernández, Cristina. 1995. Arqueología y liturgia, iglesias hispánicas: (siglos IV al VIII). Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona.
  • Johnson, Mark Joseph. 2018. The Roman imperial mausoleum in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kieckhefer, Richard. 2008. Theology in stone: church architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • López Arias, Fernando. 2018. Proyectar el espacio sagrado: qué es y cómo se construye una iglesia. Pamplona: EUNSA.
  • 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.
  • Schloeder, Steven J. 1998. Architecture in communion: implementing the Second Vatican Council through liturgy and architecture. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.
  • Tagliaferri, Roberto. 2011. Saggi di architettura e di iconografia dello spazio sacro. Padova: Messaggero.

Early Church Architecture

  • Adams, Edward. 2016. The earliest Christian meeting places: almost exclusively houses? New York: T & T Clark.
  • Brandenburg, Hugo, and Arnaldo Vescovo. 2005. Ancient churches of Rome: from the fourth to the seventh century; the dawn of Christian architecture in the west. Turnhout: Brepols.
  • Brandt, Olle. 2012. Battisteri oltre la pianta: gli alzati di nove battisteri paleocristiani in Italia. Città del Vaticano: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana.
  • Brandt, Olof. 2016. La Croce e il capitello: le chiese paleocristiane e la monumentalità. Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana.
  • Chavarría Arnau, Alexandra. 2018. Archeologia delle chiese: dalle origini all'anno Mille. Roma: Carocci.
  • Doig, Allan. 2018. Liturgy and architecture from the early church to the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Johnson, Mark J. 2018. San Vitale in Ravenna and octogonal churches in Late Antiquity. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
  • Krautheimer, Richard, and Slobodan Ćurčić. 1992. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture.

Byzantine and Eastern 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.
  • Marinis, Vasileios. 2014. Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople ninth to fifteenth centuries. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.
  • Patricios, Nicholas N. 2014. The sacred architecture of Byzantium: art, liturgy and symbolism in early christian churches. London: I.B. Tauris.

Medieval Architecture

  • Drouin, Gilles, and Jean-Marie Duthilleul. 2019. Architecture et liturgie au XVIIIe siècle: offrir avec et pour le peuple. Paris : Les Éditions du Cerf.
  • * Lucherini, Vinni, and Gerardo Boto Varela. 2020. La cattedrale nella città medievale i rituali. Roma: Viella.
  • McClendon, Charles B. 2005. The origins of medieval architecture: building in Europe, A.D 600-900. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Thunø, Erik. 2015. The apse mosaic in early medieval Rome: time, network, and repetition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

The Altar

  • 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.
  • Heid, Stefan. 2023. Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.
    • Orginal: Heid, Stefan. 2019. Altar und Kirche: Prinzipien christlicher Liturgie. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner.
  • Nussbaum, Otto. 1965. Der Standort des Liturgen am christlichen Altar vor dem Jahre 1000: eine archäologische und liturgiegeschichtliche Untersuchung. 2 vol.

Vestments

Magisterium

  • PAULUS VI, Lett. apost. Motu proprio Pontificalia insignia, 21-VI-1968, Acta Apostolica Sedis 60 (1968) 374-377.

General

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Biblical

Articles

  • 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.

Prayers

  • 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.

Liturgical Gestures

Import Thinkers

Church Fathers

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

Medievals

  • 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)
  • Peter the Chanter
    • Important for confession
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Guillaume Durand
    • Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

Liturgical Movement and Vatican II

  • 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

Post Vatican II and Contemporary

  • 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
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