Paul Turner is pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri and director of the Office of Divine Worship for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.He is a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a member of Societas Liturgica and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. His publications include One Love: A Pastoral Guide to the Order of Celebrating Matrimony, Inseparable Love: A Commentary on The Order of Celebrating Matrimony in the Catholic Church, Glory in the Cross: Holy Week in the Third Edition of The Roman Missal, Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass, and Whose Mass Is It? Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy, all published by Liturgical Press. He is also a contributor to Give Us This Day.
This book is packed with information and deserves to be read more
than once, perhaps every year. It is the most up to date,
comprehensive, and perceptive treatment of Holy Week between two
covers.Patrick Regan, OSB, Worship
Glory in the Cross is a splendid book. This book deserves a wide
readership: liturgists, music directors, liturgy committees,
priests, deacons, and all who have a substantial role in preparing
some of the most beautiful liturgies during the liturgical
year.Pastoral Liturgy
As always, Paul Turner has presented us with a book that
demonstrates great breadth and depth of research and scholarship.
Glory in the Cross is a text that will be wonderfully useful to
pastoral ministers in both parish and diocesan liturgical and
catechetical ministry. It will even serve well as one of the texts
for use in teaching the Liturgical Year in seminaries and in
diaconate formation, as well as in undergraduate and graduate
liturgical programs.Stephen F. Obarski, Director, Office Of Worship
and Christian Initiation, Diocese of Camden
Paul Turner helps us to ‘get it right’ during Holy Week. But he
also does so much more: he comments on the prayer texts of Masses
for this special week, offers a theological interpretation of the
shape of the rites, situates texts in their historical context,
provides pastoral explanation drawing from his own vast experience
as pastor and teacher, and takes seriously the reality that there
are many different types of liturgical communities and that
legitimate adaptations can and must be made to meet their needs.
Sometimes this book reads like Pius Parsch’s The Church’s Year of
Grace. Sometimes it reads like the General Instruction for the
Roman Missal. Sometimes it reads like Jungmann’s The Mass of the
Roman Rite. Always it reads with utmost honesty, insight, common
sense, thoroughness, and grace. Who would want to celebrate Holy
Week in all its fullness without this book at hand?Joyce Ann
Zimmerman, C.PP.S., Director, Institute for Liturgical Min
This book deserves a wide readership: liturgists, music directors,
liturgy committees, priests, deacons, and all who have a
substantial role in preparing some of the most beautiful liturgies
during the liturgical year. Of course, it would be hard to imagine
this work not becoming required reading in seminaries and schools
of theology training future leaders of liturgy for parish life.
Pastoral Liturgy
Known for his ability in guiding priests, liturgists, catechists,
and the faithful to a deeper love for liturgy and its rites, Father
Paul Turner, a presbyter of the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint
Joseph, has again provided another outstanding resource, this time
for Holy Week. . . . Turner adheres to his "no nonsense approach"
of clearly presenting the Roman Missal, and he captures its noble
simplicity quite well. . . . Before preparing for Holy Week, buy,
read, and share this book with your liturgy team. You will enjoy
this treasure that graciously unpacks the sacred mysteries of these
liturgies of Holy Week.
Father John Thomas Lane, SSS, Saint Paschal Baylon Church, Highland
Heights, Ohio, Emmanuel
Before preparing for Holy Week, buy, read, and share this book with
your liturgy team. You will enjoy this treasure that graciously
unpacks the sacred mysteries of these liturgies of Holy Week.
Fr. John Thomas Lane, SSS, Emmanuel: Eucharistic Spirituality
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