1. General Principles Concerning Ceremonies
2. The Holy Sacrifice
3. Pontifical Solemn Mass
4. Evening Services
5. The Liturgical year
6. Occasional Functions
7. Funerals
8. Ceremonies of the Ritual in the USA
In this fifteenth edition, this volume is an important, revised and updated ceremonial manual, published to guide and assist in celebrating the tradition liturgy today.
Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923), priest, polyglot and renowned
scholar, wrote the first edition of The Ceremonies of the Roman
Rite Described during the First World War and later revised it for
a second edition.
The rubricist Canon J.B. O’Connell (d. 1977), carefully
oversaw the production of the third to the twelfth editions, up to
the eve of the Second Vatican Council.
Dom Alcuin Reid is a monk of the Monastère Saint-Benoît in
the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, and a renowned liturgical
scholar whose seminal work The Organic Development of the Liturgy
was commended by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. He has edited the last
three editions of this classical guide to the usus antiquior of the
Roman rite.
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