The Liturgical Year A Commentary in Seven Volumes: 1. Advent, Christmas, Epiphany 2. Lent 3. Easter and the Easter Season 4. Ordinary Time, Year A 5. Ordinary ...

In graduate theology programs across the United States and elsewhere, Maxwell Johnson's  The Rites of Christian Initiation: Their Evolution and ...

A Pope Francis Lexicon is a collection of over fifty essays by an impressive set of insightful contributors from around the globe, each writing on a ...

Can Christian worship engage our secular culture? Should it? While engaging thinkers in philosophy, history, religious anthropology, and liturgical theology ...

Keeping in mind two pastoral considerations - the liturgy itself and the assembly that worships - Father Kavanagh looks not beyond rubrics but deep into ...

According to Thomas Aquinas, the Eucharist is meant to build up the unity of the church. This desired ecclesial unity is, however, not often given adequate ...

Worship is at the heart of the Christian faith. This applies equally to all denominations. For that reason it is all the more important that the ordering ...

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical ...

Love came more naturally to Bernard of Clairvaux than did humility. The son of burgundian nobility, 'people of rank and dignity', Bernard attracted followers ...

In 1090 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of the Cistercian order, was born. One of the great figures of his age, he travelled and preached widely; Cistercian ...