The Liturgical 12 months: Creation, Christmas, Epiphany (vol. 1) (Quantity 1)

When Adrien Nocent’s The Liturgical 12 months was revealed within the Nineteen Seventies, it was the very first complete commentary on the three-year lectionary in relation to the Sacramentary/Missal as these had been revised following the Second Vatican Council. Expressed on almost each web page was Nocent’s conviction that the liturgy and the Phrase of God proclaimed inside it have one thing necessary to say to actual individuals of each tradition and time. He continually returns to the query: What does this passage should say to us as we speak?

Now this extraordinary work of utilized, postconciliar liturgical scholarship has been emended and annotated by certainly one of as we speak’s main liturgical students. Paul Turner has offered many beneficial explanatory notes on historical past, tradition, language, and, after all, liturgy. He has additionally up to date the liturgical texts to evolve to The Roman Missal, Third Version. The result’s a useful resource that guarantees to counterpoint and encourage a brand new technology of presiders, preachers, liturgy planners, and college students.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium, encounter the colourful scholarship and pastoral knowledge of Adrien Nocent’s The Liturgical 12 months once more or for the primary time!

Quantity 1 covers the liturgical seasons of Creation, Christmas, and Epiphany.