The Liturgical Year Vol 11: Time After Pentecost - Book 2

The Liturgical Year #11

by Prosper Guéranger

This is the 11th volume of the 15-volume series in this set. All these books have sewn pages, printed with real ink, and have a durable hardback binding. Volume 11 is Book 2 in the Time After Pentecost. This volume covers the 4th Sunday After Pentecost up to the 24th Sunday & Last Sunday. The 3rd Sunday After Epiphany up to the 6th Sunday after Epiphany are also included since they are added to make up the year if they are not celebrated during the time after Epiphany. Product 7033; $18

511 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Dom Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger, Servant of God, was a Benedictine priest, abbot of Solesmes Abbey (which he founded in the disused priory of Solesmes) and founder of the French Benedictine Congregation (now the Solesmes Congregation). Dom Guéranger was the author of The Liturgical Year, which covers every day of the Catholic Church's Liturgical Cycle in 15 volumes. He was well regarded by Pope Pius IX, and was a proponent of the dogmas of papal infallibility and the Immaculate Conception. Dom Guéranger is credited with reviving the Benedictine Order in France, and revitalizing the Tridentine Mass.

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Reviews

[booklady · Rating 4 out of 5]

August 20, 2023: Moving to Reference shelf as I have not read this consistently and do not want to count this against my total books read in 2023, though what I have read was amazing!

Although I cannot follow the Sunday liturgical readings in these, I love the opening explanations of each season. Even this 'Time after Pentecost' as it is called here, is given its own mystery and grace, where Christ is 'formed in us'. Here the object which holy Church has in view for the liturgical year is to lead the Christian soul to union with Christ and this by the Holy Ghost (Spirit).

'To this end is directed all the that aggregate of rites and prayers which we have hitherto explained: they are not a mere commemoration of the mysteries achieved for our salvation by the divine goodness, but they bring with them the graces corresponding to each of those mysteries; that thus we may come, as the Apostle expresses it, to the age of the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13) ... As we have elsewhere explained, our sharing in the mysteries of Christ, which are celebrated in the Liturgical Year, produces in the Christian what is called, in Mystic Theology, the Illuminative Life, in which the soul gains continually more and more of the light of the Incarnate Word, who, by his examples and teachings, renovates each one of her faculties, and imparts to her the habit of seeing all things from God’s point of view. This is a preparation which disposes her for union with God, not merely in an imperfect manner, and one that is more or less inconstant, but in an intimate and permanent way, which is called the Unitive Life.'

Have you EVER heard THAT about Ordinary Time? Me either. 😟