The Liturgical Year: Volume XI - Time After Pentecost - Book Two

The Liturgical Year #11

by Prosper Guéranger, Peter Holm (Editor), Eric Hamric (Editor)

The Liturgical Year is an essential addition to the library of any historian. It is a detailed written work, spanning 15 volumes, describing the depth and beauty of the liturgical year of the Catholic Church. The series was written by Dom Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger, a French Benedictine priest and abbot of Solesmes, starting in 1841. In 1875, after writing nine volumes, Dom Guéranger, passed away. The remaining volumes of the series were later completed by another Benedictine monk under Dom Guéranger's name.

This eye-opening series highlights the full span of the intricate and meaningful history of the Catholic Church for all to see. It details the traditions, celebrations, and liturgical practices of faithful Catholics throughout the liturgical year as they commemorate the life of Christ and His followers. Guéranger lays significant emphasis on the historical development of the liturgy in both Western and Eastern traditions, across multiple rites of the Mass. And he details how the Catholic tradition differs from the later Protestant traditions, established after 1517. Contained within the depths of Guéranger’s writings are the significances of each liturgical season, the holy days, and biographies of the saints with portions of the liturgies recited on their feast days.

This is a must-have for any Christian historian or apologist who wishes to understand the foundation of European culture and the later years of Christendom.

In this book you will get detailed writings on:
- The History of the Time after Pentecost
- The Mystery of the Time after Pentecost
- The Practice during the Time after Pentecost
- The Proper of the Time (Time after Pentecost)

308 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2019

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. 😟