General Studies

THE ANTIMENSION IN THE LITURGICAL AND CANONICAL TRADITION OF THE BYZANTINE AND LATIN CHURCHES, by Rev. Archimandrite J.M. Izzo The definitive work on this subject. 358pp $30.00 Paper (Our Lady of Grace Italo-Greek Society) Out of Print

BEYOND EAST AND WEST: PROBLEMS IN LITURGICAL UNDERSTANDING, by Robert Taft Explores the Byzantine eucharistic liturgy - its beauty, mystery and apparent total lack of logic. This work uncovers the roots of liturgy in Eastern and Western Christianity from historical, theological and practical points of view. $25.00 Paper (Edizioni Oriental Institute)

THE BIBLE AND THE LITURGY, by Jean Danielou No serious student of the Liturgy will want to miss the depths of meaning conveyed by the sacramental signs which this book reveals. 372pp $20.00 Cloth (Notre Dame)

THE BIBLE IN THE LITURGY, by Archpriest Constnatiner This book captures the source of the Divine Liturgy, the Bible. A reservoir of Biblical references for each petition and prayer in the Divine Liturgy. The prayers of the liturgy are listed side by side with the complete Scriptureal verses for each item. $15.00 Spiralbound

CELIBACY IN THE EARLY CHURCH: THE BEGINNINGS OF OLIGATORY CONTINENCE FOR CLERICS IN EAST AND WEST, Heid presnts a penetrating and wide ranging study of the historical data from the early Church on the topics of celibacy and clerical continence. He gives a brief review of recent literature, and then begins his study with the New Testament and follows it all the way to Justinian and the Council of Trullo in 690 in the East and the fifth century popes in the West. He thoroughly examines the writings of the Bible, the early church councils, saints and theologians like Jerome, Augustine, Clement, Tertullian, John Chrysostom, Cyril and Gregory Nazianzen. 375pp $20.00 Paper (Ignatius)

COMMENTARY ON THE DIVINE LITURGY, Nicholas Cabasilas; translated by J.M. Hussey and P.A. McNulty This book has long been essential reading for specialists in the fields of comparative liturgy and history of liturgy, since Cabasilas comments in detail on the Byzantine rite of his day and is able to draw comparisons with the Roman liturgy as well. The work is also valuable for all those who wish to understand more about the theory and practice of worship in the Orthodox Church. In this edition the text of the "Commentary" has been supplemented by a brief foreword which places Cabasilas' work in its historical context.. A helpful introduction by R.M. French describes the celebration of the liturgy in the Orthodox Church. 120pp $10.00 Paper (SVS Press)

THE EARLY LITURGY: TO THE TIME OF GREGORY THE GREAT, by Josef A. Jungman A true classic on the development and history of the early liturgy. 324pp $18.00 Paper ( Notre Dame)

EASTER IN THE EARLY CHURCH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN TEXTS, by Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M., Cap This anthology of texts for students and preachers presents the authentic Christian traditions about Easter. Father Cantalamessa comments on the texts of the ancient Jewish authors (Exodus 12, Deuteronomy 16, Philo of Alexandria), the New Testament writers (the Gospel writers like Paul), writers of the 2nd century (Eusebius of Caesarea, Hippolytus of Rome), Greek writers (Heracleon, Ptolemy, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus), Syrian writers (Ephraem the Syrian, Cyrillonas), Latin writers (Tertullian, Zeno of Verona, Amborse of Milan), and others. 280pp $20.00 Paper (The Liturgical Press) Out of Print

EVENING WORSHIP IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, by Nicholas Uspensky The evolution of the rite of Vespers and the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is traced from Old Testament antecedents and primitive forms in the early Church to their forms of celebration today. $12.00 Paper (SVS Press)

FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, edited by Gerard Austin, O.P. Expand your understanding of the history and practice of worship. Twelve scholars share the results of their recent research. Authors and topics include: Ancient Church Orders, by Paul F. Bradshaw; Holy Things for the Saints, by Robert Taft; The Unbloody Sacrifice, by Kenneth Stevenson; Sacramental Validity Today, by John Gurrieri; Use of Liturgy as a Theological Source, by Mark Searle. $25.00 Paper (Pastoral Press)

A HISTORY OF LITURGICAL BOOKS: FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, by Eric Palazzo This book is a synthesis embracing over a millennium of the history of Western litrugical sources; it also is a manual of introduction to these sources. A detailed chapter is devoted to each type of book, each boook intended for a specific form of celebration (Mass, Office, rites) and for a specific celebrant (p[ope, bishop, deacon, monastic, etc.). The crucial transition from oral practice to the use of the written document is discussed in every case, as well as illustrations of liturgical books. 258pp $33.00 Paper (The Liturgical Press)

THE HISTORY OF THE LITURGY: THE MAJOR STAGES, by Marcel Metzger The essential forms of the liturgy were fixed very early according to the apostles. But the place given to biblical readings, teachings, singing and ritual has varied through the centuries. This first book of three describes the most important phases of these changes. For the first millennium, the author focuses on liturgy's essential's common to the Eastern and Western Churches. For the second millennium, he explains the deviations of the Western Churches which called for the effort of reform and renewal begun by Vatican II. Metger studies the development of the liturgical institutions and distinguishes liturgy's five main stages that correspond to the situations of the Churches in ancient, medieval and modern societies. 160pp $17.00 Paper (The Liturgical Press)

THE HISTORY OF THE LITURGY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, Robert F. Taft, S.J.

PRECOMMUNION RITES - HISTORY OF THE LITURGY OF SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, VOLUME 5 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, Volume 261)

INTRODUCTION TO LITURGICAL THEOLOGY, by Fr. Alexander Schmemann A great Orthodox liturgical scholar presents an incisive analysis of the heart of Orthodoxy: the Divine Litrugy. $11.00 Paper (SVS Press)

THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS IN EAST AND WEST, by Robert Taft, S.J. The origins and development of the Divine Office are traced through both Eastern and Western branches of the Church. This classic study is a major resource for the liturgical scholar. 421pp $20.00 Paper

THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, Mike Aquilina You and your family push aside the curtain and enter a room at the back of the private home. You are warmly greeted by friends who have gathered on this Sunday morning to celebrate the Lord's Day. You listen as the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read. Then the presider explains the readings and exhorts all present to live a life worthy of the Savior. After a few moments of prayer, bread and wine are blessed, broken, and distributed to all present. Before you leave for home, a collection is taken up for the needs of the church. Sound familiar? It should. It's the same Mass we celebrate today. Only this account comes from the year 67 AD - barely 30 years after Christ's death. In The Mass of the Early Christians, author Mike Aquilina uses anecdotes and historical texts to show vividly how the Mass was celebrated at the beginning of the Christian Church, trace its progression over the ages, and highlight the fascinating diversity that arose as Christianity spread throughout the world. 224pp $12.00 Paper (Our Sunday Visitor)

ORTHODOX FEASTS OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN MARY: LITURGICAL TEXTS WITH COMMENTARY, Hugh Wybrew Christian faith in Jesus Christ as both divine and human was formulated at doctrine by the ecumenical councils of the Church in the fourth and fifth centuries. That doctrine was given liturgical expression in the feasts of Christmas and other festivals celebrating events in the life of Christ and Mary. These honor the Christian belief that, in Jesus, the Son of God became human so that human beings might share in the life of God. This book presents selected Orthodox liturgical texts for these feasts of the incarnation. Freshly translated into modern English, each day's material in introduced by a short account of its thematic sources, and accompanied by a brief spiritual and theological commentary. An opening section gives a concise acount of the development of the liturgical calendar and the origins of these feasts in the Orthodox Church. Orthodox Feasts of Jesus Christ and theVirgin Mary inroduces Western Christians to the doctrinal richness of Orthodox liturgical celebrations of the Word become flesh. A companion volume to Orthodox Lent, Holy Week and Easter, by the same author, it provides Christians of all traditions with material for meditation and personal prayer. 144pp $11.00 Paper (SVS Press)

THE ORTHODOX LITURGY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUCHARISTIC LITURGY IN THE BYZANTINE RITE, by Hugh Wybrew Hugh Wybrew's authoritative but splendidly readable book traces step-by-step the sotry of the development of the Orthodox liturgy from the Last Supper to the present day and vividly conveys a sense of what it would have felt like to be among the worshippers. $11.00 Paper (SVS Press)

THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: SOURCES AND METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY LITURGYJ, by Paul F. Bradshaw Traditional liturgical scholarship has generally been marked by an attempt tofit together the various pieces of evidence for the practice of early Christian worship in such a way as to suggest that a single, coherent line of evolution can be traced from the Apostolic Age to the 4th century. Paul Bradshaw examines this methodology in the light of recent developments in Jewish liturgical scholarship, of current trends in New Testament studies, and of the nature of the source documents themselves, and especially the ancient church orders. In its place he offers a guide to Christian liturgical origins which adopt a much more cautious approach, recognizing the limitations of what can truly be known, and takes seriously the clues pointing to the essentially variegated character of ancinet Christian worship. 244pp $14.00 Paper

THE STUDY OF THE LITURGY (Revised Edition), edited by Cheslyn Jones, Edward Yarnold, S.J., Geoffrey Wainwirght and Paul Bradshaw A monumental work indispensable to any student of the liturgy. The contributors are first-rate scholars in their field. A history of the Liturgy and a superb source of information on contemporary revisions of the Liturgy in Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Churches. 547pp $32.00 Paper

Sacramental Studies

THE ANAPHORAS OF SAINT BASIL AND SAINT JAMES: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THEIR COMMON ORIGIN (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, Volume 240)

BAPTISM AND CHANGE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES, C.200-C.1150 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, #20), by Peter Cramer $75.00 Hardcover (Cambridge)

BAPTISM IN WATER AND BAPTISM IN THE SPIRT: A BIBLICAL, LITURGICAL, AND THEOLOICAL EXPOSITION, by P. Larere, O.P.; translated from the French by P. Madigan, O.S.B. Grounding himself in Scripture and Church history, the author scrutinizes with objectivity both the practices and doctrines of the different communions (including the Orthodox). The result is an appreciation of what baptism in the Spirit means for each tradition as well as its connection with baptism in water. $8.00 Paper (The Liturgical Press) Out of Print

ESSAYS ON EARLY EUCHARISTIC PRAYERS, edited by Paul F. Bradshaw The Churches of the East possess a sometimes bewildering array of Eucharistic prayers. This book offers a guide to the exploration of the principal prayers, and presents in a simple and succinct manner the currect scholarship on the origins, development and relationship of these prayers to other ancient prayers. As well as summarizing the state of research and suggesting directions for future study, these essays explain the history of these prayers, their relationship to one another and reveal how and why early Christian prayers developed as they did. In this way, the book produces a clear picture of the way early Eucharistic prayers emerged and grew in the Eastern Churches. 240pp $30.00 Paper (The Liturgical Press)

EUCHARIST: SACRAMENT OF THE KINGDOM, by Fr. Alexander Schmemann This is the crowning achievment of the work of Fr. Schmemann, reflecting this great liturgical scholar's entire life experience, as well as his thoughts on the Divine Liturgy. $13.00 Paper (SVS Press)

MARRIAGE IN THE WESTERN WORLD: MORALS AND THE LAW, Jean Gaudemet; translated by Isabel Roche Marriage is in crisis. All the countries of the industrialized world are affected by the rejection of commitments, the precariousness of the bond, the increase in nonlegalized unions, and the decrease in birthrates. Jurists, moralists, and sociologists have observed this trend and shown their concern, but explaining it is more difficult. Its the institution in crisis or is society? History can offer some valuable answers. In the Western world, during the last two millenniums, marriage was at the center of conflicts between the law and passion, financial interests and feelings, families and couples, and even sometimes the Church's teachings and secular legislation. The Christian Church retained the Roman notion of consensual marriage but modified it in certain areas, particularly where the notion of indissolubility was concerned. Hence the formation of canon marriage law which, due to the weakness of secular authorities, soon became the monopoly. But even during its golden age (the 11th to 13th centuries), canon law did not guarantee rigorous respect of Christian morals. This strict consensualism in fact encouraged clandestinity. As early as the fourteenth century, kings wanted to regain control over marriage. Regal doctrines, the religious crisis of the Protestant Reformation, and humanist criticisms prior to those of philosophers combined to put an end to the Church's monopoly over morals and laws. Once secularized, however, Western marriage remained profoundly marked by the Roman-canonical tradition. These are the multifaceted conflicts evoked in this study. With a masterly hand, the author traces the history of the complex interplay between principles and reality, basing his observations on legal debates, literary works, and statistics. Neither a textbook nor a collection of anecdotes, this book is a scholar's synthesis, slowly nourished by decades of teaching. It shows that the history of marriage is less a history of laws than that of the fate that was in store for them. 496pp $50.00 Cloth ( Notre Dame)

ORDINATION RITES OF THE ANCIENT CHURCHES OF EAST AND WEST, by Paul F. Bradshaw Paul Bradshaw prresents the early practice or ordination in both East and West by introducing the reader to the principal primary sources, then outlining the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual contianing elements common to the ritual for bishops, presbyters and deacons, and finally considering the prayers and ceremonies proper to each of the ordeers. 288pp $20.00 Paper

THE PRACTICE OF PENANCE, c. 900-1050, Sarah Hamilton This study examines all forms of penitential practice in the Ottonian and Salian Reich, c.800-c.1050. Tracing the varieties of penitential practice recorded in church law, the liturgy, monastic practice, narrative and documentary sources, it argues that many of the changes previously attributed to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries can be found earlier in the tenth and early eleventh centuries. This book thus studies the Church in action in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the reality of relations between churchmen, and between churchmen and the laity, as well as the nature of clerical aspirations. It examines the legacy left by the Carolingian reformers and contributes to our understanding of pre-Gregorian mentalities in the period before the late eleventh century reforms. 256pp $75.00 Hardcover (Boydell and Brewer)

THE ROYAL PATRONAGE OF LITURGY IN FRANKISH GAUL - TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE BALD 877 (Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia 3, 1352-1047),Yitzhak Hen This book concentrates on a limited but very important aspect of the history of the Frankish liturgy, the royal patronage of liturgy, a vital witness to the cultural creativity and social development that characterized early medieval Francia. The patronage of liturgy in Frankish Gaul started in the Merovingian period, but it was the Carolingians, and foremost among them Charlemagne, who realized the political power within the patronage of liturgy and used it to ease the formation and acceptance of new political ideals and structures. The examination of royal patronage of liturgy in the Frankish kingdoms also allows re-examination of some of the prevailing notions regarding the Frankish liturgy, such as that of a unified Carolingian liturgy, and massive Romanization of the Frankish rite. 192pp $60.00 Hardcover (Boydell and Brewer)