Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style

by Aidan Kavanagh

Overview

Keeping in mind two pastoral considerations - the liturgy itself and the assembly that worships - Father Kavanagh looks not beyond rubrics but deep into their historical and pastoral existence in order to develop rules of style which articulate this existence in current Roman liturgical usage. From this research has come a pastoral manual for clergy who preside at liturgical celebrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814660546
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Series:	Elements of Rite
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.58(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Aidan Kavanagh, OSB, (1926-2006) founded the doctoral program in liturgical studies at Notre Dame and served as professor of liturgics at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. His texts on liturgy, rites of initiation, and liturgical theology made him a significant figure in American Catholic liturgiology. He is the author of Elements of Rite, On Liturgical Theology, and The Shape of Baptism published by Liturgical Press.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction   1
Elementary Rules of Liturgical usage   12
Some General Laws of Liturgy   35
Principles for Putting Liturgy Together   47
Some Matters of Form   61
Some Common Mistakes   72
An Approach to Liturgical Style   82
Bibliography   105