Holy Week by Fernand Cabrol

Holy Week

Fernand Cabrol

IHS Press · Paperback · March 1, 2013

This veritable handbook of the Roman Liturgy for the so-called "Great Week," or Holy Week, commemorating the chief historical events in the Christian narrative of the redemptive passion and death of Jesus Christ, consolidates the "unreconstructed" liturgical texts from the Roman Missal and Roman Breviary from before the reforms of the early 1950s.

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Who it’s for
Vernacular liturgical texts meet historical and theological commentary on pre-1950s rites.
Genres
Worship & Liturgy, Easter & Lent, Catholicism
Published
IHS Press, March 1, 2013

About this book

This veritable handbook of the Roman Liturgy for the so-called "Great Week," or Holy Week, commemorating the chief historical events in the Christian narrative of the redemptive passion and death of Jesus Christ, consolidates the "unreconstructed" liturgical texts from the Roman Missal and Roman Breviary from before the reforms of the early 1950s.

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Abbot Cabrol, an early twentieth-century liturgist of unparalleled ability, renders the liturgical texts in the vernacular with notable grace and clarity, while his historical and theological commentaries add context and meaning to these most venerable and antiquated of all rites within the Roman Catholic liturgy. Read more

Roman Holy Week

Vernacular liturgical texts meet historical and theological commentary on pre-1950s rites.

Come here for

  • Roman liturgical texts rendered in the vernacular
  • Historical context for Holy Week rites

Expect

  • Texts from the Roman Missal and Roman Breviary
  • Theological commentary on the rites

Where it sits

Catholicism64%
Worship & Liturgy62%
Easter & Lent60%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Christian Holidays
  • Easter & Lent
Authors
Fernand Cabrol
Publisher
IHS Press
Published
March 1, 2013
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Christian Holidays