Books published by Liturgical Press

Father Burt offers a rare reflection on the seven steps in Augustine's journey towards the vision of God and suggests that they are also the stages we must go through in order to finally " see" the God of love for ourselves.

Their Evolution and Interpretation Revised and Expanded Edition

Mark wrote "the beginning of the Gospel" for Christians who thought it was the end. For that he told them a story of another time when Jesus' disciples thought it was the end but turned out to be the beginning. That is why the passion-resurrection of Jesus dominates the Gospel according to Mark. Using rhetorical and literary analysis, Father LaVerdiere introduces Mark's story as the beginning of the Gospel as we enter a new millennium.

History and Theology

Features meditations for each day of the year. Each one consists of a short quote from Augustine followed by a reflection by Fr Burt. This work covers the daily experiences we all have such as living a life of hope, falling in love, facing death, and dealing with difficult people.

Communio Sanctorum is the most recent product of the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in Germany and the first major Lutheran-Catholic ecumenical statement since the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. It focuses on the ecclesiastical issues that the Joint Declaration identified as the remaining obstacles to Lutheran-Catholic communion.

Studies of John's Gospel in Tribute to Raymond E. Brown, S.S.

Feminist liturgy is not esoteric nor weird nor for women only. Rather it is liturgy that has been shaped by women and some men who recognized that something was missing in the worship of our synagogues and churches. And not only was something missing, but at times what was expressed was not true, especially for women and other marginalized people. Feminist liturgies began when women and a few men asked themselves what would be true, what would be just. The answers were not found in discussions about liturgy but rather in trying to use symbols, texts, and forms that expressed relationships with God, one another, all created life, more accurately and more authentically. This book traces the story of feminist liturgy: how, when, and why it began; the principles that guide it; what it looks like; and what its future may be.

Presiding in Liturgy

From Its Origins to the Present

The Prayer of the Faithful for Sundays, Holy Days, and Ritual Masses

Their History and Theology

A Short History

An Exploration

Camaldolese Benedictine Spirituality

Essays on the Gospel Narratives of the Resurrection

An Introduction to Their Worship and Spirituality

His World, His Options, His Skills

A translation of the biography written by Pope Gregory the Great, this "official biography" is also known as the Second Book of Dialogues. It is the earliest and thus the most valuable biography of St. Benedict.

This book offers a comprehensive panorama of modern Roman Catholic ecclesiology as it springs from the vision proclaimed by the Second Vatican Council in Lumen Gentium. The author's central thesis is an ecclesiology built around the notion of communio: all members of the Church should be able to carry out their respective responsibilities toward the Church at all levels (pastors, bishops, the entire Church). The Church needs the honest experiences of the faithful in the world in order to recognize and to meet the demands of the times by drawing on its ongoing tradition together with the work of the Holy Spirit. From this emerges the need to re re-think of the universal Church as a community of local churches.Questions concerning the scriptural basis for the Church are handled in an exegetical section. Next a systematic treatment deals with the nature of the Church, its structures (communities and offices; the structure of its offices), and the Church's duties (evangelization; the relations between Church and society).Dr. Garijo-Guembe emphasizes the systematic description of important moments in the history of dogma. From this foundation the author takes up questions directed by the Orthodox and the Churches of Reformation toward the Roman Catholic Church and attempts to answer them..A rich bibliography-international in its authorship and ecumenical in their confessional backgrounds-rounds off each chapter.

Method in Liturgical Theology

A Development in Recent Catholic Theology

An Introduction to Lectio Divina

In this new edition the author adds the words to familiar hymns and includes new insights gathered from Documents of Vatican II, Paul VI's Decree on Evangelisation, and prose and poetry that foster the spirit of prayer.