Books published by Liturgical Press

Priestly Spirituality in a Changing Church

A Study of the Sacrament of the Sick

Theological Reflection in Everyday Life

A Mass Guide for Planners and Participants

Diadochus is the most important spiritual writer of his century, whose influence can be found in the writings of Maximus the Confessor, Simeon the New Theologian, Gregory of Palamas, and the author of The Way of the Pilgrim. He is among the earliest witnesses of the Jesus Prayer. This is the first translation of his complete works in English.

The Source and Summit of Faith

A Pastoral Resource

The recent emphasis placed on the study of narrative has found its way into theological studies. Essentially, this volume is an exploration of narrative and of the significant fact that the Jewish and Christian communities have continued over the centuries to tell stories that they reverence as the Word of God.

The Word of the cross is a living word, crying out for reinterpretation as life takes new shape and expression. Reinterpreting the Gospel was particularly compelling for Matthew's church because his Christians lived in a time of profound transition. The Passion of Jesus, then, was not simply a story of suffering out of the past but a point of identification for the Christians of Matthew's own time.For us twentieth-century Christians, who also know the peculiar suffering and hope of living in an age that is both dying and being born, the Passion of Jesus according to Matthew has special meaning.¿Donald Senior, CP, has labored long to fathom and share the meaning of the passion of Jesus in all its aspects. The passion narratives have been a major focus of his scholarly career, beginning with his dissertation at the University of Louvain on the passion narrative according to Matthew, which is a significant contribution to scholarship on the death of Jesus. Now the harvest of his years of biblical, theological and historical studies on the passion is presented in The Passion Series.

Journeys in Ancient and Modern Egyptian Monasticism

Essays on the Four Gospel Passion Narratives

Born in 1090, Bernard of Clairvaux died sixty-three years later, and was canonized in 1174. His friends and brothers began writing his official life even before he died, so convinced were they of his personal holiness and his importance to the Church of his day. Not everyone who knew him, however, liked him, no matter how much they may have admired his holiness. For nine centuries, those who have read his works and studied his activities have experienced a similar ambivalence. Some regard this 'most controversial and provocative of saints' as a great director of souls; others consider him an ecclesiastical busybody.In The Difficult Saint, Brian Patrick McGuire examines various facets of Bernard's life and the legend that survived him from the perspective of the Middle Ages and of the modern world. 'I want to suggest', he writes, 'that Bernard becomes more understandable as one grows older and gains more life experience'.

Portraits of Monastic Oblates

Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy

In 1921, Anton Baumstark delivered two lectures on thedevelopment of the Roman Rite to a gathering at the Abbey ofMaria Laach. Abbot Ildefons Herwegen offered to publish thoselectures, but Baumstark decided to write a book on the topicinstead, which was published two years later as On the HistoricalDevelopment of the Liturgy. It would be another sixteen years beforehe produced Comparative Liturgy, for which he is better known.Together the two books lay out Baumstark's liturgical methodology.Comparative Liturgy presents his method; On the HistoricalDevelopment of the Liturgy offers his model.For nearly a century, On the Historical Development of the Liturgyhas been valued by specialists in the field of liturgical studies, bothfor its description of comparative liturgy and for the portrayalof patterns Baumstark discerns in liturgical development. Alsosignificant are the hypotheses Baumstark proposes and the evidencehe brings to bear on problems in liturgical history. In this annotatededition, Fritz West provides the first English translation of this work by Anton Baumstark.

This volume explores the lives of Old Testament women: mothers and wives, queens and slaves, prophets and warriors, powerful women and victims; women whose stories offer courage and insight. Each chapter begins with suggestions for readings, and includes biblical excerpts.

These 56 essays present cultural reflections on the Gospel reading assigned for each Sunday in Cycle A of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the cultural world in which Jesus lived, and suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemporary Western culture.

Women in the Gospel of Luke

Highlighting aspects of the 1st century, Eastern-Mediterranean cultural world in which Jesus lived, this book suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemporary Western culture. It can be used as an aide in preaching, lectionary-based catechesis or scripture study.

A Catholic Guide to Studying Scripture

Keeping Vigil with the Word of God