Books published by Liturgical Press

Travels in the Borderland Between East and West

"Is ritual a "forgotten way of doing things'?"That is the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in "improved texts," nor in the recovery of some mythic "golden age," nor in the "rearrangement of furniture," but in relearning ritual behavior.Christian ritual, Guardini believed, is not the contemplative act of an individual but the public deed of an assembly -- a community gathered in faith and prayer in obedience to Jesus' command. Can people and presiders today relearn this communal way of "doing"? Can they learn to "read" ritual acts simply by doing them, by performing them -- without being self-conscious, theatrical, and fussy?Over the past thirty-five years, Christian liturgists have sought to reinterpret ritual's multiple meanings by transplanting insights from the social sciences (sociology, anthropology). Have the transplants worked? This book tries to answer that question.

Catholics have a rich and ancient prayer tradition that informs contemporary practice. This book contains chapters that explore prayer chronologically, from "Old Testament" psalms, "New Testament" models, and early church theologies, through the period of the Counter-Reformation. It also looks at prayer in the communal contexts of the Mass.

Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

The Sermon on the Mount in "St Matthew's Gospel" is a good synopsis of Jesus' teaching and the Beatitudes summarize the Sermon on the Mount. This work reflects on the Beatitudes and their focus on the kingdom of heaven. It shows how the Sermon on the Mount deepens understanding of the spiritual virtues the vows are intended to nurture.

The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East

A Cistercian Anthropology

A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church

Mirror of Charity

The Herald of God's Loving-Kindness Books 1 and 2

Treatises and Pastoral Prayer

Spiritual Exercises

Sermons on the Song of Songs Volume 1

The Case for Citeaux

Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary

A Theology of Christian Call

The Story of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue

Salvation in the Bible and in Our Lives

Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests

A Guide to Resources

The Sacramental-Moral Theology of Bernard Haring, C.Ss.R.

Jerusalem in the Theology of the Old Testament

Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo

Conversation, Canon, and Congregation

Reflections on the Sunday Readings, Year B

Jesus and the Use of Parables in the Synoptic Tradition