In The Key to Faith: Meditations on the Liturgical Year, the Internationally respected German liturgist Adolf Adam provides meditations on a number of feast days and Sunday celebrations of the liturgical year. He comments both on the content and on the symbolic richness of the texts for a particular day, relates the texts to concerns of contemporary Christians, and offers an "impulse to meditation" for the feast.

The Key to Faith: Meditations on the Liturgical Year

Religion & Spirituality

Adam, Adolf

Christian Books & Bibles

Liturgical Pr

The liturgical year emanates and derives its growth from the passion and resurrection of Christ. The present year enumerated in the Roman Calendar is the sum of the feasts that have found their set place in the annual cycle. For each of these feasts and the seasons Doctor Adam gives an individual historical-liturgical account. His basic aim is to explain the theological and spiritual substance of the liturgical year against the background of its historical development.

The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy

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Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pueblo Books

Foundations of Liturgy: An Introduction to Its History and Practice

The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy says "The Church earnestly desires that Christ's faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a good understanding of the rites and prayers they should take part in the sacred action, conscious of what they are doing, with devotion and full collaboration." What is needed and what the author offers here is that "good understanding" of the meaning and value of the Mass. After examining its historical development, Professor Adam explains each part of the Mass as it is currently celebrated. He uses understandable terminology and a form of presentation designed to increase appreciation of the Mass among the faithful and to provide the knowledge and impetus to achieve this in family and group discussions, in catechetical instruction, and in preaching.

The Eucharistic Celebration: The Source and Summit of Faith

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Liturgical Year : Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy

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