The Liturgical Year: Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum, Easter Time (Vol. 2) Volume 2

by Adrien Nocent, Paul Turner

Overview

When Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year was published in the 1970s, it was the very first comprehensive commentary on the three-year lectionary in relation to the Sacramentary/Missal as these were revised following the Second Vatican Council. Expressed on nearly every page was Nocent's conviction that the liturgy and the Word of God proclaimed within it have something important to say to real people of every culture and time. He constantly returns to the question: What does this passage have to say to us today?

Now this extraordinary work of applied, postconciliar liturgical scholarship has been emended and annotated by one of today's leading liturgical scholars. Paul Turner has provided many helpful explanatory notes on history, culture, language, and, of course, liturgy. He has also updated the liturgical texts to conform to The Roman Missal, Third Edition. The result is a resource that promises to enrich and inspire a new generation of presiders, preachers, liturgy planners, and students.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II's Sacrosanctum Concilium, encounter the vibrant scholarship and pastoral wisdom of Adrien Nocent's The Liturgical Year again or for the first time!

Volume 2 covers Lent, the Paschal Triduum, and the season of Easter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814635704
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Series:	Liturgical Year , #2
Edition description:	Annotated
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Paul Turner is pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception  in Kansas City, Missouri and director of the Office of Divine Worship for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. He holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.He is a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a member of Societas Liturgica and the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. His publications include One Love: A Pastoral Guide to the Order of Celebrating Matrimony, Inseparable Love: A Commentary on The Order of Celebrating Matrimony in the Catholic Church, Glory in the Cross: Holy Week in the Third Edition of The Roman Missal, Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass, and Whose Mass Is It? Why People Care So Much about the Catholic Liturgy, all published by Liturgical Press. He is also a contributor to Give Us This Day.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations ix

Series Introduction xi

Lent

Introduction 3

Biblico-Liturgical Reflections on Lent 5

1 The Anthropology of Lent 5

2 The Experience of Lent in the Fathers 18

3 The Church, Place of Divinization 31

4 Lent and the Modern Christian 48

Structure and Themes of the Lenten Liturgy 52

5 Lent Then and Now 52

6 First and Second Sundays of Lent (Year A): Our Victory and Transformation in Christ 62

7 Third Sunday of Lent (Year A): The Thirst for the Water of Life 83

8 Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A): The Light of Truth 96

9 Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A): Arise and Live 102

10 First Sunday of Lent (Year B): The Flood and the Covenant 114

11 Second and Third Sundays of Lent (Year B): God Has Handed over His Son for Us 124

12 Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent (Year B): The Salvation of the World 131

13 First and Second Sundays of Lent (Year C): The Faith That Transforms 139

14 Third and Fourth Sundays of Lent (Year C): Be Converted and Reconciled in Order to Rise New with Christ 144

15 Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year C): Live again and Regain Your True Dignity in a New Life 148

16 The Main Themes of the Lenten Weekday Celebrations 150

17 Palm Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week: Toward the Mount of Olives 159

18 Toward the Glorious Passion of the Lord 166

19 Reconciliation 175

20 The Ongoing Renewal of Creation 186

21 Lent in the Liturgies of the Past 190

The Sacred Paschal Triduum

Biblico-Liturgical Reflections on the Sacred Paschal Triduum 205

22 A Crucified God 205

23 The Glorious Christ, Victor over Death 214

24 The Resurrection and the Eucharist 221

Structure and Themes of the Three Holy Days 224

Thursday of the Lord's Supper, at the Evening Mass 224

25 Celebrations Ancient and Modern 224

26 The Pasch That Gathers 230

27 The Lord's Supper 246

The Three Holy Days of Christ Dead, Buried, and Risen: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday 255

28 The Unity of the Three Holy Days 255

The Glorious Passion of Christ Our Lord: Good Friday 257

29 Celebrations Ancient and Modern 257

30 The Blood of the Lamb 264

31 The Servant Pierced and Victorious 271

The Lord Rests in the Tomb: Holy Saturday 281

32 Celebrations Ancient and Modern 281

33 His Body Reposes in Hope 283

Christ Our Passover: Easter Vigil 286

34 Celebrations Ancient and Modem 286

35 The Light of Christ 293

Easter Time

Structure and Themes of Easter Sunday and Easter Time 329

Easter Sunday 339

36 This Day That the Lord Has Made 339

Second Sunday of Easter 353

37 Believing without Seeing 353

Third Sunday of Easter 364

38 The Risen Christ Appears to His Disciples 364

Fourth Sunday of Easter 372

39 The Good Shepherd 372

Fifth Sunday of Easter 379

40 Ministries in the New Community 379

Sixth Sunday of Easter 389

41 The Spirit and the Church 389

42 The Ascension of the Lord 397

Seventh Sunday of Easter 405

43 Jesus Prays for His Disciples 405

Pentecost Sunday 411

44 The Mission of the Holy Spirit 411

45 The Weekday Readings of Easter Time 423

46 Missal Prayers during Easter Time 428

47 The Easter Vigil in Other Liturgies 437

Solemnities and Feasts of the Loud

48 Solemnity of the Most Blessed Trinity 443

49 Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) 453

50 Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 465

51 December 8: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary 473

52 February 2: The Presentation of the Lord 475

53 March 19: St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 477

54 March 25: The Annunciation of the Lord 479

55 June 29: SS. Peter and Paul, Apostles 480

56 August 15: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 481

57 November 1: All Saints 483

Notes 484

Editorial Reviews

Adrien Nocent was truly a remarkable scholar well ahead of his time! First published in English in 1977, we cannot today but be astonished at the depth of theological and pastoral insight on the Lectionary and liturgies in this first of his multivolume work on the liturgical year. He weaves the paschal mystery, eschatology, and living liturgy daily into a core tool for interpreting Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany in a fresh way. In this reissue, Fr. Paul Turner sensitively respects Nocent’s own voice as he bridges the time after the Council to the present age: he emends the text to render it in horizontal inclusive language, redresses some theological and historical issues, and includes the latest translation of the liturgical text. This work needs to be on every priest’s, liturgist’s, musician’s, and assembly member’s ‘go to’ shelf.” Joyce Ann Zimmerman, CPPS Institute for Liturgical Ministry


“Though originating in the postconciliar period, Adrien Nocent’s volumes remain one of the church's finest commentaries on the Lectionary and contain remarkable up-to-date insights for our times. Thanks to the emendations and annotations of Paul Turner, one of today’s finest liturgical scholars, these volumes will enrich the thoughts of parish liturgists, presiders, homilists, musicians, lectors, theology students, and participants in the church’s liturgy.“ Stephen J. Binz, Biblical scholar, Author of Conversing with God in Advent and Christmas (also Conversing with God in Lent and Conversing with God in the Easter Season)


“Aggiornamento is back! Paul Turner has updated the first volume of Adrien Nocent’s The Liturgical Year in a discrete, respectful, and informed manner, enabling the author’s reflections on the feasts and seasons as well as on the Lectionary to connect effectively with the concerns and interests of present-day readers. I look forward to the next two volumes.” Patrick Regan, OSB, Saint Joseph Abbey, Saint Benedict, Louisiana, Author of Advent to Pentecost


“In 1977 when Adrien Nocent's book appeared in English translation, I was studying the liturgical year with him at Sant’Anselmo. I remember how moved I was to read his deep reflections after having experienced the new lectionary with its three-year cycle of readings at that point only a couple of times. Now, having experienced the three-year cycle more than a dozen times, I am still moved by his writings. I am delighted that his book has been updated by Paul Turner and is coming into print again.” Michael S. Driscoll, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame


“This new edition of Adrien Nocent’s The Liturgical Year dappers up an old friend! The passing of time and the introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal had made the original edition of Nocent’s work more difficult to use. Now Paul Turner has done us a favor with this thorough revision: he has replaced prayer texts with the new translation, explained the context of some issues that have faded in the almost forty years since Nocent wrote the book, and emended Matthew J. O’Connell’s fine translation to make it more accessible to readers today. The virtues of Nocent’s original work (namely, his opening up of the reformed liturgical year through the lens of the lectionary and prayer texts of the Missal in the light of the history of the liturgy) can again serve preachers, liturgists, and lovers of the liturgy because of Turner’s fine work. It promises to be a key resource for another forty years.” Rev. Michael Witczak, Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies, Catholic University of America

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