Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword by Robert Spaemann xiii
1. Eternal Stone Age 1
2. Liturgy—Lived Religion 11
3. Does Christianity Need a Liturgy? 33
4. “Tear the Images out of Their Hearts”: Liturgy and the Campaign against Images 45
5. Tradition’s Avant-Garde: The Benedictines of Fontgombault 59
6. Liturgy is Art 67
7. Statio: Before Entering the Cathedral 81
8. Kneeling, Standing, and Walking: A Correct Understanding of “Active Participation” 89
9. On the Confiteor of the Old Rite 101
10. Solemn High Mass 105
11. Why Holy Mass Must Be Sung 109
12. The Last Gospel 117
13. A Cathedral in a Nutshell: The Missal of Trent 121
14. “This is my Body”: On Veneration of the Sacrament of the Altar in the Catholic Church 135
15. Revelation through Veiling in the Old Roman Catholic Liturgy 149
16. The Holy Mass Celebrated in Ruins 159
17. On the Occasion of the 90th Birthday of Benedict XVI 175
18. The Procession through the Sliding Door—A Passage from the Novel A Long Night 189