This is a fifteen volume set, which is being brought back into
print for the edification of the Faithful. Anyone who wishes to
appreciate the timeless Tridentine Mass and liturgy will find this
set a valuable aid in that endeavor. Dom Gueranger has produced a
most excellent work, which began the liturgical movement. We pray
that this set of books will bring many more to a true appreciation
of the Latin Mass and the Divine Office of the Catholic Church. At
one time, under the impulse of that Spirit, which animated the
admirable Psalmist and the Prophets, she takes the subject of her
canticles from the Books of the Old Testament; at another, showing
herself to be the daughter and sister of the holy Apostles, she
intones the canticles written in the Books of the New Covenant; and
finally, remembering that she, too, has had given to her the
trumpet and harp, she at times gives way to the Spirit which
animates her, and sings her own new canticle. From these three
sources comes the divine element which we call the Liturgy. The
Prayer of the Church is, therefore, the most pleasing to the ear
and heart of God, and therefore the most efficacious of all
prayers. Happy, then, is he who prays with the Church, and unites
his own petitions with those of this Spouse, who is so dear to her
Lord, that he gives her all she asks. It was for this reason that
our Blessed Saviour taught us to say our Father, and not my Father;
give us, forgive us, deliver us, and not give me, forgive me,
deliver me. Hence, we find that, for upwards of a thousand years,
the Church, who prays in her temples seven times in the day, and
once again during the night, did not pray alone. The people kept
her company, and fed themselves with delight on the manna which is
hidden under the words and mysteries of the divine Liturgy. Thus
initiated into the sacred Cycle of the mysteries of the Christian
year, the faithful, attentive to the teachings of the Spirit, came
to know the secrets of eternal life; and, without any further
preparation, a Christian was not unfrequently chosen by the Bishops
to be a Priest, or even a Bishop, that he might go and pour out on
the people the treasures of wisdom and love, which he had drunk in
at the very fountain-head. For whilst Prayer said in union with the
Church is the light of the understanding, it is the fire of divine
love for the heart. The Christian soul neither needs nor wishes to
avoid the company of the Church, when she would converse with God,
and praise his greatness and his mercy. She knows that the company
of the Spouse of Christ could not be a distraction to her. Is not
the soul herself a part of this Church, which is the Spouse? Has
not Jesus Christ said: Father, may they be one, as we also are one?
and, when many are gathered in his name, does not this same Saviour
assure us that he is in the midst of them? The soul, therefore, may
converse freely with her God, who tells her that he is so near her;
she may sing praise, as David did, in the sight of the Angels,
whose eternal prayer blends with the prayer which the Church utters
in time.
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