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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Originally published in 1911, this book was written to provide an
index for a work by Manuel I. Gedeon, probably written between 1885
and 1890, presenting 'short lives of the bishops of Constantinople
from Apostle St Andrew to Joakim III'. The text also contains 'a
list of the Patriarchs who are numbered with the Saints'. This book
will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of
Christianity and Constantinople.
'This book, a classic guide to the celebration of the Church's
ancient Gregorian Rite in the English-speaking world, will serve
priests and seminarians of the twenty-first century--just as it
served so many priests of the twentieth--in their pastoral mission,
which now necessarily includes familiarity with and openness to the
use of the older form of the sacred liturgy. I happily commend it
to the clergy, seminarians and laity as a reliable tool for the
preparation and celebration of the liturgical rites authoritatively
granted by the Holy Father in Summorum Pontificum. 'I congratulate
the distinguished liturgical scholar, Dr. Alcuin Reid, for his care
and precision in ensuring that this revised edition conforms to the
latest authoritative decisions with regard to these liturgical
rites. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote in his letter which accompanied
Summorum Pontificum: "In the history of the liturgy there is growth
and progress, but no rupture." The Gregorian Rite is today a living
liturgical rite which will continue its progress without losing any
of its riches handed on in tradition. For as the Holy Father
continued, "What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred
and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely
forbidden or even considered harmful. It behoves all of us to
preserve the riches which have developed in the Church's faith and
prayer, and to give them their proper place." May this book assist
the Church of today and of tomorrow in realising Pope Benedict's
vision.' Dario Cardinal Castrillon HoyosPresident, Pontifical
Commission Ecclesia Dei This fifteenth edition, revised in the
light of Pope Benedict XVI's reforms and expanded and corrected
throughout, includes a new chapter on the music of solemn and sung
Mass as well as clarifications of questions that have arisen in the
light of recent experience. It gives descriptions of the rites of
pontifical, solemn and low Mass, Vespers, the liturgical year
including Holy Week, the sacraments, Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament, funerals, episcopal visitation and more.
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The Greek Fathers
Adrian Fortescue
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R621
Discovery Miles 6 210
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
THIS book forms a continuation, or second part, of The Orthodox
Eastern Church by the same author. Its object is to describe the
lesser separated Eastern Churches in the same way as that described
the greatest. .. Greatest and lesser, by the way, are only meant to
qualify their size. No opinion is thereby expressed as to their
relative merit (see p. 446). There is a difference in the subject
of this volume, which affects its treatment. These smaller Churches
are much less known. There is a vast literature on the Orthodox
Church, so that the only difficulty in writing the former book was
that of selection and arrangement. Moreover, Orthodox official
documents and service-books (at least in their original form) are
in Greek, which it is no great merit to know. Much of the matter
treated here is rather of the nature of a land, if not unknown, at
least difficult of access. There is far less information to he had
about the other Eastern Churches. And their native literature is
contained in many difficult tongues. So to write this book was a
much more arduous task, and the result may be less satisfactory. On
the other hand, it has tIle advantage of greater originality.
Concerning the Orthodox I said nothing which could not be found
fairly casily in European books already. Here I think I have been
able, in certain points, to bring what will be new to anyone who
has not made some study of Eastern matters and languages. Part of
this is gathered from notes made by myself in their lands,
interviews with prelates and c1ergy of these rites, observations of
their services, and information supplied by friends in those parts.
This vital work, first published in 1918, remains of crucial
importance to anyone attempting to understand Western liturgy. Fr.
Fortescue provides clear, helpful insight into how to correctly
order the Holy Mass as well as other liturgical services. His style
is both easily understood and authoritative.
THIS series of Handbooks is designed to meet a need, which, the
Editors believe, has been widely felt, and which results in great
measure from the predominant importance attached to Dogmatic and
Moral Theology in the studies preliminary to the Priesthood. That
the first place must of necessity be given to these subjects will
not be disputed. But there remains a large outlying field of
professional knowledge which is always in danger of being crowded
out in the years before ordination, and the practical utility of
which may not be fully realised until some experience of the
ministry has been gained. It will be the aim of the present series
to offer the sort of help which is dictated by such experience, and
its developments will be largely guided by the suggestions, past
and future, of the Clergy themselves. To provide Textbooks for
Dogmatic Treatises is not contemplated-at any rate not at the
outset. On the other hand, the pastoral work of the missionary
priests will be kept constantly in view, and the series will also
deal with those historical and liturgical aspects of Catholic
belief and practice which are every day being brought more into
prominence. That the needs of English-speaking countries are, in
these respects, exceptional, must be manifest to all. In point of
treatment it seems desirable that the volumes should be popular
rather than scholastic, but the Editors hope that by the selection
of writers, fully competent in their special subjects, the
information given may always be accurate and abreast of modern
research. The kind approval of this scheme by His Grace the
Archbishop of Westminster, in whose Diocese these manuals are
edited, has suggested that the series should be introduced to the
public under the general title of THE WESTMINSTER LIBRARY. It is
hoped, however, that contributors may also be found among the
distinguished Clergy of Ireland and America, and that the
Westminster Library will be representative of Catholic scholarship
in all English speaking countries. THIS book is intended to supply
information about the history of the Roman liturgy. The dogmatic
side of the Mass is discussed by the Bishop of Newport in the same
series. The title shows that it is a study of the Roman rite. It is
only in the Roman (or Gallican) rite that the Eucharistic service
can correctly be called Mass. The chapter about other liturgies and
the frequent references to them throughout are meant only to put
our Roman Mass in its proper perspective and to illustrate its
elements by comparison. In spite of the risk of repetition, the
clearest plan seemed to be to discuss first the origin and
development of the Mass in general; and then to go through the
service as it stands now, adding notes to each prayer and ceremony.
The present time is perhaps hardly the most convenient for
attempting a history of the Mass. For never before have there been
so many or so various theories as to its origin, as to the
development of the Canon, the Epiklesis and so on. Where the best
authorities differ so widely it would be absurd to pretend to offer
a final solution. I have no pretence of supplying a new answer to
any of these questions, or even of taking a side finally among
theories already proposed. The only reasonable course seems to be
to state the chief systems now defended and to leave the reader to
make up his own mind. I have however shewn some preference for the
main ideas of Dr. Drews and Dr. Baumstark and for certain points
advanced by Dr. Buchwald.
THIS little book is intended to supply not so much matter for
controversy as a certain amount of information about the Orthodox
Church. People in the West have too long forgotten that enormous
mass of their fellow Christians who live on the other side of the
Adriatic Sea and the river Vistula, and now that Anglicans
especially have begun to take an interest in what they look upon as
another branch of the Church, it seems regrettable that English
Catholics as a rule have only the vaguest and the most inaccurate
ideas about the people whom they confuse under the absurd name of
"Greeks." During the late war one saw how widespread were such
ideas as that the Russian clergy were under the Patriarch of
Constantinople and said Mass in Greek. It is chiefly with the hope
of rectifying such mistakes that the book has been written. There
is nothing in it that has not been said often and better before,
and the only excuse for its publication is that there does not seem
to be yet anything of the kind from the Catholic point of view in
English. As it is written for Catholics I have generally supposed
that point of view and have not filled up the pages by repeating
once more arguments for the Primacy, Infallibility of the Pope and
so on, such as can be easily found already in the publications of
the Catholic Truth Society. ... The other point is the use of the
word Orthodox. Since the schism I have called the people in union
with the Ecumenical Patriarch so. Of course the name then has a
special and technical meaning. Orthodox in its real sense is just
what we believe them not to be, But, in the first place, it seems
impossible to find any other name. Eastern is too wide, the Copts
and Armenians form Eastern Churches, Schismatic involves the same
difficulty, besides being needlessly offensive. We do not in
ordinary conversation speak of Protestants as heretics. The name
commonly used, Greek, is the worst of all. The only body that ever
calls itself, or can with any sort of reason be called the Greek
Church, is the Established Church of the kingdom of Greece j and
that is only one, and a very small one, of the sixteen bodies that
make up this great Communion. To call the millions of Russians, who
say their prayers in Old Slavonic and obey the Holy Synod at
Petersburg, Greeks is as absurd as calling us all Italians. There
is no parallel with our name Roman. We use the Roman liturgy in the
Roman language and obey the Roman Patriarch. They use the Byzantine
liturgy in all sorts of languages, and the enormous majority obey
no Patriarch at all. Byzantine Orthodox would more or less
correspond to Roman Catholic, but the Byzantine Patriarch has no
jurisdiction outside his reduced Patriarchate and occupies a very
different position from that of the Roman Pope. And then courteous
and reasonable people generally call any religious body by the name
it calls itself. We have no difficulty in speaking of Evangelicals
in Germany, the Church of England at home, and the Salvation Army
everywhere. Of course one conceives these names as written in
inverted commas, like those of the Holy Roman and the Celestial
Empires. In the same way most people call us Catholics. Naturally
all Christians believe that they are members of the Universal
Church of Christ, and most of them profess their faith in it when
they say the Creed. The way in which High Church Anglicans have
suddenly realized this and have discovered that they would give
away their own case by calling us Catholics is astonishingly naive.
Of course they think that they are really Catholics too so do all
Christians. And we never imagined that we are called so except as a
technical name which happens to have become ours, and which even
Turks give only to us. The body about which this book treats always
calls itself the Orthodox Eastern Church, and in the East we call
them Orthodox and they call us Catholics, and no one thinks for a
moment that either uses these names except as technical terms.
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Pange Lingua (Paperback)
Adrian Fortescue; Edited by Brother Hermenegild Tosf; Alan G. McDougall
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R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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ALTHOUGH it has seemed good to the Church that the ancient local
orders of saying and singing the Divine Office should in most cases
be abolished in favour of the use of that City which is the centre
and head of the Church on earth, there are nevertheless many parts
of the old and superseded rites which do not merit complete
oblivion; and since their hymns are their most individual features,
affording as they do almost the only opportunity for unfettered
composition in the scheme of the Breviary Office, the following
selection has been made therefrom in the belief that their very
real though rugged beauty will appeal to those who find the
thoughts of all but forgotten fellow Catholics an aid and spur to
their own devotion. It is hoped that the many defells of the work
will not deter its readers from seeking for themselves a share of
those jewels so easily to be found in the setting of mediaeval
books of devotion. Mr thanks are due to the Editor of the" Nation"
for permission to reproduce here the translation of "Te centies
mille legionum angeli," which first appeared in his paper. 29 hymns
are translated in all after Fortescue's introduction on Church
Music.
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