The origins and development of the Divine Office are traced through both Eastern and Western branches of the Church, providing a wealth of historical and liturgical information.

From the small beginnings of a few Christians in New Testament Jerusalem, the prayer of the Church spread, changing and evolving as it met and was assimilated by different cultures.

This classic study is a major resource for the liturgical scholar.

Kansas Historical Quarterly, V14, No. 3, August, 1946. In Fifteen Volumes. No. 1, Frenzeny And Tavernier; No. 2, W. J. Hays; No. 3, Henry Worrall; No. 4, Custer's Last Stand: John Mulvany, Cassilly Adams And Otto Becker; No. 5, Remington In Kansas; No. 6, Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen; No. 7, Alfred E. Mathews; No. 8, Graham And Zogbaum; No. 9, Alfred R. Waud And Theodore R. Davis; No. 10, Artists Of Indian Life: Henry F. Farney; No. 11, The Leslie Excursions Of 1869 And 1877: Joseph Becker, Harry Ogden And Walter Yeager; No. 12, William Allen Rogers And Mary Hallock Foote; No. 13, The End Of A Century; No. 14, Illustrators Of The Pacific Railroad Reports; No. 15, John M. Stanley And The Pacific Railroad Reports.

Kansas Historical Quarterly, V17, No. 4, November, 1949. In Fifteen Volumes. No. 1, Frenzeny And Tavernier; No. 2, W. J. Hays; No. 3, Henry Worrall; No. 4, Custer's Last Stand: John Mulvany, Cassilly Adams And Otto Becker; No. 5, Remington In Kansas; No. 6, Heinrich Balduin Mollhausen; No. 7, Alfred E. Mathews; No. 8, Graham And Zogbaum; No. 9, Alfred R. Waud And Theodore R. Davis; No. 10, Artists Of Indian Life: Henry F. Farney; No. 11, The Leslie Excursions Of 1869 And 1877: Joseph Becker, Harry Ogden And Walter Yeager; No. 12, William Allen Rogers And Mary Hallock Foote; No. 13, The End Of A Century; No. 14, Illustrators Of The Pacific Railroad Reports; No. 15, John M. Stanley And The Pacific Railroad Reports.

Kansas Historical Quarterly, V14, No. 4, November, 1946.

Reprinted From The Kansas Historical Quarterly.

Kansas Historical Quarterly, V14, No. 4, November, 1946.

Much has been written regarding the western liturgy; the same cannot be said of the Byzantine liturgy. Father Taft contributes to a remedy of that shortfall through this work. In it he traces the origins of the Byzantine Rite during its period of formation: from its earliest recorded beginnings until the end of Byzantium (1453 c.e.). While the rite has undergone some change in the period since then, its outlines remain essentially the same.