Authentic Liturgical Renewal in Contemporary Perspective [Hardcover]

The ongoing debates on the present state and the future of the Roman Catholic worship are not confined to specialists, but are clearly of interest to a wider public, as the responses to the Sacra Liturgia UK conference, held in London in July 2016, have shown.

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference and raises the question of how to bring to fruition the insights and instructions of the Second Vatican Council and its key document on the liturgy,Sacrosanctum Concilium, in the life of the Church today. The initial contribution from Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, calls for a fuller implementation ofSacrosanctum Concilium. Following on from this other leading figures and liturgical scholars, such as Joris Geldhof, David Fagerberg and Alcuin Reid, examine Catholic worship from a variety of perspectives, including historical, pastoral, social, cultural and artistic themes. Taken together, these chapters present another crucial step along the route of authentic liturgical renewal in the contemporary world.

Stimulating essays from various perspectives -- theological, liturgical, pastoral, historical -- that will help deepen the Church's reflection on the reform of the liturgical reform, which is essential to the New Evangelization, and to the rebuilding of Christian culture in the religious wastelands of once-Christian Europe. How the Church prays has everything to do with what the Church does -- or doesn't -- believe, which is why it is so important that the Church worship in spirit and in truth. This volume makes an important contribution to the evolution of a 21st-century Catholicism that worships as its great tradition and the Fathers of Vatican II would expect. George Weigel Distinguished Senior Fellow and lC^