Spirit of the Liturgy

The Spirit of the Liturgy Ignatius Press (September 2000) Cardinal Ratzinger compares this work to a much earlier classic of the same title by Romano Guardini because Ratzinger feels that his insights here are similar with what Guardini achieved in his time regarding a renewed understanding of the Liturgy. "My purpose here is to assist this renewal of understanding of the Liturgy. Its basic intentions coincide with what Guardini wanted to achieve. The only difference is that I have had to translate what Guardini did at the end of the First World War, in a totally different historical situation, into the context of our present-day questions, hopes and dangers. Like Guardini, I am not attempting to involve myself with scholarly discussion and research. I am simply offering an aid to the understanding of the faith and to the right way to give the faith its central form of expression in the Liturgy." Reviews In Form and Expression, by John F. Baldovin. America. May 7, 2001. A Tale of Two Cardinals, by Garry Wills. Book review of Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith, by John Allen, Jr., and The Spirit of the Liturgy. New York Review of Books April 26, 2001. Book Review: The Spirit of the Liturgy. Living Tradition, No. 92 (March 2001). The Scandal of the Liturgy, by Fr. Paul Scalia. Adoremus Bulletin. Online Edition - Vol. VI, No. 9: December 2000 - January 2001. Excerpts The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer Music and the Liturgy