Liturgical Institutions

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Originally published over the course of eleven years (1840-1851) in three ample volumes that span nearly two thousand pages Dom Prosper Guéranger's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Liturgical Institutions </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries at the hands of anti-liturgical heretics whose lineage is by no means exhausted. A vast narrative of astonishing breadth and penetration the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Institutions </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>remains a masterpiece of analysis and synthesis with striking relevance to our times. In this first-ever English translation of the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Institutions</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> based on Jean Vaquié's deftly-condensed one-volume French edition from 1977 the reader will find a comprehensive vision of Catholic worship incomparably defining and defending the rites-and rights-of sacred tradition.</span></p><p></p><p></p>