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The Spirit of the Liturgy

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2000

Originally published
  
2000

Publisher
  
Ignatius Press

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Author
  
Pope Benedict XVI

Subjects
  
Liturgy, Theology


Similar
  
Pope Benedict XVI books, Catholic Church books

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The Spirit of the Liturgy (German: Der Geist der Liturgie) is a 2000 book written by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) before his ascension to the papacy.

Contents

Excerpts

  • “The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer:
    • The re-shaping so far described, of the Jewish synagogue for the purpose of Christian worship, clearly shows--as we have already said--how, even in architecture, there is both continuity and newness in the relationship of the Old Testament to the New.”
  • “Music and Liturgy:
    • The importance of music in biblical religion is shown very simply by the fact that the verb "to sing" (with related words such as "song", and so forth) is one of the most commonly used words in the Bible.”

    References

    The Spirit of the Liturgy Wikipedia
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