Ebook: The Mass: A Study in the Roman Liturgy

This classic liturgical resource is organized as follows:

Part I. The History of the Mass
Chapter I. The Eucharist in the First Three Centuries
§ 1. Liturgical Fragments in the New Testament
§ 2. The Liturgy in the Apostolic Fathers
§ 3. The Liturgy in the Second Century
§ 4. The Fathers of the Third Century
§ 5. Liturgical Uniformity in the first three Centuries
§ 6. The Liturgy in the Early Church Orders
§ 7. The Liturgy in Apostolic Constitutions VIII
§ 8. Some Special Points
§ 9. Influence of Jewish Ritual

Chapter II. The Parent Rites and Their Descendants
§ 1. The Development of the Parent Rites
§ 2. The Antiochene Rite
§ 3. Liturgies derived from Antioch
§ 4. The Alexandrine Rite
§ 5. The Gallican Rite
§ 6. Table of Liturgies

Chapter III. The Origin of the Roman Rite
§ 1. State of the Question
§ 2. Earliest liturgical books
§ 3. Latin as the liturgical language
§ 4. First traces of the Roman Mass
§ 5. Conjectured reconstructions of the old Mass
§ 6. Bunsen’s theory
§ 7. Probst and Bickell
§ 8. Dom Cagin
§ 9. W. C. Bishop
§ 10. Dr. Baumstark
§ 11. Dr. Buchwald
§ 12. Dr. Drews
§ 13. Dom Cabrol
§ 14. Concluding remarks

Chapter IV. The Mass Since Gregory I
§ 1. From Gregory to Adrian I (590-795)
§ 2. The Spread of the Roman rite
§ 3. Gallican Influence
§ 4. Different Kinds of Mass. Low Mass
§ 5. Mediaeval and Later Commentators
§ 6. Mediaeval derived rites
§ 7. The Reform of Pius V (1570)
§ 8. Later revisions and modern times

Part II. The Order of the Mass
Chapter V. The Mass of the Catechumens to the Lessons
§ 1. Arrangements of the Parts of the Mass
§ 2. The Introit
§ 3. The Celebrant’s Preparation
§ 4. First Incensing of the altar
§ 5. Kyrie eleison
§ 6. Gloria in Excelsis
§ 7. Collects

Chapter VI. The Lessons
§ 1. The Lessons
§ 2. Epistle
§ 3. Gradual, Alleluia, Tract and Sequence
§ 4. Gospel
§ 5. Homily and Creed

Chapter VII. The Mass of the Faithful to the Eucharistic Prayer
§ 1. The Prayers of the Faithful
§ 2. The Offertory Act
§ 3. Azyme bread
§ 4. The Offertory Chant
§ 5. Offertory Prayers
§ 6. The Incensing and Washing of Hands
§ 7. Secrets

Chapter VIII. The Canon
§ 1. The Preface.
§ 2. Sanctus
§ 3. Name, Extent and general Character of the Canon
§ 4. Te igitur to the Words of Institution
§ 5. The Elevation
§ 6. To the end of the Canon

Chapter IX. The Communion
§ 1. The Lord’s Prayer
§ 2. Fraction, Commixture, Fermentum
§ 3. Kiss of Peace
§ 4. The Communion Act
§ 5. Communion under one kind
§ 6. Communion Prayers
§ 7. Agnus Dei and Communion Antiphon

Chapter X. After the Communion
§ 1. Postcommunion and Oratio super populum
§ 2. Dismissal
§ 3. After the Dismissal