Holy Week: The Complete Offices in Latin and English - Softcover

“The great dictionary of archaeology and liturgics appearing under his editorship would alone secure for him a distinguished place among scholars.”  —American Historical Review

“This is a magisterial book. Abbot Cabrol’s qualifications as an authority on liturgy are too well known to need emphasis, and it was a happy idea that led him to turn aside for a while from the immense labors of the Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie in order to give [Liturgical Prayer to] the general Catholic public.”  —Blackfriars

“Internationally renowned as an authority on liturgy and archaeology.”  —Catholic Authors

This veritable handbook of the Roman Liturgy for the so-called "Great Week," or Holy Week, commemorating the chief historical events in the Christian narrative of the redemptive passion and death of Jesus Christ, consolidates the "unreconstructed" liturgical texts from the Roman Missal and Roman Breviary from before the reforms of the early 1950s. Abbot Cabrol, an early twentieth-century liturgist of unparalleled ability, renders the liturgical texts in the vernacular with notable grace and clarity, while his historical and theological commentaries add context and meaning to these most venerable and antiquated of all rites within the Roman Catholic liturgy.