During the sacrifice of the Mass "the whole Revelation, the mystery of faith, the achievement of the mysteries of the Incarnation and Redemption, all the efficacy of the apostolate are realized," Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre did not hesitate to write, in a formula of striking intensity.
The priest, the religious, the missionary, the bishop, the superior, the founder that he successively was, ceaselessly deepened this great mystery of the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of the cross, which is, in his words, "the heart of theology, pastoral care, and the life of the Church."
This work systematically brings together everything the prelate said or wrote about the Mass, its rites, its prayers, its theology, its spirituality, its spirit, and its grace. It follows step by step the Ordinary of the traditional Mass, then by contrast examines the new ordo of the Mass promulgated in 1969 by Paul VI.
The reader will thus be able to discover or rediscover, with profundity and simplicity, the Holy Mass, this hidden treasure, "this most sublime act of Christian prayer."
14 × 21.5 cm
344 pages
Table of Contents:
Part 1: The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Chapter 1: The Ante-Mass
Chapter 2: The Sacrifice (The Offertory - The Canon)
Chapter 3: Holy Communion
Part 2: The Novus Ordo Missae (N.O.M)
Chapter 1: The Content of the Liturgical Reform (Law of Faith - Law of Prayer - The Intention of the Reform)
Chapter 2: Luther's Mass
Chapter 3: The Consequences of the N.O.M (Loss of Faith, of the Spirit of Faith, Loss of the Spirit of Sacrifice)
Chapter 4: Judgment on the Reform (Tradition of the Popes - Conditions of Validity - Deficiencies of the N.O.M.)
Chapter 5: The Authority of the Traditional Rite (Apostolic Origin - Perpetual Privilege - Legitimacy)
Conclusion: Nos credidimus caritati: We have believed in God's charity for us - The Great Prayer of the Church
