num_pages: 256
description: Considered by many scholars to be Cardinal Ratzinger's greatest work on the Liturgy, this profound and beautiful treatment of the "great prayer of the Church," written before Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, will help readers rediscover the Sacred Liturgy in all its hidden spiritual wealth and transcendent grandeur as the very center of the Christian life. In his foreword to the book, Cardinal Ratzinger compares this work to a much earlier classic of the same title, written by Romano Guardini. Ratzinger seeks to help foster today what Guardini sought in his time regarding a renewed understanding of the Liturgy. "My purpose here is to assist this renewal of understanding of the Liturgy. Its basic intentions coincide with what Guardini wanted to achieve. The only difference is that I have had to translate what Guardini did at the end of the First World War, in a totally different historical situation, into the context of our present-day questions, hopes and dangers. Like Guardini, I am not attempting to involve myself with scholarly discussion and research. I am simply offering an aid to the understanding of the faith and to the right way to give the faith its central form of expression in the Liturgy."Among many liturgical areas he covers, the Cardinal discusses fundamental misunderstandings of the Second Vatican Council's intentions for liturgical renewal, especially the orientation of prayer at the Eucharistic sacrifice, the placement of the tabernacle and the posture of kneeling.The Spirit of the Liturgy presents Pope Benedict XVI's vision for the role a genuine renewal of the Sacred Liturgy must play in renewal of the Church and her mission in the world today. That vision begins with a deepened sense of what it means to worship God, a sense that is the heart of the Church's Liturgy.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: El Espíritu de la Liturgia. Una Introducción
titlecomplete: El Espíritu de la Liturgia. Una Introducción
genres: Christian, Spirituality, History, Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Catholic, Nonfiction, Christianity, Faith
ratings_count: 1913
publisher: Ediciones Cristiandad