Worship is in the seventy-third year of publication.
Formerly known as Orate Fratres , it is published by the monks of Saint John s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. The first issue appeared on the First Sunday of Advent, 1926. It was originally edited by Dom Virgil Michel with the help of other well-known pioneers of the modem liturgical movement, including Gerald Ellard, S.J., Martin Hellriegel, William Busch, and Justine Ward, all from the United States, as well as Donald Attwater from England, and James O'Mahony, O.F.M., from Ireland. Its primary aim was to develop a better understanding of the spiritual impact of the liturgy and to promote active participation on the part of all men and women in the worship of the Church. Virgil Michel had four specific objectives in view.