Benedict XVI's reform
Subtitle: the liturgy between innovation and tradition
By: Nicola Bux ; preface by Vittorio Messori ; translated by Joseph Trabbic
Contributors: Messori, Vittorio, 1941-; Trabbic, Joseph
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781586174460
Subjects: Liturgy; Mass; Celebration; Catholic Church; Liturgical reform; History
Other titles: Benedict the Sixteenth's reform
Work titles: Riforma di Benedetto XVI
Description: When Benedict XVI reestablished the celebration of the older Latin Mass, voices of protest rose up from many sides. This book explains the motives behind the Pope's decision to allow two forms of the Mass by turning to the Pope's own theological and liturgical writings and also draws on the author's experiences on various Church commissions and in offices of the Roman Curia. The author also brings to his subject an astute understanding of current social and spiritual trends both inside and outside the Church. Sensitive to modern man's hunger for the sacred, he desires with Pope Benedict XVI that the Mass be first and foremost a place of encounter with the living God.  --Publisher.
Notes: Original Italian edition: La riforma di Benedetto XVI, ©2008 by Edizioni Piemme Spa, Milan, Italy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sacred and divine liturgy; title: The one to whom we draw near in divine worship; title: The battle over liturgical reform; title: The pope calls a cease-fire; title: The ecclesial crisis and the disintegration of the liturgy; title: How to encounter the mystery; title: A new liturgical movement.