Sacred Liturgy: The Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church, ed. Dom Alcuin Reid (an

Let me quote from the blurb on the publisher's website:

Ignatius Press said:

"The Sacred Liturgy is not a hobby for specialists. It is central to all our endeavors as disciples of Jesus Christ. This profound reality cannot be over emphasized. We must recognize the primacy of grace in our Christian life and work, and we must respect the reality that in this life the optimal encounter with Christ is in the Sacred Liturgy."

With these words Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon, France, opened Sacra Liturgia 2013, an international conference in which he brought together over twenty leading liturgists, cardinals, bishops and other scholars from around the world to emphasize the centrality of liturgical formation and celebration in the life and mission of the Church. "The New Evangelization must be founded on the faithful and fruitful celebration of the Sacred Liturgy as given to us by the Church in her tradition - Western and Eastern," Bishop Rey asserted.

Sacra Liturgia 2013 - the proceedings of which this book publishes - explored questions of liturgical art, architecture, music, the ars celebrandi, the importance of ritual in human psychology, truly pastoral liturgy, the place of the older liturgical rites in the New Evangelization, liturgical formation, liturgical law, the role of the diocesan bishop in respect of the liturgy, and more.

This book is easily one of the most important books of liturgical theology published this century.* If you zoom in on the cover image posted on Amazon, you will see the list of contributors - it's more or less the Who's Who of living Catholic liturgical theologians and authorities. I intend to get my hands on a copy, and I would like that copy to be in Logos/Verbum.

*Happily, Ignatius has also just published another book about which the same can be said: Theology of the Liturgy, the first published volume of Joseph Ratzinger's Collected Works on the liturgy. It, too, I would very much like to acquire a Logos/Verbum edition of.