From USCCB Publishing, this revision of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) seeks to promote more conscious, active, and full participation of the faithful in the mystery of the Eucharist. While the Missale Romanum contains the rite and prayers for Mass, the GIRM provides specific detail about each element of the Order of Mass as well as other information related to the Mass.

What it means to be a man or a woman is questioned today like never before. While traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades, now the very categories of male and female are being discarded with reckless abandon. How does one act like a gentleman in such confusing times? The Catholic Gentleman is a solid and practical guide to virtuous manhood. It turns to the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church to answer the important questions men are currently asking. In short, easy- to-read chapters, the author offers pithy insights on a variety of topics, including • How to know you are an authentic man • Why our bodies matter • The value of tradition • The purpose of courtesy • What real holiness is and how to achieve it • How to deal with failure in the spiritual life

As the number of available priests has declined, the Sunday Mass is becoming less and less available in some parishes and dioceses. Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest addresses this growing reality by providing the appropriate ritual to be used in the celebrating community. This revised ritual edition of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest is fully bilingual, with Spanish and English printed side by side. It includes Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and two appendices, Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest and Gathered in Steadfast Faith. This beautifully bound ritual book includes three ribbons and is printed in two colors. It will be a welcome addition to the sacristy or library of every parish, school, convent, and religious house.

In this volume in the Liturgy Documentary Series, the bishops reaffirm the distribution of the Holy Communion to the faithful under both kinds.

A guide to the Catholic Mass and the proper forms of celebration, with a particular emphasis on the theology of the Eucharist and the role of the priest in the liturgy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Two powerful private revelations of Our Lord. Says that anyone who receives Holy Communion worthily 30 consecutive days and says certain prayers, will save his own soul and that of another. Affects everyone!

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. COMMUNION AND LAST PRAYERS OF HOLY MASS. I. Everything is ready for the consummation of the sacrifice and for partaking of the heavenly banquet, the Victim is immolated, the table is laid, Jesus Christ is impatient to give Himself to those whom He loves. "Desiderio desideravi hoc pascha manducare vobiscum."' The priest falls on his knees and profoundly adores Him who vouchsafes to become his food. But encouraged by the infinite condescension of a God who so tenderly inclines to him, he rises up full of saintly ardor and exclaims with the eagerness of a famished person--I will take the bread which alone can satiate all my desires, the heavenly bread which gives a foretaste of blessedness to those who receive it--"Panem ccelestem accipiam"--and in the joy of my soul I will call upon the name of the Lord--" et nomen Domini invocabo." These last words, according to St. Augustine, may be considered as an expression of ardent desires. For to invoke the Lord is to invite Him to come in us to be our strength, our light, and our life. "Quid est invocare, nisi in se vocare," We may 'Luke xxii. i5. also give them another meaning. To invoke the Lord is to adore and thank Him--to render Him, in a word, all the duties of religion. That I can never do more perfectly that when I am become one with Christ Himself. But the body of the Saviour is already in the hands of His minister, whence it will pass into his heart, uniting itself to his being, as bread to the body which it sustains. With this thought a new feeling of terror seizes the soul of even the most fervent priest. What is he to do? What wonder if fear and confidence succeed each other with such rapidity when he is about to perform an action which, in the judgment of the Church, may...