The Origins Of The Liturgical Year: Second, Emended Edition (Pueblo Books)

In this definitive work, Thomas Talley draws on all the resources of historical scholarship to examine and unravel the complications brought to liturgical time by the blending of local traditions.

Liturgical time, like all ecclesiastical structures, has interacted with other traditions since the early centuries. Yet Doctor Talley found that the gospel tradition and its liturgical employment shaped the period that comprises the liturgical year.

His findings illustrate for the reader that every festival the Church celebrates - very Sunday - is centered primarily and finally in the Eucharist, which from the beginning and always proclaims the Lord's death until he comes.

• Celebrating Liturgical Time: Days, Weeks, and Seasons
• This Is the Night: Suffering, Salvation, and the Liturgies of Holy Week
• The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the Reform of the Liturgy
• The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick (Lex Orandi)
• Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe
• Go Forth Christian Soul: The Biography of a Prayer
• The Origins of Feasts, Fasts, and Seasons in Early Christianity (Alcuin Club Collections)
• Between Memory and Hope: Readings on the Liturgical Year
• The Oxford History of Christian Worship
• Daily Prayer in the Early Church: A Study of the Origin and Early Development of the Divine Office