Gassner, Jerome

The Canon of the Mass Its History, Thoelogy, and Art - London B. Herder Book Co. 1949 - 404p

includes index and biblioraphy

THe council of Trent on the Canon.....1 The canon as doctrine......12 The canon as a sacramental.... .26 The canon as a work of art.......35 names and limits....45 The preface the original canon....53 The hallel, the proximate type of the canon..63 THe liturgy of the apocalypse...81 Traditional ideas in ancient and eastern liturgies......88 The roman preface..........104 The priesthood of Christ..112 The sanctus....126 Scriptural background .....138 The benedictus.......167 The preconsecratory invocations......170 Development of the invocations parallel to the giving thanks he blessed............183 The individual preconsecratory invocation teigitur clementissime pater...................196

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