A History of the Dominican Liturgy 1215-1945

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Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With an Introduction by Bartholomew J. Eustace. The Dominican rite is associated with the memory of some of the Church's greatest sons. It was the rite of fifteen canonized Saints and more than three hundred Blesseds; and two Doctors of the Church — Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas — have chanted the praises of the Almighty and offered the Bloodless Sacrifice according to its norms. Then, too, the Dominican rite long fulfilled the function of preserving the memory of ancient Roman liturgical practices which the Roman Church itself had long since abandoned. Hence the importance of an adequate understanding and appreciation of the Dominican rite. Introduction Author's Preface Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1. The Liturgies of the Western Church 2. Dominicans Founded as Canons Regular 3. Beginning of Dominican Conventual Life 4. Dominican Liturgical Manuscripts Prior to Humbert 5. The Breviary-Antiphonary 6. The Adoption of the Uniform Liturgy 7. The Date of the Uniform Office 8. The Commission of the Four Friars 9. The Correction of Humbert 10. The Dominican Calendar 11. The Mass according to Humbert 12. The Divine Office according to Humbert 13. Compline and the Salve Procession 14. The Sources of the Dominican Rite 15. The Influence of the Dominican Rite 16. The Church Formally Approves of the DominicanRite 17. The Liturgy in the Fourteenth Century 18. The Close of the Middle Ages 19. The Sixteenth Century: The Revision of Salamanca 20. The Sixteenth Century (Continued) 21. The Revision of Paolo Castrucci 22. The Seventeenth Century 23. Antonin Cloche 24. The Liturgy in the Last Century 25. The Revision of Pius X Appendix: The Latin Text of Humbert's Rubrics for High Mass Bibliography Index