{"title":"Pre-1955","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-once-and-future-roman-rite","title":"The Once and Future Roman Rite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e[This book is published not by Os Justi Press but by TAN. However, Os Justi Press offers its customers signed copies of Dr. Kwasniewski's books.]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEver since Paul VI imposed a new set of liturgical books, Roman Catholic faithful have suffered the effects of a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors. But man is not master over divine liturgy; rather, all of us are called to be stewards of it, from the lowest-ranking layman to the pope himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Peter Kwasniewski argues that sacred Tradition is the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy, which originates from Christ and is guided by the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church. The prominent identifying traits of the classical Roman Rite—and indeed of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—are absent from the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Roman rite.” To respond to this crisis of rupture, we must return fully to the Tridentine Rite, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Roman rite in its robust perennial richness, for which no special permission is or could ever be needed. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to the Roman Church and to Christ Himself, Who has lovingly inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years. 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No es posible encontrar en el \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNovus Ordo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e los rasgos más prominentes que identifican al rito romano clásico -y, de hecho, a todos los ritos tradicionales, orientales y occidentales-, lo que lo aleja de la compañía de éstos, haciendo imposible llamarlo “rito romano”. La única forma de subsanar esta ruptura es el regreso sin reservas al legado tridentino -que es el rito romano en su plenitud-, para cuya celebración no se necesita, ni podría jamás necesitarse, permiso especial alguno.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40328014659682,"sku":"rito-romano","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40328014692450,"sku":"rito-romano-2","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":40328014725218,"sku":"rito-romano-3","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/ritoromano.jpg?v=1682527929"},{"product_id":"the-words-of-the-missal","title":"The Words of the Missal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"All I want is that this book may help people to pray still better, and to love the Missal still better, so that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhat is old and familiar shall reveal new beauty and lovableness.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIf you read St. John or St. Paul, you are almost sure to love their works, or at least some parts of them. But if you take real trouble to find out what exactly their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewords\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emean—Faith, for example; Justice; Fulness; Spirit; Light—their value begins to glow forth from within, and the page becomes transfigured and quite different from what it was before you took the pains to pause, compare, ponder, and to catch all manner of elusive shades and depths of meaning in such words. When you re-read those writers you will not any more have to spend time over such details, nor find yourself pulled up or committed to any complicated work, but the flow and the glory of the inspired pages will be a new thing for you.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSomething similar can be done with the Roman Missal. The Latin words in the Missal at times float and waver, and require care before they perfectly yield up their sense. Others have so definitely \"Latin\" a flavour that it is very difficult to translate them exactly into English; still, the attempt should be made, along with a little explanation. Others may seem so ordinary that we might take them for granted and not notice some of the richer meaning that is theirs.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe method of this book, then, is quite simply to take a few of the words which come often in the Missal so as to be in a certain sense \"favourite\" words in the Liturgy, or else, other words that we might not notice; to collect several instances of their use (for isolated instances prove little; many exercise a cumulative effect); and then, to “worry” them until a kind of valuable juice of meaning is crushed out of them. 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Daily life was punctuated by the ringing of bells; regular cycles of processions around the city by the clergy, religious, and confraternities; feast days; pilgrimages to local shrines; and other fiercely guarded local rituals. From the king’s magnificent chapel at Versailles to the fields of the humblest rural parish, the Church’s calendar and ceremonies formed a sacred landscape in which every Frenchman’s life unfolded, shaping his experience of time and place, reinforcing personal, local, and national identities and binding together the stratified society of early-modern France with a common ritual life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is this charming and long-vanished world that the first-ever translation of Le Brun’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiturgical Travels Through France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrings to modern English readers, accompanied by copious notes and an extensive introduction that provide context for the original work and show its (at times surprising) relevance to current debates. The volume is enriched with dozens of contemporary plates as well as introductory essays and appendices by Claude Barthe, François Hou, and Shawn Tribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePRAISE FOR THIS BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiturgical Travels\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThrough France\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a goldmine of information about customs, architecture, clothing, piety, liturgy, and social life in early-modern Europe. This edition was prepared with loving attention to detail and good taste. It exudes the fascination of solemn liturgy. A treasure trove of information and competent commentary for deepening our understanding of the West’s liturgical tradition.” —Alkuin Schachenmayr, O.Cist., Benedict XVI Philosophical-Theological University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is high time to re-evaluate the complex phenomenon of Neo-Gallicanism and to study its representatives. Le Brun des Marettes and his contemporaries were an early modern sort of ethnologists, combining philology with fieldwork. Their travelogues open up an unexpected fountain of information: a world of cathedrals, parishes, and monasteries, throbbing with life in ancien régime France . . . a bewildering mixture of medieval survival, baroque pomposity, and enlightened antiquarianism.” —Miklós István Földváry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Liturgical life after Trent has all too often been portrayed as one of lifeless submission to centralised Roman rubricism. Not so—at least in France—as this volume makes perfectly clear. Le Brun immerses us in the colourful landscape of pre-Revolution Catholic worship which, in spite of many differences in local detail, displays a living liturgical and cultural integrity that is utterly enviable in our own highly compartmentalised and fragmented set of secular subcultures.” —Alcuin Reid, OSB, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Organic Development of the Liturgy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Originally intended as a kind of ecclesiastical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelin Guide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Le Brun’s travelogue through the churches of France now serves as a liturgical time machine. While one may not always find oneself in sympathy with the author’s judgments, the spirited, imaginary debates a reader can have with Le Brun make for delightful company along this literary pilgrimage.” —Urban Hannon, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThomistic Mystagogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In our age of information saturation, it is astonishing how little access the English speaker has to data about the worship practices of our Catholic ancestors. Filling this lacuna is a fresh translation of Le Brun’s eighteenth-century classic. Readers will be surprised by how much authentic liturgical diversity existed during a time of alleged Tridentine ossification.” —Michael P. Foley, Baylor University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo read more:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sicutincensum.wordpress.com\/2025\/07\/10\/liturgical-treasures-of-pre-revolutionary-france\/\"\u003eLiturgical Treasures of Pre-Revolutionary France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eCanticum Salomonis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003eLiturgical Travels Through France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eNew Liturgical Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42043226620002,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42043226652770,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42043226685538,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/liturgicaltravels.jpg?v=1751924060"},{"product_id":"lumen-christi-defending-pre-1955-roman-rite","title":"Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite","description":"\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"lry1ug-icwsmi-xkd2aw-ps6t6d\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe Roman rite, once the serene inheritance of countless saints, was not abruptly overturned in the late 1960s, as a conventional traditionalist narrative suggests; instead, it was subjected to a process of gradual dismantling in the mid-twentieth century, prior to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ecoup de grâce \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003edelivered by Paul VI’s Consilium. Among the most significant turning points was the imposition of a “reformed” Holy Week in 1955 under Pope Pius XII. This was no gentle pruning or “restoration” but a momentous rupture, a deliberate reshaping of ancient ceremonies to fit the mind of modern man, an attempt to reimagine and improve upon the past rather than receiving it humbly as the treasure it is. As a result, the 1962 liturgical books bear the wounds of earlier deformations and anticipate wounds yet to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLumen Christi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e confronts these uncomfortable truths, not in a spirit of nostalgia but in the name of intellectual honesty and historical clarity. Authentic liturgical development never came from panels of experts wielding scissors and glue; it emerged from the living faith of the Church, slowly refined in its expressions over the course of centuries. In its magnificent Holy Week, its rich calendar, and its undiminished prayers and ceremonies, the classical Roman Rite is no museum piece left behind in the march of progress. It is the Latin Church’s living liturgy, still loved by many souls, and ripe for reintroduction wherever the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eusus antiquior\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis—or, in a happier future, will come to be—offered in our churches. What was sacred to our forefathers remains sacred and great for us today: such is the conviction that animates the pages of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLumen Christi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a panoply of historical, liturgical, canonical, and theological arguments, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLumen Christi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehelps readers to understand what is at stake in the restoration of the once and future Roman Rite and provides practical guidance in accomplishing it. Four ample appendices round out the book: permissions needed (or not needed) for the use of earlier liturgical books; charts of all the changes made to the missal and breviary between 1955 and 1962; a step-by-step plan for transitioning at the parish level from the 1962 to the pre-1955; translations of key liturgical documents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the end, our task is simple: to emerge from the cave of modern liturgical innovations into the full light of tradition. 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