{"title":"Special series","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sacred-signs","title":"Sacred Signs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease note that as we are still waiting for our supply of hardcovers, any hardcovers of this title will ship 2-3 weeks later than the paperbacks. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll worship is, in the first\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplace, an act of justice in which the creature renders\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the Creator that which is due Him. The human task is to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e this act\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eworthily, in accord with the Divine Will, and as we\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit, to remember always that it is not we who\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshape the liturgy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe liturgy that shapes us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis process of being shaped is the work of a lifetime.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e As Goethe says\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewe “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebegin by taking delight in externals,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003euntil we have the good fortune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto grasp the substance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ell Christians\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eespecially\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003echildren who are making their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efirst \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esteps in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe faith—should \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etry to acquire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea fruitful understanding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof those visible signs which believers have\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereceived\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e down through the ages as means for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpress\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvisible grace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor this to happen, education is necessary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, says Msgr. Romano Guardini: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“We need to be shown how, or by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esome means be incited, to see and feel and make\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe sacred signs ourselves.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The first step is to look with fresh eyes at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe “elements\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eout of which the higher liturgical forms have been\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econstructed”: the human person, and then the objects,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emovements, and awarenesses of time and space that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epervade everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is no better primer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor this double task\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—delight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in the externals and grasp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the substance—than Guardini’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSacred Signs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts combination of piercing insight, radiant piety, and almost fairy-tale-like language makes it unique in the annals of liturgical writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOs Justi Press is pleased to make \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethis classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eavailable \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein a new edition graced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith the original illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and a pedagogically rich introduction by Fr. 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While it is typically understood today as the practice of charging \u003cem\u003eexcessive \u003c\/em\u003einterest, this is a far cry from the meaning given to it by ancient and medieval authors, who considered the charging of \u003cem\u003eany \u003c\/em\u003einterest on a \u003cem\u003emutuum \u003c\/em\u003e(a loan of such things as are estimated by weight, number, or measure) to be usury.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinding a thorough, coherent, and believable explanation for so monumental a difference in outlook has been nearly impossible—until now. In this provocative work, David Hunt explains and defends the traditional view that usury is a charge for something that does not exist and is therefore a form of theft. 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In reality, a clear grasp of usury is crucial to understanding why many modern Westerners live in a state of financial slavery—and why this was not the inevitable result of “progress” but a direct consequence of subordinating moral reasoning to economic analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR THE BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There are few books of which one can say that they are required reading for both theologians and economists, but Something for Nothing? is surely one of them.”—\u003cstrong\u003eFr. 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Brill's work particularly shines by placing this great document in its tumultuous historic context and by thoroughly dismissing the naysayers who attempt to water down the urgency of this holy pope's directives.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJonathan Bading, B.Mus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDirector of Sacred Music, Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Parish, Grand Rapids, Michigan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"An indispensable volume for every Catholic-musician or not-who wants to understand the sacred music of the Church.... 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Newman, in his reply, displays not only his lively supernatural faith but also his panoply of natural gifts: scholarship, historical imagination, precision, the ability to produce illuminating analogies, and what may be called a gentlemanly toughness of mind.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41819315011682,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":41819315044450,"sku":"","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/newmanvirginmary.jpg?v=1742395911"},{"product_id":"commonitory","title":"Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the \u003cem\u003eCommonitorium \u003c\/em\u003eis among the most famous and influential of fifth-century Latin Patristic works, relatively little is known about its author, Vincent (“the pilgrim,” as he calls himself), a late-vocation monk of Lérins Abbey on the Isle of Saint Honorat off the coast of France. Yet the voice that speaks to us from these pages is rich in personality, deftly trained in logic, rhetoric, theology, and history. His thesis is clear, his argument compelling: the Christian faith is rooted in a changeless deposit of faith revealed by God, entrusted to the Apostles and their successors, and, accordingly, incompatible with novelty; progress consists only of a deeper understanding and expression of what remains in itself the same, so that no future formulation can ever contradict what has already been understood and expressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the centuries, Vincent’s Canon—“In the Catholic Church, every care should be taken to hold fast to what has been believed everywhere, always, and by all”—has resounded as a battle cry for defenders of dogmatic tradition; indeed, it served as inspiration and catalyst for John Henry Newman’s \u003cem\u003eEssay on the Development of Christian Doctrine\u003c\/em\u003e. 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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. 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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. This book is an indispensable roadmap for that journey.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"hushpuppyUpsell_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"53evth-hds4wx-mjh69p-6yjm5r\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"hushpuppyUpsell_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"hushpuppyUpsell\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"hushpuppyUpsell\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"hushpuppyUpsell_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"richProductInformation_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"mqvd4l-iq80t2-hrizx8-jjxw1h\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"richProductInformation_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"richProductInformation\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"richProductInformation\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"richProductInformation_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"rich_product_information\" data-csa-c-id=\"u4pe0b-695k09-vjgjkm-scwnp9\" class=\"a-section a-spacing-none celwidget\" id=\"rich_product_information\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42100645429346,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42100645462114,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42100645494882,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/lumen_christi.jpg?v=1755358005"},{"product_id":"liturgical-institutions","title":"Liturgical Institutions","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"lry1ug-icwsmi-xkd2aw-ps6t6d\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published over the course of eleven years (1840–1851) in three ample volumes that span nearly two thousand pages, Dom Prosper Guéranger’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiturgical Institutions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003esets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries at the hands of “anti-liturgical heretics” whose lineage is by no means exhausted. 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