{"product_id":"little-liturgical-catechism","title":"Little Liturgical Catechism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe paperback edition is already in stock; the hardcover will arrive in May. Please be aware that paperbacks will ship out immediately but hardcovers will be delayed until their arrival.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published after Dom Prosper Guéranger completed his three-volume \u003ci\u003eLiturgical Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e (1840–1851) yet prior to his final (ninth) volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Liturgical Year\u003c\/i\u003e (1841–1875), Abbé Henri Dutilliet’s \u003ci\u003eLittle Liturgical Catechism \u003c\/i\u003e(1860) bridges his master’s two monumental achievements in a comprehensive distillation of the Roman liturgy and the Church’s annual cycle of worship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite his encyclopedic effort, however, his book fell out of print within two decades; that is, until the famous decadent-novelist-turned-Benedictine-oblate Joris-Karl Huysmans discovered this pamphlet in a bookshop in the early 1890s and saw it back into print in 1896 as a remedy for the universal “ignorance of the Sacred Liturgy” he had observed among the faithful of his diocese. Nor has the need for education ceased 130 years later, when the traditional rite so beautifully expounded in this catechism has returned to more and more churches. It is thus fitting to bring Dutilliet’s marvelous catechism to light for our times, even as Huysmans did for his.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpanded with notes that explain unfamiliar terms or point out differences between the Tridentine rite about which this catechism speaks and the twentieth-century modified versions of it, this first-ever English translation of Dutilliet’s text intends to offer the faithful “the enduring enchantment of the admirable year of the Church” and the understanding that “all in her worship is full of meaning; nothing is left to hazard; no detail, however minute, is without purpose.” Reading this catechism is not only a painless way to acquire much learning in a short time, but a haunting reminder of just how much has been lost in the postconciliar Church—and how much we stand to gain by its restoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mauritius; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eEndorsements\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mauritius; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e“This modestly titled work contains most valuable instruction, for children, for the faithful at large, and even for the clergy. It sets forth the meaning of the sacred ceremonies, and is most apt to foster piety by unfolding the significance of all the several parts of the Liturgy.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Bertrand, Canon of Versailles Cathedral (1859)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mauritius; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e“Excellent and genuinely useful.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Joseph-Armand Gignoux, Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis (1867)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Mauritius; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e“The fruit of serious research, composed with as much method as precision. Through the attentive reading of this volume, the faithful shall no longer remain strangers to the understanding of our religious feasts, our ceremonies, and the manifold details of our sacred worship; and as they shall come to know the origin, the sanctity, and the dignity of these observances, they shall learn to value and to love, for their own sake, those practices which they may have formerly respected without fully comprehending. We commend this valuable work alike to those who instruct and to those who seek to be instructed.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Augustin Hacquard, Bishop of Verdun (1867)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This booklet is very appealing due to its catechetical form. If it were more widely distributed, Catholics would follow the services with greater enthusiasm, and their piety, less ignorant of the liturgy, would be deeper and more lively.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Frédéric Victor Duval (1913)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42575476260962,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42575476293730,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":42575476326498,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/liturgicalcatechism.jpg?v=1771357265","url":"https:\/\/osjustipress.com\/products\/little-liturgical-catechism","provider":"Os Justi Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}