The Life of Worship: Grace, Prayer, Sacraments, and the Sacred Liturgy

Originally published in French in 1895; this English version from 1920. xvi + 814 pp.

After a robust preliminary section on grace, this comprehensive treatise on Christian worship, modestly attributed to “a seminary professor” in France in the late nineteenth century, is divided into three sections. Section 1 treats of prayer, with commentaries on the Lord’s Prayer and the Angelic Salutation. Section 2 treats of the sacraments—first in general, then one by one—and sacramentals. Section 3 treats of the liturgy as well as all that is connected with it: churches, liturgical objects, vestments, ceremonies, the divine office, feasts, and devotions. Logically organized into questions and answers, rounded out with summaries, and ornamented with scholastic charts, the present book is a thorough and trustworthy guide to traditional Catholic doctrine on the most sublime mysteries of the Faith.