The Eucharistic Prayer: A User's Guide

Hudock, Barry

ISBN 10: 0814632874 / ISBN 13: 9780814632871

Published by Liturgical Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Eucharistic Prayer: A User's Guide
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814632874
• ISBN 13: 9780814632871
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

We somehow think that during the eucharistic prayer at Mass we are expected to be quiet, prayerful, and attentive-if we can be, with our children or other neighbors in the pews distracting us. In this inviting book Barry Hudock shows us that the eucharistic prayer is indeed the most dynamic and explosive" moment of Christian worship-in fact, of Christian life. Hudock takes us back to the beginnings of formal eucharistic worship in the early church, then forward to Vatican II and beyond, unpacking and exploring the eucharistic prayers old and new in words and concepts accessible to all of us. He also offers us, as the fruit of the journey, a set of points for a eucharistic prayer spirituality to prepare us for the explosion into life that is the whole purpose of our being.

About the Author

Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin has been on the faculty of The Catholic University of America for over thirty years, where he held the Walter J. Schmitz Chair of Liturgical Studies (2000–2015), served as Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies (2005–2011), and is currently an Ordinary Research Professor. Msgr. Irwin has published eighteen books on liturgy and sacraments.