'Because the Sacred Liturgy is truly the font from which all the Church's power flows...we must do everything we can to put the Sacred Liturgy back at the very heart of the relationship between God and man... I ask you to continue to work towards achieving the liturgical aims of the Second Vatican Council...and to work to continue the liturgical renewal promoted by Pope Benedict XVI, especially through the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis...and the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum... I ask you to be wise, like the householder...who knows when to bring out of his treasure things both new and old (see: Mtt 13:52), so that the Sacred Liturgy as it is celebrated and lived today may lose nothing of the estimable riches of the Church's liturgical tradition, whilst always being open to legitimate development.'

These words of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, underline the liturgy's fundamental role in every aspect of the life and mission of the Church. Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century makes available the different perspectives on this from leading figures such as Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Abbot Philip Anderson, Father Thomas Kocik, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr Lauren Pristas.

Considering questions of liturgical catechetics, music, preaching, how young people relate to the liturgy, matters of formation and reform, etc., Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource for all clergy and religious and laity involved in liturgical ministry and formation. Bringing forth 'new treasures as well as old,' its contributors identify and address contemporary challenges and issues facing the task of realising the vision of Cardinal Sarah, Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council.

Editor's Preface
Message of Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, USA
Message of Bishop Dominique Rey, Bishop of Frejus-Toulon, France
Message of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco, Italy

1. Beauty in the Sacred Liturgy and the Beauty of a Holy Life
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Sant' Agata de' Goti, Italy

2. The Reform of the Reform
Thomas Kocik, Diocese of Fall River, USA

3. The Post-Vatican II Revision of Collects: Solemnities and Feasts
Lauren Pristas, Caldwell College, USA

4. The Ease of Beauty: Liturgy, Evangelization and Catechesis
Margaret Hughes, College of Mount St Vincent, USA

5. Addressing the Triumph of Bad Taste: Church Patronage of Art, Architecture, and Music
Jennifer Donelson, St Joseph's Seminary, USA

6. Liturgical Music is Non-Negotiable
Gregory Glenn, The Cathedral of the Madeleine, USA

7. Liturgical Leadership in a Secular Society: A Bishop's Perspective
Salvatore Cordileone, Diocese of San Francisco, USA

8. Youth and the Liturgy
Mattew Menendez, Juventutem Founder, USA and UK

9. Liturgical Preaching
Allan White OP, Catholic Centre at New York University, USA

10. The Formation of Priests in the 'Spirit and Power of the Liturgy' (SC14): Observations on the Implementation of the Constitution and Proposals for the Liturgical Formation of Priests in the 21st Century
Kurt Belsole OSB, Saint Vincent Archabbey, USA

11. Liturgy as the Source of Priestly Identity
Richard Cipolla, St Mary Church, USA

12. Holy Week Reforms Revisited
Alcuin Reid, Monastère Saint-Benoît in the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France

13. Liturgical Formation and Catholic Identity
Christopher Smith, Prince of Peace Catholic Church, USA

14. The Reform of the Lectionary
Peter Kwasniewski, Wyoming Catholic College, USA

15. The Reform of the Liturgical Calendar: The Reduction of Recapitulation
Michael Foley, Baylor University, USA

16. Living the Liturgy: The Monastic Contribution to Liturgical Renewal
Phillip Anderson OSB, Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey, USA

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