What I find especially impressive is the integration here between liturgy and music of the liturgy. It really isn't possible to speak complete of one without a thorough consideration of other. Separating the two leads to problems and unnecessary tensions. The music problem really is a liturgical problem, and the answer to the issue of liturgy needs to concern itself with the musical issues.
CONTENTS:
D. Vincent Twomey: Verbum Domini: word and rite in Ratzinger’s sacramental theology
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke: Ius Divinum and the sacred liturgy
Paul Gunter OSB: Sacerdos paratus and populo congregato: the historical development of the Roman Missal
Manfred Hauke: The ‘basic structure’ (Grundgestalt) of the eucharistic celebration according to Joseph Ratzinger
Dieter Böhler SJ: The Church’s Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, Israel’s sacrifice: reflections on Pope Benedict’s axiom ‘Without its coherence with its Old Testament heritage, Christian liturgy simply cannot be understood’
Cassian Folsom OSB: The Roman Missal in Summorum pontificum
Sven Leo Conrad FSSP: Liturgy as ‘a transcending movement’ (J. Ratzinger): reflections on the form and theology of the opening rites in the Roman Missal
Lauren Pristas: The post-Vatican II revision of the Sunday collects of Paschaltide: an overview
William Mahrt: Music and the sacrality of the two forms
Janet E. Rutherford: The Anglican patrimony
Daniel B. Gallagher: What has language to do with beauty? The philosophical foundations of liturgical translations
Uwe Michael Lang CO: Translating the Missale Romanum: towards a sacral vernacular
George Cardinal Pell: Why a new translation of the Missal?
Arthur Serratelli: The new Roman Missal: a moment in the Church’s liturgical renewal
Helmut Hoping: The Ordo Missae of 1965: the Latin-German altar missal and liturgical renewal
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke: APPENDIX: Homily for Pontifical High Mass on the fourth Sunday after Pentecost 2011 (Romans 8:18–23; Luke 5:1–11)
Dr Janet E. Rutherford is Secretary of The Patristic Symposium, Maynooth. James O'Brien is an Official of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.