Ministries & Offices

Divine Worship and Sacraments

Aquilina, Mike. How the Choir Converted the World: Through Hymns, With Hymns, and In Hymns. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Road Publishing, 2016.

Bouyer, Louis. Eucharist: Theology and Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

________. Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy. University of Notre Dame Press, 1963.

Carstens, Christopher. A Devotional Journey into the Mass: How Mass Can Become a Time of Grace, Nourishment, and Devotion. Sophia Institute Press, 2018.

Carstens, Christopher & Douglas Martis. Mystical Body, Mystical Voice: Encountering Christ in the Words of the Mass. Chicago: LTP, 2011.

Corbon, Jean. The Wellspring of Worship. Ignatius Press, 2005.

Crean, O.P., Thomas. The Mass and the Saints. Ignatius Press, 2008.

Foley, Michael. Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday? The Catholic Origin to Just About Everything. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its Renewal. Ed. Uwe Michael Lang. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2018.

The Genius of the Roman Rite: Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspectives on Catholic Liturgy. Ed. Uwe Michael Lang. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2010.

Hahn, Scott. Consuming the Word: The New Testament and the Eucharist in the Early Church. New York: Image, 2013.

Hildebrand, Dietrich von. Liturgy and Personality. Hildebrand Press, 2016.

Hofer, O.P., Andrew. Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ Through the Liturgy. Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

Jungmann, Josef. The Early Liturgy: To the Time of Gregory the Great. University of Notre Press, 1959.

________. The Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development. Two volumes. Christian Classics, 1951.

­­­________. Pastoral Liturgy. Ave Maria Press, 2014.

Keller, O.P., Paul Jerome. “The Importance of a Correct Definition of Liturgy for Divine Worship.” Antiphon, vol. 26, no. 2, pp 154-178, 2022.

Lang, Uwe Michael. Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009.

Miller, Charles E. Together in Prayer: Learning to Love the Liturgy of the Hours. Wipf & Stock, 1994.

O’Malley, Timothy. Liturgy and the New Evangelization. Liturgical Press, 2014.

Pitre, Brant. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Mass. 

Psallite Sapienter: The Liturgy of the Hours. Proceedings of the Eleventh Fota International Liturgical Conference, 2018. Ed. Joseph Briody. Smenos Publications, 2019.

Ratzinger, Joseph. The Feast of Faith: Approaches to a Theology of the Liturgy. Ignatius Press, 1986.

________. The Spirit of the Liturgy. Ignatius Press, 2020.

Ruff, Anthony. Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2007.

Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship. Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2008.

Smith, Steven C. The House of the Lord: A Catholic Biblical Theology of God’s Temple Presence in the Old and New Testaments. Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 2017.

Stroik, Duncan G. The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2012.

Taylor, Richard. How to Read a Church: A Guide to Symbols and Images in Churches and Cathedrals. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2003.