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Holy mass : the Eucharistic sacrifice and the Roman liturgy, Vol. 1

Catholic Library series #5. Holy mass : the Eucharistic sacrifice and the Roman liturgy, Vol. 1 "PREFATORY NOTE. The attempt to write yet another book about the Mass, while, for English-speaking Catholics, Dr. Fortescue's work on the Roman Liturgy holds the field, may be deemed, perchance, both presumptuous and inopportune. It has been thought, how- ever, that there is room for a shorter and more popular treatment of the same subject, and I have been asked to undertake it. The following pages will, however, be found to contain no mere summary of Dr. Fortescue's more erudite and comprehensive treatise. Indeed, as will appear more particularly in Chapters X.— XIII. and XVI., the opinions here put forward on more than one question of some importance will be found to differ from those to which that distinguished scholar has given expression. A considerable portion of the contents of these two little volumes has, in substance, already appeared in print, in the form of articles contributed to The Dublin Review ( 1 893 — 4), The Tablet (1896, &c), The Month (1900 and 1902), and lastly to a couple of local magazines, viz., The Xaverian and The Ignatian Record (1908—10). The matter of these

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