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Early Liturgy

To the Time of Gregory the Great

Josef A. Jungmann

Liturgical Studies

This volume consists of a series of lectures delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 1949. Believing with Cardinal Newman that “the present is a text and the past its interpretation,” Father Josef Jungmann, S.J., explains liturgical worship in the Early Church to the time of Gregory the Great. From this foundation, the reader is led to an understanding of how present liturgical forms developed.

”... demonstrates the impact of social and political events upon the conduct of Christian worship, as well as the impact of Christian worship on social habits.” — _The Times Literary Supplement _

” ... a classic on the subject.” — Commonweal