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By Joseph Dougherty

ISBN-10: 0810871645

ISBN-13: 9780810871649

From Altar-Throne to desk: The crusade for widespread Holy Communion within the Catholic Church investigates what the distinguished pupil of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the best and such a lot winning liturgical reform in Catholic background. just a century in the past, trustworthy, working towards Catholics obtained Holy Communion just once a yr; now, between American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a regimen, weekly devotional perform. This e-book explains how and why this ritual sea-change occurred. This publication emphasizes that major ritual swap might happen whereas liturgical texts stay an identical, and it additionally proposes a mode for realizing the reasons for this sort of ritual swap. It admonishes to not undertaking present ritual perform into even our fresh earlier. extra, it implies an evidence for the big decline in Catholics' use of the sacrament of reconciliation.

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