The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile

by Peter Kwasniewski

Publisher:

TAN Books

, 2022

Ever since Paul VI imposed a new set of liturgical books, Roman Catholic faithful have suffered the effects of a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors. But man is not master over divine liturgy; rather, all of us are called to be stewards of it, from the lowest-ranking layman to the pope himself.

Dr. Peter Kwasnieski argues that sacred Tradition is the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy, which originates from Christ and is guided by the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church. The prominent identifying traits of the classical Roman Rite—and indeed of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—are absent from the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite.” To respond to this crisis of rupture, we must return fully to the Tridentine Rite, the Roman rite in its robust perennial richness, for which no special permission is or could ever be needed. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to the Roman Church and to Christ Himself, Who has lovingly inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years. This awe-inspiring gift of tradition allows us to taste, even now, the banquet of the promised land of heaven.

Product Details

• Title: The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile
• Author: Peter Kwasniewski
• Publisher: TAN Books
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781505126648, 9781505126624, 1505126622, 1505126649
• Resource ID: LLS:9781505126648
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T15:09:10Z

About Peter Kwasniewski

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, a Thomistic theologian, liturgical scholar, and choral composer, is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and The Catholic University of America. He has taught for the International Theological Institute in Austria, the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austria Program, and Wyoming Catholic College, which he helped establish in 2006, and where he taught theology, philosophy, music, and art history until 2018; he is presently a full-time writer, editor, and public speaker. Kwasniewski has authored or edited eleven previous books.