The Holy Mass

by Adrienne von Speyr

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 1999

Overview

This meditation on the Mass by the mystic Von Speyr contains many penetrating insights, particularly about the nature of the Mass as sacrifice―of Christ, of his priest, and of every believer united in and with the entire Church―expressed with a poetic layering of concepts and images that is at once complex and lucid, dense and transparent. The meditation rewards the present-day reader’s effort with a fresh and palpable sense that the real truth of the Church’s constant re-presentation, re-enactment of Christ’s “sacrifice once offered” transcends not only the nearly half-a-century since Von Speyer’s meditation, but all time ―time which is itself sanctified precisely through the endless repetition of the Sacrament of unity that is the Holy Mass.

Key Features

• Explores the nature of the Mass as a sacrifice of Christ, the priest, and all believers
• Presents penetrating insights with a poetic layering of concepts and images
• Conveys a sense of the Mass transcending time through its constant re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice

Contents

• Editor’s Introduction
• About the Holy Mass
• The Invocation of the Holy Trinity
• The Penitential Rite
• The Introit
• The Kyrie
• The Gloria
• The Lord Be with You
• The Collect
• The Epistle
• The Gospel
• The Creed
• The Offertory
• The Washing of Hands
• The Preface
• The Canon up to the Consecration
• The Consecration
• Excursus: 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
• The Continuation of the Canon
• The Our Father
• The Preparation for Conununion
• Communion
• Concluding Prayer and Blessing

Product Details

• Title: The Holy Mass
• Author: Adrienne von Speyr
• Publisher: Ignatius
• Print Publication Date: 1999
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 101
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Mass Celebration; Meditations
• Resource ID: LLS:HOLYMASSIGN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-15T15:41:28Z

About Adrienne von Speyr

Adrienne von Speyr was a Swiss medical doctor, a convert to Catholicism, a mystic, and an author of more than sixty books on spirituality and theology. She collaborated closely with theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, her confessor for twenty-seven years, and together they founded the Community of Saint John. Among her most important works are Handmaid of the Lord, Man before God, Confession, and her commentaries on the Gospel of Saint John