{"product_id":"christian-life-and-worship-s-j-gerald-ellard-9781965303528","title":"Christian Life and Worship","description":"\u003cp\u003eFr. Gerald Ellard's \u003cem\u003eChristian Life and Worship\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1933 with a last and expanded edition in 1950, is being republished today for its value as a once-popular and revelatory document of the Liturgical Movement's middle phase, between the original phase inaugurated by Dom Guéranger (who emphasized education in existing, inherited rites) and the radical phase of the postconciliar \"reform\" (which rewrote all of the rites according to modern presuppositions).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the one hand, Fr. Ellard movingly sings the praises of the traditional (Tridentine) sacramental rites as practiced in the Roman Church at the time of the book's composition, drawing on Scripture and the Church Fathers to illuminate their meaning and increase the faithful's fruitful participation. In keeping with the movement's appeal to the Christian imagination, the chapters are adorned with simple but expressive drawings by a well-known artist of the time, Adé de Bethune. The running commentaries on the texts of the Mass and the other sacraments are unquestionably edifying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other hand, the book is filled with confident historical assumptions and assertions that would, later on, come under intense critical scrutiny and often be refuted by better research-alas, not before they had been enthusiastically adopted in wave after wave of reforms culminating in the creation of new rites in the 1960s, which marked so radical a departure from tradition that even a relatively \"avant garde\" book like Ellard's became practically irrelevant overnight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristian Life and Worship\u003c\/em\u003e thus serves as a reminder both of the Liturgical Movement's often noble aims and of the catastrophic effects of reformatory zeal unchecked by profound respect for what is given and received.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. J. Gerald Ellard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1965303528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965303528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OS Justi Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d","brand":"S. J. Gerald Ellard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47931147845887,"sku":"9781965303528","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49c55edf-0e5e-4a3e-833c-1ccb5888a7a8.jpg?v=1766346776","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christian-life-and-worship-s-j-gerald-ellard-9781965303528","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}