James Monti - A Sense of the Sacred: Roman Catholic Worship in the Middle Ages

A SENSE OF THE SACRED

The Virgin Mary Enthroned from the Ghent Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)
Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium

Scala / Art Resource, New York

JAMES MONTI

Roman Catholic Worship in the Middle Ages

IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO

Nihil Obstat : Monsignor Francis J. McAree, S.T.D.

Imprimatur : + The Most Reverend Dennis J. Sullivan
Vicar General of the Archbishop of New York
November 27, 2012

The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are the official declaration that this book is free from doctrinal and moral error. There are no implications contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur agree with the content, opinion or statements expressed.

Cover illustration by Stephen Dudro

Cover design by Riz Boncan Marsella

2012 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco
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ISBN 978-1-58617-283-1
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To Our Lady of Good Counsel, that through her loving intercession and her example of obedience, we may attain an authentic liturgical renewal and restore the sense of the sacred by following the path of humble obedience to the Successor of Saint Peter.

Contents

PART ONE
THE SACRAMENTS

PART TWO
SACRED TIME: THE LITURGICAL YEAR

PART THREE
OTHER RITES OF THE CHURCH

Acknowledgments

I wish to express my gratitude to the staff of the Corrigan Memorial Library of Saint Josephs Seminary in Yonkers, New York, for making available to me their outstanding collection of books and periodicals. I am especially grateful both to them and to the staff of the Irvington Public Library in Irvington, New York, for obtaining numerous interlibrary loans of books and journal articles essential to the completion of this work. I also want to thank the staff of the Vatican Library (the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) and, in particular, Sister Catherine M. Clarke, F.S.E., formerly of the library, for graciously providing the page reproductions I needed for my research from two sixteenth-century Spanish missals (those of Palencia and Seville) in the librarys Barberini Collection. I am deeply grateful to Father Luke Sweeney, vocations director of the Archdiocese of New York, and to Mrs. Catherine Kolpak, managing editor of the periodical for which I write, Magnificat , for having contacted the Vatican Library on my behalf in 2006 and 2007 respectively, as well as for obtaining for me a number of books recently published in Rome and Spain pertaining to liturgical history. I am likewise grateful to both of them for their invaluable assistance in helping me to contact many of the publishers whose works are quoted in the present book. Finally, I wish to thank in a special manner Gail Gavin for her highly professional, dedicated, and patient copy editing in preparing my manuscript for publication.

Credits

The author gratefully acknowledges the following publishers and institutions for granting permission to quote from and translate excerpts from their publications or from documents in their digital collections.

Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, for granting permission to quote from and translate excerpts from the following Brepols publications:

Brire, Maurice; Louis Maries, S.J.; and B.-Ch. Mercier, O.S.B., eds. Hippolyte de Rome sur les Benedictions dIsaac, de Jacob et de Mose . Patrologia orientalis 27, fasc. 1-2. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1954.

Chibnall, Marjorie, ed. and trans. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis . Vol. 4, Books VII and VIII . Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973. Oxford University Press.

Costello Publishing Company, Northport, New York. Excerpts from Vatican Council II , vol. 1, The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents , edited by Rev. Austin Flannery, O.P., copyright 2007, Costello Publishing Company, Inc., Northport, N.Y., are used by permission of the publisher, all rights reserved. No part of these excerpts may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout express permission of Costello Publishing Company, Inc.

Davril, A., O.S.B., and T. M. Thibodeau, eds. Guillelmi Duranti: Rationale divinorum officiorum IIV . Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis 140. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1995.

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Dessain, C. S., ed. The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman . Vol. 11, Littlemore to Rome, October 1845 to December 1846 . London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961. Oxford University Press.

Diercks, G. F., ed. Sancti Cypriani episcopi epistularium . Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina 3b. Sancti Cypriani episcopi opera, pt. 3, 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1994.

Douteil, Heribertus, C.S.Sp., ed. Iohannis Beleth: Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis . Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis 41a. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1976.

Dumas, A., O.S.B., ed. Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis . Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina 159. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1981.

Franceschini, A., and R. Weber, eds. Itinerarium Egeriae . In Itineraria et Alia geographia . Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina 175. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1965.

Frere, Walter Howard, ed. The Use of Sarum . 2 vols. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1898-1901. Oxford University Press.

Haacke, Hrabanus, O.S.B., ed. Ruperti Tuitiensis: Liber de divinis officiis Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis 7. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1967.

Jugie, Martin, ed. and trans. Homlies mariales byzantines: Textes grecs dits et traduits en latin . Vol. 2. Patrologia orientalis 19, fasc. 3. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1925.

Knowles, David, and Christopher N. L. Brooke, eds. and trans. The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc . Rev. ed. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon, 2002. Oxford University Press.

Lawson, Christopher M., ed. Sancti Isidori episcopi Hispalensis: De ecclesiasticis officiis . Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina 113. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1989.

Legg, John Wickham, ed. The Sarum Missal, Edited from Three Early Manuscripts . Oxford: Clarendon, 1916. Oxford University Press.

Maskell, William, ed. Monumenta ritualia ecclesiae Anglicanae . 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1882. Oxford University Press.

Munier, C., ed. Concilia Galliae, A. 314A. 506 . Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina 148. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1963.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. Excerpts from the following publications have been quoted and translated by permission of Oxford University Press.

Renoux, Athanase, ed. and trans. Le codex Armnien Jrusalem 121 . Vol. 2, Edition compare du texte et de deux autres manuscrits . Patrologia orientalis 36, fasc. 2. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1971.

Young, Karl. The Drama of the Medieval Church . 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1933. Oxford University Press.

The author likewise gratefully acknowledges the following publishers, institutions, and individuals for granting permission to quote from and translate excerpts from their publications or documents in their collections, which are listed in full in the footnotes and the bibliography:

Aarhus University Press , Aarhus, Denmark

Academic Press Fribourg (Editions Universitaires Fribourg), Universite de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland