CONTENTS Preface .....................................................................................................V Introduction to the New Edition by John F. Baldovin, S.J. ........... VII Abbreviations .................................................................................... XIII PART I THE OVER–ALL HISTORICAL PICTURE The Defeat of Teutonic Arianism and the Revolution in Religious Culture in the Early Middle Ages ..............................1 1. The Contrast Between Early Christian and Early Medieval Religious Culture ....................................................2 2. Greek Influences and Parallels ................................................9 3. Battle-Grounds and Spheres of Influence in the West .......15 4. The Defensive Battle against Teutonic Arianism and Its Immediate Reaction ..........................................................23 5. Fides Trinitatis .........................................................................32 6. ‘Christ Our God’ .....................................................................38 7. Christus Secundum Carnem .................................................48 8. Christ, the Church, and the Sacraments ..............................58 9. The State of Liturgical Life on the Eve of the Reformation ..................................................................64 10. Liturgical Life in the Baroque Period ...................................80 11. Conservation and Change in the Liturgy ............................89 PART II SEPARATE HISTORICAL PROBLEMS 1. The Origin of Matins ............................................................105 2. The Pre-Monastic Morning Hour in the Gallo-Spanish Region in the 6th Century ...................................................122 I. Exhortatio Matutina ..........................................................124 II. Evidence from Extra-Liturgical Sources Concerning the Morning Hour in South Gaul and Spain ....................129 III. Matins in the Mozarabic Liturgy ..................................138 IV. The Morning Hour in the Roman Liturgy ...................151 3. Essays in the Structure of the Canonical Hours ...............157 (1) Psalmody as the Introduction to the Hours ................157 (2) The Scope of the Lessons in the Office .........................162 (3) Genuflexion between Psalm and Oration....................172 (4) The Kyrie Eleison of the Preces .....................................180 (5) The Lord’s Prayer in the Roman Breviary ...................191 4. Why was Cardinal Quiñonez’ Reformed Breviary a Failure? ................................................................................200 5. The Extended Celebration of Epiphany in the Roman Missal ........................................................................214 6. The Forty Hours Devotion and the Holy Sepulchre ........223 7. The Octave of Pentecost and Public Penance in the Roman Liturgy ......................................................................238 8. The Weekly Cycle in the Liturgy ........................................251 (1) Easter Week in Early Times ...........................................252 (2) Alcuin’s Week-Day Masses ............................................254 (3) The Trinitarian Scheme and Veneration of Saints.......258 (4) Late Attempts at a Solution ...........................................265 (5) Conclusions and Prospects ............................................272 9. Accepit Panem .......................................................................277 10. The Basic Shape of the Mass ...............................................282 11. Fermentum: A Symbol of Church Unity and Its Observance in the Middle Ages ....................................287 12. From Patrocinium to the Act of Consecration ..................295 13. The Fundamental Idea of Sacred Heart Devotion in the Context of the Church’s Prayer ..........................................314 PART III THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LITURGY AND KERYGMA 1. Christianity—Conscious or Unconscious? ........................325 2. The Liturgy, a School of Faith .............................................334 3. Liturgy and Congregational Singing .................................345 4. Liturgy and Church Art .......................................................357 5. Pastoral Care—Key to the History of the Liturgy ............368 6. Pastoral Care and Parish Worship ......................................381 7. A ‘Feast of the Church’ .........................................................387 8. Easter Christianity ................................................................407 Index ....................................................................................................417.