Any books explaining the Tridentine liturgy?

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A parish close by started offering the extraordinary form of the Mass recently. I’ve been attending, and attempting to follow along with a Latin-English missalette provided by the parish. I’m 22 years old, so this form of the Mass is more or less brand new to me. I would like very much to become as familiar with this form as I am with the ordinary form. As it is, I’m trying to figure out when to sit and stand and kneel, and when to respond to the priest with the choir (if ever…), and generally how to participate in the Mass.

The missalette is actually very good, but it’s published by Angelus Press, which is affiliated with SSPX. So I don’t really want to support them. I know that Baronius Press publishes a daily missal, which I plan to buy in the future.

But does anyone know of any good, orthodox, non-schismatic books explaining the Tridentine liturgy? Something from before the Council, perhaps, that was a popular guide to the liturgy? Both from a practical (what-to-do) perspective, and from a theological (why-we-do-it) perspective?

That would be *very *helpful. Thanks!
 
Lots of good material is available. One classic would be Fr. Adrian Fortescue’s, The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy.

The all time scholarly history would be Fr J. Jungmann’s The Mass of the Roman Rite, said to have been a favorite with Pius XII. Jungmann was one of the experts who helped plan the changes. I’m not a fan of those in any sense, but his pre-Vatican II scholarship towered above that of other writers.
 
Two books come to mind:

THIS IS THE MASS by Fulton Sheen.

THE INCREDIBLE CATHOLIC MASS published by TAN, though I can’t think of the author.
 
justbeinfrank said:
But does anyone know of any good, orthodox, non-schismatic books explaining the Tridentine liturgy? Something from before the Council, perhaps, that was a popular guide to the liturgy? Both from a practical (what-to-do) perspective, and from a theological (why-we-do-it) perspective?
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From a “why-we-do-it” perspective:
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Explained by Rev. Martinus von Cochem, O.S.F.
 
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