The Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger

[whosebob]

Is anyone here familiar with the work The Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger, a Benedictine monk who lived in the 19th Century and helped to restore the Benedictine tradtition in France?

From a distance, it seems to have been a tremendous literary effort made by one man in love with the Jesus to explain the liturgy of the Roman Church – the Latin-English edition (newly re-printed) consists of 15-volumes and is over 7,300 pages in length!

But is it worth spending much or any time reading it (and spending the money to buy it)? Obviously, Gueranger’s views and devotion were anchored in the “old” (to us post V2 Catholics) calendar and rites, but that shouldn’t matter too much, right?

How would it compare to the modern multi-volume In Conversation With God published by Scepter.

What other “tools” would I need to have on my desk in order to read through this work? A 1962 Missal? Anything else?

Thanks for your insights.

In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

 

[Catholicguy]

Is anyone here familiar with the work The Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger, a Benedictine monk who lived in the 19th Century and helped to restore the Benedictine tradtition in France?

I read it daily. It is amasing, bracing, educational, inspiring and incomparable.

But is it worth spending much or any time reading it (and spending the money to buy it)? Obviously, Gueranger’s views and devotion were anchored in the “old” (to us post V2 Catholics) calendar and rites, but that shouldn’t matter too much, right?

It is worth more than 3 times what I paid for it. You’ll never regret paying for this collection.
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What other “tools” would I need to have on my desk in order to read through this work? A 1962 Missal? Anything else?

Just your Sensus Catholicus which will be nurtured by this collection.