Liturgy

You may scroll down for a list of the liturgy posts on this blog, but I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce my book, Zeal For Thy House: Suffering Through Mass. The book is a compilation of many of the liturgy posts on this blog; also included are a couple of articles of mine that were published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review. The posts are organized according to topic rather than in chronological order.

It's available on Amazon in both paperback book and Kindle versions. For a substantial discount, order directly from CreateSpace and use discount codeN2PCUWJV.

Here is the description of the book:

Dr. Jay Boyd’s "Zeal for Thy House" is a collection of essays about the Mass, written for those who have experienced the pain of "bad liturgy". The essays appeared first as posts on “Philothea on Phire” blog during 2011-2013, and are a product of Dr. Boyd’s frustration with the liturgical abuse and the general irreverence she often witnessed at Mass. The essays present a reasoned and logical approach to why God cares about how we “do liturgy”, and why we should try to follow the mind of the Church where liturgy is concerned. The book contains sections entitled: “Liturgical Abuse”; “The Novus Ordo”; “The Music at Mass”; and “The Extraordinary Form of the Mass”.

But lest anyone be driven to despair over the state of the Catholic Mass, each section also includes "Glimmers of Hope", and the Epilogue reminds us that "Hope Springs Eternal". The battles to restore reverence and awe to the liturgy, and to reinstate the extraordinary form of the Mass, are tough ones to fight. Yet, it is our duty and responsibility to do so, for the good of the Church! In this book, Dr. Boyd attempts to provide tradition-minded faithful Catholics with "ammunition" for the fight, while providing some perspective on positive developments regarding the state of the liturgy as well.

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Of course you are welcome to read each post here on the blog as well!

Posts on TLM and liturgy/Liturgical Abuse

7/13  Compare and Contrast: Virility in the Mass

6/13  ZEAL Hotline for Liturgical Abuse

6/13 Zeal For Thy House

5/13  Does This Ring a Bell?

5/13  One Less Mass: A Silver Lining?

5/13  “Where Heaven Meets Earth” Video

4/13  STILL Sitting in the Back of the Bus

4/13 Mean-Spirited Bullying Bishops Redux

4/13 A Diocesan TLM Community in Lansing, MI

3/13  The Consequences of Liturgical Abuse

3/13  Choosing Not to Receive 

2/13  Liturgical Muzak Concert and Workshop in Bend

2/13  The Traditional Latin Mass in Oregon 
2/13 “Where Can We Go for the Older Form?”

1/13  Mass for Dummies: Vortex

12/12 The Altar at Christmas

11/12  Dealing with Despair over the State of the Church

11/12  Churches Are Not Concert Halls

10/12  Feel the Pain

10/12  Squelching Latin in the Mass…Even the Novus Ordo

10/12  Spanish Mass in English?

10/12  A “Sample” of What a Bishop Can Do

10/12  Mass, My Cry of Anguish, and the Year of Faith

9/12  A Priest Should Know How to Vest for Mass

9/12  Boiling Frogs, CAVE People, and Liturgical Abuse  

9/12  Illicit Concert at St. Francis

9/12  More Liturgical Abuse

9/12  Water Park Mass: A Bad Idea  

8/12  Transformation of a Sanctuary

8/12  Ann Barnhardt Nails It: What They’ve Stolen

7/12  On the Lighter Side: Attire at Mass

7/12  Liturgical Embarrassment

7/12 Priestly Vocations and the EF Mass: Southern Orders

7/12  The Mystical Significance of the Wedding Ceremony

7/12  EF Masses at the Colloquium: Heaven on Earth

7/12  Affronts to Our Rites

7/12  Cardinal Burke on the EF Mass

7/12 Tambourine Tasing!

6/12  Rites and Rubrics...For a Reason

6/12  Thoughts on Archbishop’s Homily at Eucharistic Congress

6/12  Fr. Jeremy Driscoll on Liturgical Reform

6/12  What Protestant Musicians Can Learn from the Mass

5/12  Ann Barnhardt: The Changing of the Guard and the Mass

5/12  The EF Mass Isn’t Just for Old People

5/12  Liturgical Abuse: Sweating the Small Stuff

5/12  The Sequence at Pentecost: Liturgical Hijinx

5/12  Suffering At Holy Diversity Parish

5/12  Liturgical Abuse at First Holy Communion

4/12 What Happened to “Singing the Mass”?

4/12 The Novus Ordo Should Be Outgrown

4/12 Over the Rainbow to the EF Mass

3/12 The Vortex: “Latin Anyone?”

3/12 The “Bad Ol’ Days” According to a Deacon

2/12 Altar BOYS: There’s a Reason for That

2/12 Nothing Compares with the TLM

2/12 The Battle for the TLM: Conspiracy or Coincidence?

1/12 Liturgical Rights

1/12 Just the Facts, Ma’am: A-Massing the Evidence

1/12 Sacred Liturgy and the Sanctity of Life

1/12 Wendi Wonders Whether You Care about Sacred Music

1/12 Why I Promote the EF Mass

1/12 Paving the Way for the EF Mass

1/12 How to Undermine the TLM in Your Parish

12/11  7 Reasons Why You Should NOT Go to the EF Mass

12/11 The Glass Ceiling over the Traditional Latin Mass

12/11 Yes, Virginia, There is a Traditional Latin Mass

12/11 The New Translation is a Good Start, But…

11/11 Why Yes, We HAVE Been Robbed!

10/11 New Mass, Old Mass…New Translation

10/11 Sitting in the Back of the Bus

9/11 “Let Them Eat Cake!”