Prosper Gueranger's Liturgical Year
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,184
    For those unfamiliar with this work, I highly encourage you to read it, even if in bits and pieces.

    A general introduction:
    Dom Guéranger, abbot of Solesmes from 1837-1875, was one of the leading monastics and liturgists of his generation, and his writings were highly influential both in France and abroad. He is perhaps best known today through the pages of his L'Année Liturgique - The Liturgical Year - which he began in 1841 in order to make the riches of the liturgy more widely known by the faithful. In fifteen volumes (which he did not live to complete) he follows the cycle of the liturgical year, illuminating the traditional liturgy with interpretations, commentaries, and riches collected from other liturgies both of Eastern and Western Christendom.

    An online edition in english:
    http://www.liturgialatina.org/lityear/contents.htm

    "L'Annee Liturgique" was a primary source in Tournemire's l'Orgue Mystique.
  • bgeorge77
    Posts: 190
    Yes! Nice link, thanks.
  • Jacques PerrièreJacques Perrière
    Posts: 139
    Dom Prosper Guéranger is famously known for the restoration of Gregorian chant in Solesmes (with the help of Dom Jansions, Dom Pothier and Dom Mocquereau).
    What is less known is that on a larger scale Dom Guéranger was promoting the restoration of the Roman liturgy in France (40 years after the French Revolution and suppression of the Benedictine order). The collection of books 'The Liturgical Year' was the initiator of the so-called 'Liturgical Movement'.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liturgical_Year
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_Guéranger

    Ste Thérèse of Lisieux used to read The Liturgical Year with her sisters during her childhood.


  • GuerangerFan
    Posts: 1
    The PDFs can be found here The Liturgical Year
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  • Felicity
    Posts: 77
    Dom Guéranger's work is a classic in every sense of the word. It is worth every inch of shelf space and every minute you can invest in reading it.
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