On the Holy Mass

“The Sacrifice of the Mass is the Sacrifice of the Cross itself; and in it we must see our Lord nailed to the Cross; and offering up his Blood for our sins, to his Eternal Father. And yet we must not expect to find, in the several portions of the Mass, all the detailed circumstances of the Passion, as some authors have pretended to do, when giving us methods for assisting at it.” (Dom Prosper Guéranger, excerpt from On the Holy Mass.)

This book is an explanation of the prayers and ceremonies of Holy Mass (from beginning to end) in a clear, yet profound, way, taken from notes made at the conferences of Dom Prosper Guéranger abbot of Solesmes.