The Heresy of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy

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Sure to be the subject of much discussion this book takes a look at the post Vatican II approach to liturgy through the eyes of a man who says the Church has lost much and gained nothing through the promulgation of the "Novus Ordo" Mass. An accomplished novelist and writer German author Martin Mosebach gives a plea for a return to the preconciliar Latin Rite giving a persuasive and compelling argument against what he sees as a jarring break in tradition. Yet there is another way to approach the Liturgy. In his foreword Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J. points out the difference between Mosebachs approach and "those who like myself the Adoremus Society andI think I can assert this with confidencePope Benedict XVI advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council but in light of the Churchs two-thousand-year tradition."