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This is a special discounted price for a bundle of these two programs:

Understanding the New Translation of the Roman Missal

by Msgr. Michael Magee, S.S.L., S.T.D., S.T.L. 

and

The History of the Mass

by Fr. John F. Baldovin, S.J., Ph.D. 

With this order you will receive, free of charge, a detailed Electronic Study Guide for each program. With your confirmation email, you will receive a link that will take you to these Electronic Study Guides, which include outlines for each lecture, review questions and suggested readings for further study. The link to access these Electronic Study Guides will also be included on the case of your CDs or DVDs. You are allowed to print up to 7 copies of each guide. Simply click on the link, or type it into your browser, to access the file.

About Your Presenter

John F. Baldovin, S.J. has been teaching in university and seminary settings for the past 28 years. He is currently Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He has taught at Fordham University and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Fr. Baldovin worked with the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) from 1994-2002. He is past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the international ecumenical Societas Liturgica. He is currently president of the International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and the Liturgy.

His most recent books are Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation: Understanding the Mass (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) and Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics(Liturgical Press, 2008).

About Your Presenter

Reverend Monsignor Michael Kevin Magee, S.S.L., S.T.D., S.T.L. is currently chair of the Systematic Theology department as well as associate professor of Systematic Theology and Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania. Msgr. Magee earned his Bachelor’s degree at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. In 1991, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia after earning his M.Div and M.A. at the Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. From 1998 to 2007, Msgr. Magee served as an Official at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome. Msgr. Magee has written several articles, including “From the Bible to the Lectionary of the Holy Mass: Norms and Principles” and “Preparation for the New English Translation of the Roman Missal”.

Topic Titles

• What Kinds of Texts are These? How Did We Get Here?
• "And with your spirit" and the Introductory Rites
• Introductory, Part II, and the Liturgy of the Word
• The Liturgy of the Eucharist up to the Preface
• The Roman Canon, Part I
• The Roman Canon, Part II
• The Eucharistic Prayer after the Consecration
• Eucharistic Prayers II-IV
• The Communion Rite and the Conclusion of Mass

• Why Study the History of the Liturgy?
• The Earliest Liturgies in the Didache and Justin Martyr
• The Beginnings of the Eucharistic Prayer
• The Development of the Entrance Rites and the Liturgy of the Word
• The Classic Eucharistic Prayers
• The Byzantine Liturgy
• The Roman Mass in the Middle Ages: Liturgy of the Word
• The Roman Mass in the Middle Ages: Liturgy of the Eucharist
• The Roman Mass in the Middle Ages: Medieval Developments in Mass
• The Challenge of the Protestant Reformation
• The Catholic Response
• Liturgical Reform in the 18th-20th Centuries