Meditations Before Mass

Msgr. Romano Guardini

translated from the German by
Elinor Castendyk Briefs

1. Foreword
2. Sacred Bearing
   • Stillness
   • Silence and the Word
   • Silence and Hearing
   • Composure
   • Composure and Action
   • Composure and Participation
   • The Holy Place
   • The Altar Threshold
   • The Altar: Table
   • Holy Day
   • The Holy Day and the Sacred Hour
   • The Sacred Act
   • The Revelatory Word
   • The Executory Word
   • The Word of Praise
   • The Word of Entreaty
   • The Congregation and Injustice Rectified
   • The Congregation and the Church
   • Hindrance: Habit
   • Hindrance: Sentimentality
   • Hindrance: Human Nature
3. The Essence of the Mass
   • Prefatory Note
   • The Institution
   • The Memorial
   • The Memorial of the New Covenant
   • Reality
   • Hour and Eternity
   • Mimicry or Liturgical Form
   • Christ's Offering of Self
   • Encounter and Feast
   • Truth and the Eucharist
   • The Mass and the New Covenant
   • The Mass and Christ's Return

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