OF all the liturgies in which the high solemnity
of the Mass is enshrined none more expresses the complex and variegated mind of Western Catholicism than that
now in use throughout the major part of Christendom. In it, as in some great
cathedral in which is gathered in one comprehensive whole,
delighting both the mind and the eye, the rich architectural genius of
several ages and hands, is to be found traces of almost every century of the
faith and life of the Church, past and
present bound together in a satisfying completeness, a reliquary worthy of its
Divine Content. It is this rite-· -of which Dr. Nairne, late Regius Professor
of Divinity at Cambridge, wrote, 'The Canon of the Roman Mass is the best of
prayers (if not, indeed, the best of all Latin compositions) in its direct, unadorned
prayerfulness' -which is followed in these pages.
Bede Frost The Meaning of Mass
Alexander Nairne Regius Professor of Divinity Cambridge
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