The Spirit of the Liturgy Chesterton By Louis Bouyer | Edited

By Louis Bouyer | Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Heintz

Father Leonard Klein

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“The Art of Not Yielding to Despair”

The Spirit of the Liturgy Chesterton By Louis Bouyer | EditedBy Romano Guardini The Spirit of the Liturgy, first published in English in 1930, is a profound meditation on the liturgy as the lex orandi (from the proverb, lex orandi, lex credendithe law of praying is the law of believing). To an age where the liturgy is often reduced to something therapeutic, self directed, or meant to primarily benefit the participant, Guardini provides a powerful reminder of the true purpose of the liturgy: In the liturgy God