Celebration of the Word - Softcover

Affirms Vatican II's call to the Christian community to remember its rots as a biblical Church, built on the Word of God.

If the Eucharist is central to the Mass, why proclaim the Word of God at all? In Celebration of the Word Father Deiss affirms Vatican II's call to the Christian community to remember its roots as a biblical Church, built on the Word of God. He comments on the richness and the imperfections of the Lectionary (ch.1), considers the relationship between the celebration of the Word and the celebration of the Covenant (ch. 2), and then comments on the role of the Responsorial Psalm (ch. 3), the Homily (ch. 4), the Prayer of the Faithful (ch. 5), participation in the celebration of the Word (ch. 6), and the objects, places, and rites which make up the ritual environment (ch. 7) of this celebration.