Liturgical Preludes Virgin Mary By Raphael Moss

By Raphael Moss

Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center

The encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart

revised and rehearsed with every refinement of taste and skill

the last bastion of religion

Liturgical Preludes Virgin Mary By Raphael MossBy Luis M. Martnez The liturgical year and the individual sanctification of each Catholic are intimately connected. As Archbishop Luis M. Martnez writes, The liturgical year is a mystical reproduction of the life of Jesus and a type of the interior life of souls. This is not some lofty ideal or poetic fancy; it is a summary of the power and purpose of the sacred liturgy as the school of the spiritual life; the glorification of Christ; and the prelude