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Here is a brief introduction why and how we present some text pagess in ENGLISH LANGUAGE together with GERMAN LANGUAGE texts in the same page.

Approx. half of our titles are in German Language, including names of collections, sets, subsets, Biographic Records etc. Therefore, we decided to leave all related Webpages in German Language. And where adequate to content of our Media / eBooks, of course we introduced such Webpages in English Language or French Language.

What is Liturgy and what are Liturgical Studies, here is an explanation we like:

“…Dom Guéranger explains how the official prayer of the church is the most agreeable to God and the most powerful, since it is inspired by the Holy Spirit who resides in the Church and whom Christ has sent to His Spouse in order that He might teach s to pray as we should.
Liturgy is thus Christ’s prayer continued in the Church, which renews His mysteries each year and renders them present to us. Christ is therefore the object of Liturgy……

In addition, poetry has its particular role to play during the unfolding of this great drama. First of all, it inspires Liturgy with its most beautiful Old and New Testament Canticles. Secondly, it provides the melodies most worthy of such text.” (3)

The Benedictine Abbey in Solesmes, France (our comment; this is a Benedictine Monastery, remember? Monks are there, not Nuns), is the world centre in Gregorian chant. This Monastery is over 1,000 years old and suffered – also – the consequences that all Monasteries (and especially Convents) around 1805 (Secularisation) had to endure.

This Monastery was then reinstated in 1833 during the so-called July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe d’Orléans from 1830 to 1848 (see more at HISTORY / La Caricature).

Guéranger (see above) was very committed to the ‘rebirth’ of Solesmes Abbey (Monastery), finally he became its Abbé.

Back to Liturgy, here we introduced Solesmes Abbey because it is an important Benedictine Monastery in Europe.

And we are unaware of any other description of Liturgy as beautiful as the words above from Abbé Guéranger describing Liturgy as the highest, most intimate – spiritually – unity with God, at least trying to get near God as closest as possible.

Now, we continue in German language with some brief Author / title listings ***:

16th Century:
Cochlaeus, Johannes, Defensio ceremoniarum Ecclesiae adversus errores
Sixtus Papa, V., Indulgenz und Ablaß der Coronen unsers Herren Jesu

17th Century:
Below (also in 18th Century listing) you’ll see some anonymous titles; would you like to ‘unmask’ the writer? Over the boards, we have hundreds of anonymous titles (including other collections!), waiting to ‘unmask’ the writer(s);
anon., Dienstägige Andacht Zu der Heil. Anna, Absonderlich so (1696)
anon., FastenSpiegel In welchem die Stationes vnnd Ablaß, die (1672)
anon., Geistliche Fasten-Speiß : Damit ein bueßfertiger Mensch (1664)
anon., Englisches Je Länger je Lieber, Oder Neun-Erchtägige (1739)
Arnaud, Claude, Thesauri sacrorum rituum epitome : continens selecta
Bader, Reginald, Unverwelckliche Rosen oder wunderbarliche und
Johannes de Carthagena, Zweintzig schöner außführlicher Concept, uber der

18th Century:
Below (also in 19th Century listing) you’ll see some anonymous titles; would you like to ‘unmask’ the writer? Over the boards, we have hundreds of anonymous titles (including other collections!), waiting to ‘unmask’ the writer(s);
anon., Englisches Je Länger je Lieber, Oder Neun-Erchtägige (1739)
anon., Geistliche Fasten-Speiß : Damit ein bueßfertiger Mensch (1664)
anon., FastenSpiegel In welchem die Stationes vnnd Ablaß, die (1672)
Boudon, Henry M. Andacht zu den neun Chören der hh. Englen / erstlich 1687

19th Century: (two titles):
anon., Andachtsübungen zum heil. Johann von Nepomuk nebst (1823)
Weinzierl, Franz Joseph (Übers.), Das Gesangbuch der heiligen römisch-katholischen

Liturgical works from a significant Convent library,
originally printed in the 17th & 18th Centuries.
54 writers
181 Titel (many titles are written anonymously)
181 ebooks
ca.32.910 Full text pages
electronic Bibliographic records are available

Upon request, we can compile author / title lists for you.
Further information can be found in our SHOP.

Notes:
(3) Dom Pierre Combe, Justine Ward and Solesmes, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 1987, p. 131
Quanatites of writers / ebooks / full text pages etc. are approximately information.
* Information is subject to change at any time and without notice.
** “Title” means “bibliographic unit”, i.e., one title contains the content of at least one “physical” printed volume. However, depending on the original work, “title” can also contain contents of two or more ‘physical’ original books and / or journals or magazines.
*** The short titles listed in our examples above for each work are, of course, listed in the bibliographical title data with partly extensive long titles, related to its original wording,