The collected papers given at the Fourteenth Fota International Liturgical Conference, held in Cork, Ireland, in 2023, are now available for pre-order from Smenos Publications. The topic of the conference is the centrality of the concept of sacrifice in understanding the Eucharistic liturgy, and is treated from various Biblical, theological, liturgical and historical perspectives, ranging from how the Mass fulfils the sacrifices of the Old Testament, to aspects of Joseph Ratzinger’s theology of the Eucharist, to the reform of the offertory in the Mass, and to the effects of modern liturgical reform on ritual itself. These proceedings are an important contribution to the ongoing post-conciliar recovery of the Church’s perennial teaching on the sacrifice of the Mass, a teaching deeply rooted in both Scripture and tradition. The papers have been edited by our own Matthew Hazell, who is also one of the contributors.
Foreword (Matthew P. Hazell)
- “Christ our Passover Lamb” (1 Corinthians 5:7): Continuity, Completion, Newness—Old Testament Fulfilment in Eucharistic Sacrifice (Joseph Briody)
- Sacrificium Patriarchae nostri Abrahae: The Aqedah in the Bible and the Canon of the Mass (Dieter Böhler SJ)
- Christ’s Death as a Sacrifice of Atonement (Serafino M. Lanzetta)
- The Sacrifice of the Mass in the New Testament (Thomas Lane)
- The Heart, Sacrifice, and Koinonia in the Eucharistic Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI (Peter J. McGregor)
- The Idea of the Holy Mass as Sacrifice in Joseph Ratzinger and Matthias Joseph Scheeben (Sven Leo Conrad FSSP)
- Why does Participation of the Faithful in the Eucharist require their physical Presence (during Mass)? (Michael Stickelbroeck)
- The Importance of the offertorium as an Integral Part of Eucharistic Sacrifice: The Offertory as a Challenge to Liturgical Reforms in History (Manfred Hauke)
- The Reform of the orationes super oblata in the Proper of Time of the 1970/2008 Missale Romanum (Matthew P. Hazell)
- Sacred Liturgy and the Ritual Process (D. Vincent Twomey SVD)
