Festa Paschalia, A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, by Philip Goddard

Festa Paschalia. A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite. This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years. Describing how the first apostles and disciples, and their immediate successors, came during 33AD to celebrate an annual feast of the Resurrection, and the form which this first century celebration took. It goes on to explain the subsequent changes, elaborations, innovations and developments to the ceremonies which made them as they are today.

Author: Philip Goddard
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Published: Nov 2011
Dimensions: 152mm x 229mm.