Team member Rita Ferrone recently won a 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Award for Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium (Rediscovering Vatican II) (Paulist Press). The judges called the book:
An interesting and highly accessible guide to the central document in liturgical reform, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. Liturgy explores the development, key principles and implementation of the CSL, and raises questions related to those principles needing further reflection in today’s church. This book would be helpful for anyone interested in Catholic liturgy, and especially valuable for parish ministers.
To read my review of the book, click here.
Congratulations Rita!
Thanks, Nick. The award was a happy surprise.
I’m glad one of the things the Catholic Press Association remarked on was that the book was interesting. Of course, “interesting” can be a weasel word (could be good or bad!) but I think they meant the subject matter is more engaging than they expected. (Maybe they wanted to counteract the assumption that a book with Latin in the title might be, uh, dull?) That’s good news.
I must share another tidbit, however. When the book first came out, I got an e-mail from a stranger who said (also in a tone of surprise) “I even found parts of it inspiring.” Well. Imagine that.