129 The True Origin and Essence of the Catholic Mass
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Confused by (and tired of) all the arguments about the Mass? Join Matthew Leonard and liturgical theologian Dr. David Fagerberg as they lift the veil and reveal the deeper currents of the Catholic Mass.
It's the beautiful essence of the liturgy that no one else is talking about...but they should be.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.3 | What is the essence of the liturgy? |
| 0:16.0 | A lot of digital ink has been spilled and YouTube air expel on the topic of liturgy, |
| 0:20.4 | but most of it never really seems to penetrate what's at the core of our worship of God. So I invited a liturgical expert |
| 0:27.1 | onto the Art of Catholic Podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | His name is Dr. David Fagerberg, |
| 0:30.4 | and he's a recently retired professor |
| 0:31.9 | of liturgical studies at the University of Notre Dame, |
| 0:34.9 | who's a Mundeline Seminary previous to that. |
| 0:37.5 | His list of academic degrees is quite long |
| 0:40.1 | and includes Augsburg College, Luther Northwestern, St. John's, and Yale, where he did his doctorate. |
| 0:46.2 | So he's got all the letters after his name and then some. But Dr. Fagerberg is also the author |
| 0:50.8 | of several fantastic books, including liturgical dogmatics, liturgical mysticism, and liturgical |
| 0:57.5 | asceticism, all of which I happily own and have been reading over the last few months. In fact, |
| 1:02.4 | I have them right here. I'll just show you guys for those of you who are watching on YouTube. |
| 1:06.3 | This is what they look like. |
| 1:08.4 | They are great books. |
| 1:10.1 | I think the latest one is the Turgical Dog Maddocks. |
| 1:13.6 | If I'm not mistaken. |
| 1:15.3 | And there's one more since. |
| 1:20.9 | There's always the Turgical Cosmos. |
| 1:23.3 | How did I know about this one? |
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