Bøger af Peter Kwasniewski

In quest'opera ampia e accuratamente argomentata, il dottor Kwasniewski dimostra che la Sacra Tradizione è il principio guida di tutta l'autentica liturgia cristiana, che ha origine da Cristo e dai suoi apostoli ed è guidata dallo Spirito Santo per tutta la vita della Chiesa. I principali tratti identificativi del rito romano classico - e di tutti i riti tradizionali, orientali e occidentali - sono assenti dal Novus Ordo, il che lo estrania dalla loro compagnia e rende impossibile chiamarlo "rito romano". L'unico modo per superare questa frattura è un pieno ritorno all'eredità tridentina - il rito romano nella sua pienezza - per il quale non è né potrebbe mai essere necessario uno speciale permesso."Peter Kwasniewski non è solo un baluardo di erudizione, ma anche un uomo dall'arguzia provocatoria". -Martin Mosebach"Opera al tempo stesso liturgica, storica, teologica e spirituale, Il Rito Romano di Ieri e di Domani assicura all'autore un posto di primo piano tra gli studiosi della Rivoluzione che, dal 1969, ha opposto il ritus modernus di Paolo VI al rito della Tradizione della Chiesa latina". -Roberto de Mattei"Quest'opera è una splendida introduzione alle questioni chiave del dibattito liturgico, nel necessario contesto storico dello sviluppo liturgico e della riforma del 1960. Ne raccomando di cuore la lettura". -Dr. Joseph Shaw"In questo libro appassionato, il dottor Kwasniewski propone uno stringente insieme di argomenti a favore del Rito Romano tradizionale. Egli guida con mano sicura il lettore fra questioni oggetto di frequente dibattito: la natura delle liturgie "tradizionali" d'Oriente e d'Occidente, la liturgia della Settimana Santa ante 1955, lo status del Novus Ordo quale "forma" del Rito Romano, il ruolo di papa Paolo VI nelle riforme degli anni '60 - e molto altro ancora". -Stuart Chessman"Logico e lirico, questo volume è una profonda riflessione sul significato della tradizione tanto in generale quanto nella liturgia romana in particolare. Anche se non tutti possono essere d'accordo con le sue conclusioni, questo è un libro che nessuno che nessuno che abbia a cuore il bene della Chiesa dovrebbe ignorare". -Pr. Thomas Crean, O.P.Il dott. PETER KWASNIEWSKI ha insegnato teologia, filosofia, musica e storia dell'arte in varie università dal 1998 al 2018. È altresì cantore e compositore, ha diretto cori dal 1994 a oggi, e la sua musica sacra per coro è stata eseguita in tutto il mondo. Dal 2018 scrive e tiene conferenze a tempo pieno in difesa della Fede cattolica tradizionale, specialmente in ambito liturgico. I suoi libri e articoli sono apparsi in oltre venti lingue.

More is at stake in the music we listen to or perform than most people are aware. In this vivacious and challenging work, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski--a philosopher, theologian, composer, conductor, and singer--explains why the great classical music of Western civilization is morally and intellectually good for us, as well as why certain other forms of music can actually be harmful. Kwasniewski then offers a defense of the magnificent treasury of sacred music in the Latin-rite Catholic Church and shows how well-suited it is to divine worship, especially the incomparable art form known as Gregorian chant. Questioned and abandoned in recent tumultuous decades, this outstanding heritage of beauty deserves to be restored for profound theological and spiritual reasons, a restoration our times are at last beginning to see as old prejudices fade away. Kwasniewski issues a poignant crie de coeur in favor of giving the glorious sacred music of our tradition its rightful place in every Roman Catholic church on earth. No genuine liturgical renewal or deep Eucharistic revival can occur until this happens: music is that important. Finally, Kwasniewski shows how silence is as valuable as--indeed, at times, more valuable than--even the greatest music, precisely because music at its best opens the way to encountering a reality that transcends all we can say or sing. Written to be accessible to the non-specialist, Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence: Three Gifts of God for Liturgy and for Life will benefit all Catholics, other Christians, and even aesthetically curious nonbelievers who wish to explore the art of music in general, its role in human life, its effects on morality, and its inspired and inspiring function in religion. Kwasniewski's wide-ranging erudition and sound argumentation provide essential musical guidance for clergy, musicians, teachers, and parents.

This powerhouse of a book masterfully vindicates the Church's rich teachings on matrimony, the priesthood, and religious life.

"Ever since Paul VI imposed a new set of liturgical books, Roman Catholic faithful have suffered the effects of a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors. But man is not master over divine liturgy; rather, all of us are called to be stewards of it, from the lowest-ranking layman to the pope himself. Dr. Peter Kwasnieski argues that sacred Tradition is the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy, which originates from Christ and is guided by the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church. The prominent identifying traits of the classical Roman Rite--and indeed of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western--are absent from the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it 'the Roman rite.' To respond to this crisis of rupture, we must return fully to the Tridentine Rite, the Roman rite in its robust perennial richness, for which no special permission is or could ever be needed. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to the Roman Church and to Christ Himself, Who has lovingly inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years. This awe-inspiring gift of tradition allows us to taste, even now, the banquet of the promised land of heaven."--Publisher's website

In this bold and powerful book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski marshals an irrefutable defense of the Church's historical teaching that her liturgical ministries - including those of lector and altar server - should be performed exclusively by men.

A powerful and timely book by scholar Peter Kwasniewski that exalts the divine gift of the Blessed Sacrament, which can never be too much adored, too much loved, too much cared for, or too much sacrificed for.

In this pivotal book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski offers an essential treatise on the question of obedience in the Church-whence it derives and how it is to be properly and prudently understood and lived.

The life and thought of John Henry Newman were permeated with the ceremonies and hallowed texts of Christian liturgies, which he celebrated for over six decades. The "ordinances" of the Church, her rich panoply of rites handed down through the centuries, are, for Newman, doors or windows into the heavenly society for which we were created. As Newman says in a number of places, we are given our time on earth to begin to live, through personal prayer and corporate worship, the life of the blessed in heaven. This volume gathers over seventy texts from all periods of Newman's long career. Forty-four of Newman's incomparably great sermons are included in full. That Newman deserves his reputation as one of the finest spiritual writers of modern times and the greatest prose stylist of nineteenth-century England is abundantly demonstrated in these spirited and subtle reflections on the duty of reverence, the benefits of ritual, and the privilege of divine worship.