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Sunday Mass Readings
A valuable interpretative aide for seeing how specific passages of Scripture are used in the Church's liturgy. Often the way Old Testament and New Testament texts are associated in the liturgy suggest creative interpretative options and possibilities.

The Bible and the Liturgy
A study guide to the classic work by Cardinal Jean Danielou, S.J. Prepared by Michael Hahn of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

 Biblical Texts Related to the Catholic Mass
A helpful introduction, by Father Felix Just, S.J., of Loyola Marymount University.

 The Sacraments and the Mystery of Salvation
An important article on the relationship between Scripture, the Church and the Sacraments. By Cardinal Jean Danielou, S.J. Quote: "The sacraments are simply the continuation in the era of the Church of God's acts in the Old Testament and the New. This is the proper significance of the relationship between the Bible and the liturgy. The Bible is a sacred history; the liturgy is a sacred history."

The Liturgy and the Word of God
The proceedings of a Congress held in Strasbourg in 1958 that included some of the greats of the liturgical reform movement. Includes essays by Bouyer, Jounel, Danielou, von Balthasar and more. In addition, be sure to read the congress' conclusions. A quote: "It is not enough to say that the Bible occupies a privileged place in the liturgical celebration. It plays such a fundamental role that without the Bible there would be no liturgy. We cannot enter profoundly into the liturgical celebration if we ignore sacred history. No liturgical progress is possible without the Biblical education of clergy and faithful alike."

The Liturgy Speaks God's Word, Not Ours
By Father Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B. Must reading. Published in the Adoremus Journal.
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How Does Music Express the Word of God, the Vision of God?
On the relationship between the Incarnation, the written Word of God, and Church singing. By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Published in the Adoremus Journal.

 Norms for the Translation of Biblical Texts for Use in the Liturgy
A 1995 statement by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

 Old Testament Paradigms for New Testament Worship
A good treatment by Walter Maier, a Lutheran scholar. A quote: "Worship deals with the changeless God who has acted in the past, who continues to act in the present, and who will act in the future, as His Word makes clear." (pdf files, requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

 Vertical Typology and Christian Worship
Horace D. Hummel's contribution to a symposium on worship hosted by the Lutheran Concordia Theological Seminary. A quote: "The prayers introducing the Sanctus emphasize that, if the angels praise God without ceasing, what they do is the telos toward which everything else tends. Singing the Sanctus will not someday be replaced by something else. They are words on loan from the heavenly choirs, and give us a sampling of what will occupy us throughout eternity. But already now they allow us to discern the intimate link between the worship we offer and the liturgy of eternity. Our present worship is a sort of apprenticeship for what is to come. Our faces are turned toward God, not toward society. Any instrumental approach to the liturgy, e.g., for outreach or for catechesis, misunderstands the doxological essence of what a vertical typology can teach us, that it is not primarily intended to edify man but to contemplate and thank the Triune God and what the Son came down to do 'for us men and for our salvation.'" (pdf files, requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)