Nathan Mitchell Osb

Cult and Controversy: the Worship of the Eucharist Outside Mass (Studies in the Reformed Rites of the Church) Nathan Mitchell Osb

In the first part of this book, Father Mitchell traces the evolution within the Roman Catholic tradition of the cult of the Eucharist outside Mass, a change from holy meal to ritual drama that implied significant alterations of content, meaning, and interpretation.

The second section comments on the mandates of Vatican Council II whose call to a return to proper praxis necessitated changes in then current pastoral practice and theological interpretation.