If you bought this book before February 14, 2024, you may request a free copy corrected for errors. Please visit UbiCaritasPress dot com slash contact. L'Explication de la Messe was published at Paris in 1726 in 4 volumes. It was received with great acclamation, and has since become the classic exposition on Holy Mass. There are several translations, among them in Dutch, Italian, and Latin. This is the first English translation, and will consist of 4 or 5 volumes. This first volume contains the explanation of the prayers and ceremonies of Holy Mass in their literal, historical, and dogmatic contexts, based authoritative sources, ancient and modern, in France, the eldest daughter of the Holy Mother Church, and neighboring realms. In it, Fr. Lebrun sets out to explain the true and right worship of the God in Holy Mass, the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord, and the fount of all graces. He explains the teaching of the Church on every prayer said, the meanings of the gestures made, from the time the Priests prepares to vest, all the way through the acts of thanksgiving. He also traces the historical development of the ceremonies. In his preface, he says: "We cannot even begin to understand the true significance of the words said in Holy Mass, but by their explanation one by one, and that whatever is said ought to be based on the Fathers, on the most ancient of the writers of the Church, and on Tradition." He also dispels certain errors of those who swam in the currents of naturalism and rationalism, and got mired in the mud of Protestant and Jansenist heresies that mushroomed on the heels of the rebellions against Holy Mother Church.
