This 3-credit hour course, taught asynchronously by Fr. Joseph Fessio, Th.D., designed for undergraduate students (and available to 11th graders and up), responds to the questions: What is the Liturgy? How did it develop historically? What is its relation to space, time, music, art, and the body? The primary text is Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's The Spirit of the Liturgy, which will be supplemented by substantive magisterial documents, especially the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium), the detailed historical context of which is provided in The Organic Development of the Liturgy by Dom Alcuin Reid.

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