Restoration and Organic Development of the Roman Rite

Professor László Dobszay is Leading scholar of the Early Music Department in the Institute for Musicology in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, as well as teaching at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest and being a musicologist of truly international renown.He is founder of the Schola Hungarica, with whom he has made more than fifty internationally acknowledged recordings, and is the author of The Bugnini-Liturgy and the Reform of the Reform

• Part I1. What the Roman Rite is2. The Liturgical Movement3. In the Name of the Council4. Is the Medicine called Obedience?5. Objections6. Lex Credendi7. From Ecclesia Dei to Summorum Pontificum8. One Rite Two Forms?9. The Co-existence of the two Rites10. Mixing the Rites11. The Method of the Organic ReformPart II1. Ritus, Usus, Consuetudo, Optio2. The Language of the Liturgy3. Ad Orientem4. The Divine Office5. The Calendar6. The Readings of the Mass7. The Proper Chants of the Mass8. The Sacramentary9. The Ordo Missae10. Holy WeekSummary

‘Certainly his [Dobszay's] scholarship, his candour, his ardent love of the Opus Dei, his charity and his admirable temper in the face of a reformist double standard cannot be too highly admired.'