The Sacrament of Easter
Jeremy Haselock
Neither a theological study of our Redemption nor a devotional commentary of the
Cross and Resurrection, but rather an introduction to the liturgical celebration
of Holy Week and Easter, this book is written in the double conviction that the depth
of meaning of the Paschal Mystery is seriously weakened if it is not given its full
liturgical and sacramental expression, and that the Holy Week liturgy demands from
all who participate in it a more profound awareness of its biblical background and
of its central place in the Church’s life.
The journey we begin on Ash Wednesday is a unity, or rather a series of interrelated unities, controlled by the metaphor of Exodus, Passover or Transitus, which slowly but surely coalesce and intensify through Holy Week to the climax of the Easter Liturgy and the Triduum, the commemoration of the single act by which Christ passed over from death to life, the transitus Domini.
The season is a time of incomparable liturgical richness whose rites and ceremonies are an unsurpassed treasury of instruction and devotion for those who immerse themselves in them. These rites and ceremonies, rediscovered, rationalised, reformed and re-ordered, are essentially something of the most profound significance. This study, so enthusiastically received when first published, is now extensively revised and updated in this new fourth edition, fully reflecting change and reform of the liturgy in both the Anglican and the Catholic Church over the last sixty years.
Jeremy Haselock was a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England and chairman of the Times and Seasons working group which produced the liturgical material now widely used today in the celebration of Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost. A Residentiary Canon and Precentor of Norwich Cathedral, latterly serving as Vice-Dean, he was a Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and a visiting professor of Liturgics at Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary. Now in retirement he assists as an Associate Priest at St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London.
Fourth Edition, Revised
978 085244 674 4
226 pages
£15.99
