Catholic Mass For Dummies

Part I: The Lord Be with You: Welcome to Mass.

Chapter 1: Understanding the Mass.

Chapter 2: The Foundations of Mass.

Chapter 3: The Liturgical Year.

Chapter 4: Meet the Players: Liturgical Ministers.

Part II: Forms of Catholic Worship.

Chapter 5: Ordinary Form of the Mass.

Chapter 6: Extraordinary Form: Traditional Latin Mass.

Chapter 7: Variations in the Ordinary Form.

Chapter 8: Extending the Mass: Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharistic Devotions.

Chapter 9: Eastern Catholic Divine Liturgy.

Chapter 10: Other Catholic Rites.

Part III: Tools of the Trade.

Chapter 11: Liturgical Books.

Chapter 12: Liturgical Vestments.

Chapter 13: Liturgical Vessels, Altar Linens, and Artifacts.

Chapter 14: Architecture, Art, and Music.

Part IV: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 15: Ten Special Places of Eucharistic Miracles.

Chapter 16: Ten Saintly Commentaries on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Part V: Appendixes.

Appendix A: The Mass in Latin, English, and Spanish.

Appendix B: Revisions in the English Translation of the Mass.

Index.