Assembly: Notre Dame Center for Liturgy

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What is Assembly?

Assembly is a journal that addresses issues of liturgical import for ongoing formation. Assembly explores the relationship between Christian liturgy and Christian life. Currently edited by David W. Fagerberg, it is published six times a year by Liturgy Training Publications (LTP). If, as Sacrosanctum Concilium says, liturgy is the summit toward which the Church's activity flows and the fount of her power, then we understand liturgical life to be everything that leads up to and radiates from the action of Christ with his assembled body at the altar. In that case, these pages are interested not only in material about the eucharist, but about everything that leads to the eucharist and follows from it. Liturgy concerns everything in the life of the Church, in our personal lives, in the cosmos, and in human history. These pages include material about history and ritual and rubric, but liturgy is also about truth (catechesis, theology), beauty (spirituality, aesthetics) and goodness (asceticism, social justice).

Subscribing to Assembly

Assembly is published by Liturgy Training Publications (LTP), of Chicago. To order Assembly, visit the LTP web site.

Rates for single subscriptions (1 year/6 issues):

$15.00 (United States)
$17.00 (Canada)
$19.00 (Overseas)

Rates for multiple subscriptions (5 or more copies to same address):

$12.00 (U.S. only)

Back Issues

Back issues of Assembly are available from the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and from LTP, as indicated on the order form.

Review topics for and order previous issues of Assembly

Articles Online

Read the following Assembly articles online:

The Homily: Mark Searle, Vol. 7:2, November 1980
A Place in the Tradition: Mark Searle, Vol. 12:1, September 1985
The Reconciling Church: Barbara Schmich, Vol. 12:5, June 1986
The Song of Creation: Liturgy and Music: Nathan D. Mitchell, Vol. 16:5, August 1990
The Rituals of Dinner: Andrew Ciferni, O. Praem., Vol. 18:3, May 1992
Table Grace: Nathan D. Mitchell, Vol. 22:2, May 1996
Your Own Mystery: St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (+430 CE), Vol. 23:3, March 1997
The Vocation to the Priesthood: Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Vol. 34:1, January 2008