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Publications

Two major resources and the books listed below are published by the Center:

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).

Former editors of Assembly include Nathan Mitchell, Mark Searle and John Leonard. Some Assembly articles are available to read online and a full list of Assembly Back Issues can be found online. Back issues are also arranged thematically in the Assembly Packets. Use the online NDCL Order Form to get printed back issues from the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.

Liturgy Digest, by Nathan D. Mitchell, is a resource designed for educators, liturgists, pastoral ministers, students and clergy who want to keep abreast of developments in the liturgical field and related disciplines.

A total of seven issues are available for purchase (Volume 1:1 is no longer available) using the online NDCL Order Form. Topics include ritual studies, women's contributions, liturgy and the arts, ritual studies and the social sciences, liturgy and aesthetics, liturgy and the arts, liturgy and culture, the language of metaphor, and the eucharist.

NDCL Books

Two books are available from the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy and can be ordered using the online NDCL Order Form:

Made, Not Born
Murphy Center for Liturgical Research. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976, 183 pages, $8.00.
Eight chapters, each written by a different scholar, examine the historical development of Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. The material is extremely useful, especially to those new to or unfamiliar with this rite.
Table, Bread and Cup: Selections from Assembly
Edited by Nathan D. Mitchell, art by Jane Pitz. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2000, 53 pages, $10.95.