Feb 2, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life and work of Fr. Adrian Fortescue. The brilliant Fr. Adrian Fortescue contributed a great deal to 20th Century Catholic understanding of the liturgy. Mr. Michael Davies discusses his life and works introducing his series on the basic or "parent" rites of the Church. Taken from:...

Feb 2, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Mass in the first three centuries. There are intervening periods of "light" and "darkness" regarding our knowledge of the development of the liturgy of the Mass in the first three hundred years of Church History. Mr. Michael Davies speaks here of what we know, do not know, and...

Feb 2, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the history of the Parent Rites, specifically the Antiochian Rite of the Mass. Syria, with the great metropolis of Antioch, from which emerged men like St. John Chrysostom, was one of the great early centers of Christianity. Mr. Michael Davies treats here of the liturgy coming from its...

Feb 2, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Alexandrian and Gallican rites. Two distinct centers of liturgical importance are examined in this lecture by Mr. Michael Davies: those of Alexandria in Egypt, with its "multicultural" Greek and Coptic Church, and of Merovingian/Carolingian Gaul, the "cauldron" of western...

Feb 2, 2023

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the history of the Parent Rites, specifically the Roman Rite of the Mass. Sources for the history of the Roman Rite of Mass are both complex and numerous. Mr. Michael Davies, a great expert on that Rite and modern distortions regarding its development, treats here of the reality of its...