{"product_id":"15","title":"The Liturgical Year, Vol. 15: Time After Pentecost VI — All Saints, All Souls \u0026 the Close of the Liturgical Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComplete the Church’s liturgical year with All Saints, All Souls, the great feasts of November, and a final meditation on eternity before Advent begins anew.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume 15 of \u003cem\u003eThe Liturgical Year\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003eTime After Pentecost, Book VI\u003c\/strong\u003e—the final volume of the monumental fifteen-volume series begun by Dom Prosper Guéranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCovering the Church calendar from \u003cstrong\u003eNovember 1 through November 30\u003c\/strong\u003e, this volume begins with two of the most profound days of the Catholic year: the triumphant celebration of \u003cstrong\u003eAll Saints’ Day\u003c\/strong\u003e and the solemn commemoration of \u003cstrong\u003eAll Souls’ Day\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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The following day, \u003cstrong\u003eAll Souls’ Day\u003c\/strong\u003e, directs that same gaze toward the faithful departed still awaiting the fullness of heavenly glory and reminds Catholics of their duty of prayer and charity toward the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese opening feasts give Volume 15 a particularly powerful spiritual theme: \u003cstrong\u003ethe Four Last Things, the Communion of Saints, and the Christian’s final destination in eternity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs November continues, the reader encounters a remarkable procession of saints from throughout Church history—bishops, martyrs, mystics, popes, apostles, virgins, and religious—each presented through the prayers and worship of the traditional Catholic liturgy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong them is \u003cstrong\u003eSt. Martin of Tours\u003c\/strong\u003e, one of the great missionary bishops of the early Western Church; \u003cstrong\u003eSt. Gertrude the Great\u003c\/strong\u003e, renowned for her profound mystical spirituality; \u003cstrong\u003eSt. Cecilia\u003c\/strong\u003e, the beloved virgin and martyr; and \u003cstrong\u003eSt. Catherine of Alexandria\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose courage and learning made her one of the most celebrated martyrs of Christian antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume also gives special attention to the \u003cstrong\u003ePresentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary\u003c\/strong\u003e and the great Roman basilicas, revealing how the Church’s calendar preserves not only the lives of her saints but the history, sacred places, and traditions of Catholic civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, on \u003cstrong\u003eNovember 30\u003c\/strong\u003e, the series arrives at \u003cstrong\u003eSt. Andrew the Apostle\u003c\/strong\u003e. Dom Guéranger’s collaborators describe this feast as fittingly standing at the end of the old liturgical cycle or the beginning of the new one. The Cross that marked St. Andrew’s martyrdom becomes a fitting final image before the Church once again turns toward Advent and awaits the coming of Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this way, Volume 15 does more than conclude another collection of saints’ days—it \u003cstrong\u003ebrings the entire liturgical journey full circle\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Advent in Volume 1, \u003cem\u003eThe Liturgical Year\u003c\/em\u003e has carried the reader through the birth of Christ, Septuagesima, Lent, the Passion, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost, and the long life of the Church afterward. 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