Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Note on Authorities
List of Symbols
Key to the Symbols Used in the Figures
Book I - The Treasurer’s Purview
1. The Church
2. Vessels, Instruments and Books
3. The Vestments
4. The Colour of the Vestments
Book II – Liturgical Gesture
5. Certain Common Ritual Actions
Book III – Low Mass
6. Preparation
7. To the Gospel
8. From the Gospel to the Preface
9. The Canon to the Communion
10. From the Ablutions to the End of Mass
11. Administration of Holy Communion
12. The Duties of the Clerk at Low Mass
Book IV - High Mass
13. Preparation
14. From the Entrance to the Collects
15. From the Collects to the Sequence
16. The Making of the Chalice
17. From the Gospel to the Offertory
18. From the Offertory to the Preface
19. The Canon to the Communion
20. From the Ablutions to the end of Mass
21. The Solemn Administration of Holy Communion
22. The Choir at High Mass
Book V - Special Forms of Mass
23. Mass for the Dead
24. Weddings and the Nuptial Mass
25. Missa Cantata
Book VI – Processions and Blessings
26. Processions
27. The Blessing of Bread on Sundays
Book VII – The Ritual Year
28. Advent and Christmas
29. Candlemas
30. Septuagesima and Lent
31. Ash Wednesday
32. Palm Sunday
33. Maundy Thursday
34. Good Friday
35. Holy Saturday
36. Eastertide
37. Summer and Autumn
Appendices
Appendix I: The Laity in Church
Appendix II: Form of Bidding of the Bedes
Appendix III: Ordo Missae with Simple Rubrics
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A complete overview and reconstruction of the ceremonies and rituals of the Sarum use of the Mass.

About the Author

Richard Urquhart teaches Classics at Oakham School in Rutland, UK.

Reviews

This book is both learned, in the best sense of that word, and fun! It is structured like O'Connell ... and shows you how to celebrate the Sarum Rite solemnly ... Sources are minutely footnoted, and a convincing account is given of the canonical status of this Rite. A volume which could change your life!
*New Liturgical Movement*

[T]his is a book that no serious scholar of the liturgy of the Latin Church would want to be without.
*Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal*

This is a massively important book which needs all the support it can get.
*Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment*

The unexpected value of Urquhart's work lies in the way it draws attention to the massive discrepancy between the imaginings of millions of tourists to English cathedrals and the issue of the symbolic orders they were built to enact in the late medieval period ... Perhaps the most astonishing facet of the study are the footnotes. These are plentiful but awesome in scale.
*Journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy*

This book is both learned, in the best sense of that word, and fun! It is structured like O’Connell ... and shows you how to celebrate the Sarum Rite solemnly. But also (this is far more difficult to reconstruct from the rubrics) how to “do Sarum” in the simple “Low Mass” way it must have been done every morning in churches and chantries all over England (and much of northern Europe). Sources are minutely footnoted, and a convincing account is given of the canonical status of this Rite. A volume which could change your life!
*THE REVD FR JOHN HUNWICKE, Independent Scholar, UK*

The use of Sarum, a sort of liturgical “dialect” within the Roman Rite, was noted for its processions, colourful splendour and elaborate ritual, spreading not only to much of mediæval England but to parts of Ireland and Portugal. It led Giles de Bridport to report in 1256 that “among the churches of the whole world, the church of Salisbury shines like the sun in full orb.” Although its legacy continues today, it remains a lost and much misunderstood part of our English Christian patrimony. In this volume, R.J. Urquhart unlocks its secrets and provides a practical guide, allowing us to picture how our forebears worshipped and inspiring us to celebrate the Sacred Liturgy worthily today.
*THE REVD FR NICHOLAS SCHOFIELD, Archivist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, UK*

The modern revival of the use of Sarum has been prevented not by religious principle, but by the sheer erudition required to perform the ceremonies. This book removes that obstacle. It constitutes both an invaluable reference tool for future scholarship and an indispensable vade mecum for all who wish to participate in this renaissance.
*CHRISTOPHER HODKINSON, Wyoming Catholic College, USA; Director Emeritus, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, UK*

Those who care about doing things "decently and in order" will find much here to ponder
*Anglican & Episcopal History*