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	"title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I",
	"subtitle": "Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained",
	"fullTitle": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained",
	"status": "published",
	"contributors": [
		{
			"name": "Rev. Dr. Nicholas Gihr",
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	"summary": "The full case that the Mass is a true sacrifice, and the reason behind everything at the altar, written by a priest for priests.",
	"description": "Every Catholic has heard that the Mass is a sacrifice. Dr. Nicholas Gihr wrote this book to show why that is true, and to show a priest what he is doing when he stands at the altar. Book One is the argument. It begins with what a sacrifice is at all, follows the question through the offerings of the Old Law to the Cross, and then proves that the Mass is that same sacrifice offered without blood: from Melchisedech’s bread and wine, from the clean oblation foretold by Malachias, from the present tense of the words at the Last Supper, and from the Fathers and the ancient liturgies. Gihr is just as exact about what the Mass obtains. He sorts out the fruit that goes to the whole Church, the fruit for those who are present, the fruit for the priest, and the fruit a priest applies by intention, and he explains why the Church says many Masses for one soul and why a High Mass obtains more than a low one.\n\nThe first chapter of Book Two completes this volume and walks up to the altar: why it must be stone and what lies sealed inside it, how it is dressed, the chalice and its linens, the six vestments and the virtue each one asks of the man who puts it on, the five liturgical colors, the wax candles, and a long defense of Latin as the language of the Mass. Each answer comes with the Church’s own prayers and decrees in hand.\n\nGihr wrote for priests and arranged the book so that an educated layman could read it with profit. This is the first of two volumes. Volume II goes through the rite itself.",
	"categories": [
		"Liturgy and Sacraments",
		"Theology and Doctrine"
	],
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		"alt": "Cover of The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I, showing The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by Hubert and Jan van Eyck"
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		"title": "The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained",
		"year": 1902,
		"publisher": "B. Herder",
		"place": "St. Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau",
		"language": "English",
		"note": "Set from the 1902 English translation of the sixth German edition, published by B. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau and St. Louis."
	},
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	"published": "2026-09-16",
	"updated": "2026-10-22",
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