The Paschal Mystery: Meditations on the Last Three Days of Holy Week

The Sacred Triduum is both source and zenith of the Catholic liturgical year. In this illuminating volume, Louis Bouyer explains the liturgies of the last three days of Holy Week, their storied history, rich symbolism, and profound spiritual power—underscoring the ultimate reality of the Paschal Mystery as the Mystical Body of Christ’s participation in the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Describing his study as both eminently practical and basically biblical, Bouyer draws forth an understanding of the liturgy as “the life reflected in the pages of the Bible, concretized in a devotional action,” and the rites and ceremonies of the Triduum as the celebration par excellence of the living mystery of salvation.

First published two decades before the Second Vatican Council, The Paschal Mystery: Meditations on the Last Three Days of Holy Week continues to be a source of insight and inspiration for both the preaching and the reception of the Gospel.

Paperback, 404 pages.