This book contains essays prepared for a 1989 lecture series at the Irish Institute for Pastoral Liturgy. They consider the status of liturgy 25 years after Sacrosanctum Concilium. The essays include: Local Church Reception of Conciliar Reform; Women in the Liturgical Assembly; Liturgy: Corporate Public Prayer; Eucharistic Praying and the Good of the Church; Liturgical Language: The Words of Faith; Contemplative Participation;

The essays are interesting an occasionally provocative but with the forecoming new liturgical documents and the decade since the confence, the material is becoming more historical and less a contemporary evaluation.