Launch of world-renowned theologian's book on the Mass

Spiritan priest and academic Tom Whelan launched Liam G Walsh's 'The Mass' with the subtitle, 'Yesterday, Today.... & Forever' at the Dominican Priory in Tallaght on Monday evening.

The evening was hosted by John Littleton, director at The Priory Institute.

Tom Whelan  sees the book as the result of prayer and rich scholarship and that one does not have to be versed in theology to read the book.

The blurb on the back of the book says that the purpose of the book is to help readers to a mindfulness about the Mass that takes them beyond seeing it as a holy ceremonial to be regulated by rubrics, beyond seeing it only in aesthetic terms, beyond making it a way of aligning themselves to 'progressive' or 'traditionalist' camps.

Liturgy, for all its humanity, is primarily God's doing. Thinking rightly about it requires thinking about what God is doing in it, the kind of thinking done in this book.

Fr Whelan noted how the author, Fr Liam Walsh brings us somewhere he has been himself.

The book is published by Dominican Publications.