Lumen Ecclesiae
Light of the Church
Monday · 9 November · Ordinary Time, Week 29
Index Operis
The Treasury
Hora · I
Liturgy of the Hours
The Church’s daily round of prayer, sanctifying the hours from Matins to Compline.
→Sacrificium · IIThe Holy Mass
The Ordinary and Traditional forms of the one Sacrifice, traced rite by rite.
→Tempus · IIIThe Sacred Calendar
Seasons, feasts, and ferias — the year unfolding in colour and rank.
→Ars · IVSacred Art & Architecture
Icon, mosaic, manuscript, and stone — the Church made visible.
→Thesaurus · VThe Encyclopedia
An illustrated lexicon of the vessels, vestments, and objects of worship.
→Antiquitas · VIThe Mass of the Ages
The venerable Roman Rite as handed down — its rubrics, gestures, and silence.
→“Liturgia enim, per quam, maxime in divino Eucharistiæ Sacrificio, opus nostræ redemptionis exercetur, summe confert ut fideles vivendo exprimant…”
Sacrosanctum Concilium · §10