Set: The Davies Liturgical Revolution Series

Michael Davies

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Michael Davies' monumental Mass Trilogy.

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Cranmer's Godly Order

Liturgical Revolution: Vol. I

Michael Davies shows that Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer understood that if you change the way people pray, then you will change what they believe. Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer (1549) began a process that changed the Catholic Church in England to the Anglican sect. Davies compares these changes to the modern liturgical "reforms" and the similarities are shocking.

Cranmer's Godly Order is a classic...revised and expanded by Mr. Davies during his final years. Drawing upon the best of Catholic and Protestant scholarship and on primary sources, Davies traces the steps by which the ancient Catholic Mass became the Lord's Supper in the Church of England. And these steps were changes - as Popes and Reformers alike were at pains to stress.

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI and architect of the new liturgy, was a master of the theology of the Mass, and hated it. The parallels between the Anglican liturgy and the New Mass of the 1960s will be uncomfortably obvious!

Pope John's Council

Liturgical Revolution: Vol. II

For those who have read it, it is already a classic. Few books can rival its clarity and objectivity. An incredible pattern emerges: a pastoral Council hijacked by a clique of theological liberals who consign to the trash the documents of the Council Preparatory Committee (of which Archbishop Lefebvre was a member), shut off the microphones of those who attempt to defend the Faith (suffering this indignity was no less than the illustrious Cardinal Ottaviani), and co-opting the media so that their spin became "reality"?

Pope Paul's New Mass

Liturgical Revolution: Vol. III

It is the unparalleled history of how the New Mass was devised, created, and implemented. Beyond this, a list of the manifold liturgical problems of the past generation is documented: from Mass facing the people and revolutionary legislation to Communion in the hand and the problem of the Offertory. For over thirty years this book has been considered the most thorough critique of the New Mass in the English language. Michael Davies, former president of Una Voce, was one of the earliest critics of the liturgical changes in the Mass after Vatican II. Archbishop Lefebvre recommended many of his early works, including the most comprehensive documentation and defense of the foundation of the SSPX: Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre (in three volumes). 

By the mid-1970s the crisis within the Church was deepening. In his general research on the various novelties that were being introduced he had amassed a huge amount of data on the Council and how the great majority of the Fathers had been deceived by the well-orchestrated plan of a clique of European bishops and their liturgical advisers. Michael Davies argued that the Church's attempted headlong rush into unity with other Christian bodies would, in fact, have the adverse effect to that being proclaimed and was leading swiftly to its decline.

3-Volumes. Hardcover.

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Colin D'Souza
The future Pope Benedict XVI on Michael Davies

I have been profoundly touched by the news of the death of Michael Davies. I had the good fortune to meet him several times and I found him as a man of deep faith and ready to embrace suffering. Ever since the Council he put all his energy into the service of the Faith and left us important publications especially about the Sacred Liturgy. Even though he suffered from the Church in many ways in his time, he always truly remained a man of the Church. He knew that the Lord founded His Church on the rock of St Peter and that the Faith can find its fullness and maturity only in union with the successor of St Peter. Therefore we can be confident that the Lord opened wide for him the gates of heaven. We commend his soul to the Lord‘s mercy.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Letter to Mr Julian Chadwick, Chairman, The Latin Mass Society, 9th November 2004.

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Stephen S
Stunning, factual, well written

I am half way through the first volume and I am stunned. The writing is so lucid and the facts so clear. Anyone interested in the liturgical upheaval we have experienced needs to read this series! The background beginning with the Protestant revolt is very helpful. It’s not enough to get worked up over what happened in the 20th century. It needs context. The Mass has always been the target!

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Greg Goode
Historical

A must read to understand the current crisis.

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Colin D'Souza
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on the magnificent works of Michael Davies

You can read the books of Michael Davies…who has written magnificent works which demonstrate how the liturgical reform of Vatican II closely resembles that produced under Cranmer at the birth of English Protestantism.
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Jubilee Sermon on the Fiftieth Anniversary of his priesthood, September 23rd 1979.

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Thomas

Good quality