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Liturgy for the People of God: A Trilogy, Volume Two: The Celebration of the Eucharist is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Celebration of the Eucharist, Charles Edward Miller deals with the Mass as a celebration of the Christian community. He speaks of the four ways in which Christ is present during the liturgy, outlines the eight elements in the Eucharistic Prayer and their corresponding eight steps to holiness, and follows with a complete study of the Mass—from the Introductory Rites to the Dismissal. ...

fulfilled the paschal mystery of his death and resurrection: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” The four eucharistic acclamations which we currently employ in English express the fact which we celebrate (“Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again”), the meaning of what we celebrate (“Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life” and “Lord, by your cross and resurrection you have set us free”), and how we participate in what we celebrate (“When we eat
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