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The final volume in the Handbook for Liturgical Studies series, Liturgical Time and Space opens with a preliminary notion of time and space, before discussing in detail three types of liturgical celebrations on which time and space have a direct and particular bearing. The first of these is the Liturgy of the Hours. This topic is developed in the light of the early Christian tradition until the...

3) The Liturgy of the Hours and the mystery of the Church: Intimately united to the mystery of Christ and to its soteriological dimension, the Liturgy of the Hours becomes part of the mystery of the Church, viz., its particular expression and manifestation. The Church, inasmuch as it is the “universal sacrament of salvation” (LG 48), is called to continue the work of Christ in being a praying community, identified with the praying Christ, who in the Church and through her continues exercising his
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