This classic work, previously edited by Ronald Jasper and Geoffrey Cuming, has been a staple source in teaching liturgy to generations of students in colleges, seminaries, and universities. It has now been comprehensively revised for future generations of liturgical scholars.Updates include:New introductions that take into account the substantial changes in recent scholarshipNew groupings of the various prayers into liturgical ';families' in order to make their relationships clearerPlus, new bibliographies