... understanding of liturgy in a small handful of literary, theoretical, and philosophical writings of the twentieth century. Anyone who works on liturgical culture for a certain length of time risks adopting the conviction that liturgy is the key to all mythologies, invested with a unique explanatory power...

...- cated among Christian schoolmen, notably Gratian (ca. 1140) and his subsequent glossators (Hartmann and Pennington 2008), with dialectic technologies similar to those used by Rashi. My third body is the corpus of a divine office composed for the newly inaugurated liturgical feast...

... between yourselves. But his question eats at you all night. You mentally browse the names and numbers of connec- tions, recalling them all with liturgical ease. When you get home later, Mira is crying in the bedroom, talking to someone on her phone. You stand in the hallway, loitering outside...