The Liturgical Year: The Time After Pentecost, Vol; I

The Liturgical Year #10

by Prosper Guéranger

Explore the Time After Pentecost with clarity and purpose.

This volume of The Liturgical Year reveals how the Church’s calendar moves beyond Pentecost into a rich period of feasts, mysteries, and spiritual formation. It explains the season’s place in the yearly cycle, how it unfolds, and why its rhythms matter for faith and practice.

In approachable, devotional prose, the book frames the Time after Pentecost as a time when the Holy Spirit deepens faith, increases holiness, and guides the life of the Church and the individual soul. It traces how the season builds on Christmas, Passiontide, and Easter, then leads to a mature expression of Christian life through prayer, doctrine, and liturgical action. The text also surveys how this period has been named and celebrated across history and why the current designation, The Time after Pentecost, reflects its enduring shape in Catholic liturgy.
What you’ll experienceA clear map of the season’s scope, structure, and duration within the liturgical yearAn explanation of how Pentecost and its continuation shape worship, doctrine, and spiritual growthInsight into holy Church as a living body governed by the Holy Spirit, with teachings on faith and sanctityConnections between the liturgy’s mysteries and daily Christian life Ideal for readers who want a solid, readable guide to the liturgical year and its after-Pentecost season, whether for study, devotion, or personal enrichment. This edition presents the concepts and history in plain language, helping you grasp how the season forms belief and practice year after year.

489 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1879

About the author

Dom Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger, Servant of God, was a Benedictine priest, abbot of Solesmes Abbey (which he founded in the disused priory of Solesmes) and founder of the French Benedictine Congregation (now the Solesmes Congregation). Dom Guéranger was the author of The Liturgical Year, which covers every day of the Catholic Church's Liturgical Cycle in 15 volumes. He was well regarded by Pope Pius IX, and was a proponent of the dogmas of papal infallibility and the Immaculate Conception. Dom Guéranger is credited with reviving the Benedictine Order in France, and revitalizing the Tridentine Mass.

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Reviews

[booklady · Rating 5 out of 5]

I did not realize that Corpus Christi used to be celebrated on Thursday. And what a celebration it was! The readings and lessons are beautiful. I saved them to read today so that I could be in sync with our Liturgical year.

[Raul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential to the spiritual life

Dom Prosper Gueranger provides considerable material for contemplation and preparation for Mass in each volume and especially this one. The time following Pentecost is anything but 'ordinary' as the author beautifully demonstrates.