Fr., Bless !

Thank you for posting this. After reading this thread, I will have to investigate Fr. Taft's book.

Today is Father Archimandrite Robert's 77th birthday; he is this week staying at Saint Josaphat's Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Seminary, doing something at the Catholic University of America.

I had an e-mail from him this afternoon, and it gave me no reason at all to think that he has left the Catholic Church or is even considering such a step.

Fr. Serge

What is the title of the new book, and whom has published it?

Robert Taft: A History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Volume VI: The Communion, Thanksgiving, and Concluding Rites, Orientale Christiana Analecta, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome.

Fr. Serge

Rejoice with me! Father Taft's new volume has finally arrived in Dublin! Judging by the postal indications, it had quite a roundabout trip, with lengthy pauses for R & R along the way.

But then, when Bishop (now Metropolitan) Kallistos and Mother Mary's Lenten Triodion was published by Faber, there was a strike on which prevented shipments of the book by boat - and Lent was fast approaching. So I telephoned the bookshop at Westminster Cathedral, had them send me a dozen copies by air, pro-rated the cost of air shipment among the books, and my friends were queuing up to buy them. Nobody else had them in North America that Lent.

Fr. Serge