Words Fitly Spoken
Language in the Liturgy: Past, Present, Future by Barry Spurr
The future of the liturgy, and the language that is used in it . . . belongs to the young. The generations, now passing, that have been busy destroying it . . . are mostly now in their dotage, while the architects of and participants in Vatican Two are dead. (Barry Spurr, Language in the Liturgy, 338)
This somber assessment of the state of vernacular liturgy in the Western churches is the context within which this extraordinary book has been written.
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John I. Fleming Ph.D., is a retired Australian academic who served as Sessional Lecturer at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in Melbourne, Victoria, until 2017. He has served on many federal and state government policy advisory committees in Australia and is a member of the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists. He is author of eleven books and many articles on bioethics.
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