Work of Human Hands

Work of Human Hands is destined to be a classic of contemporary Catholic thought. Father Cekada’s in-depth study of the New Mass will help drive the on-going debate about the Church’s liturgical destiny. Scholarly in scope and analysis, but popularly styled and geared to expert and layman alike. .

Work of Human Hands:
A Theological Critique of the Mass of Paul VI
by Rev. Anthony Cekada

Interest in the traditional Latin Mass has begun to spread among a younger generation of clergy and laity, especially since the appearance of Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.

Many now speak enthusiastically of encountering in the old rite a beauty, a reverence, and a sense of continuity with tradition that they have not experienced with the Mass of Paul VI, the liturgical norm since it first appeared in 1969.

Inevitably, however, questions deeper than aesthetics, nostalgia and the hunger for mystery in religion arise. To address them, Father Cekada has produced this thorough and methodical study of the Mass of Paul VI.

Father Cekada’s erudition, clarity of expression, and facile wit will draw and delight readers, even some who might be quite opposed to his doctrinal positions and to his startling conclusions in this scholarly work.

Rev. Anthony Cekada was ordained to the priesthood in 1977 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He offers the traditional Latin Mass in the greater Cincinnati area and teaches liturgy and canon law at Most Holy Trinity Seminary in Brooksville, Florida. He is the author of the definitive English translation of The Ottaviani Intervention.


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