Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy Stationery Gloria: "Very few people give

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John Cassian will teach you the true way to moderation and self-control

it follows that if we wish to grow in love of God—the goal of all spiritual striving—we will give Mary a corresponding place in our soul-life

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Annibale Bugnini: Reformer of the Liturgy Stationery Gloria: "Very few people giveFrench historian Yves Chiron turns his attention to Annibale Bugnini, guiding spirit of liturgical reform in the period surrounding the Second Vatican Council. Highly controversial in his day, and down to the present, Bugnini has attracted high praise from his disciples and vilification from his critics. Yet who was Bugnini, really? What were his formative experiences, personal ideals, intellectual assumptions, practical aims? How did he accomplish so