RECOMMENDED READINGS

Second Vatican Council (Pope Paul VI), Sacrosanctum Concilium, 1963. http://www.adoremus.org/SacrosanctumConcilium.html

National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Built of Living Stones, 2000. http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/livingstonesind.shtml

De Botton, Alain, The Architecture of Happiness, Pantheon Books, New York 2006.

Poppeliers, John C., What Style Is It?, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington D.C. 1983

Johnson, Paul, A History of Christianity, Atheneum, New York 1976.

Chadwick, Owen, A History of Christianity, St. Martin's Press, New York 1995

Short, Earnest H., The House of God: A History of Religious Architecture & Symbolism, The MacMillan Company, New York 1926

Marucchi, Orazio, (Trans. by Vecchierello, Hubert), Manual of Christian Archeology, St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, NJ 1935

Scotti, Rita A., Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: The building of St. Peter's, Viking, New York 2006

Ryan, G. Thomas, The Sacristy Manual, Archdiocese of Chicago: Litergy Training Publications 1993

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone, Oxford University Press, 1997

Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph, (Trans. from the German original: Einfuehrung in den Geist der Liturgie), The Spirit of the Liturgy, Ignatius Press, Patterson, San Fransisco 2000

Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph, (Trans. from the German original: Das Fest des Glaubens), Feast of Faith: Approaches to a Theology of the Liturgy, Ignatius Press, Patterson, San Fransisco 1986