Paul Turner offers us a concise and accessible guide to the post-Vatican II eucharistic liturgy, replete with a great deal of historical information. This book should provide an excellent guide for parish liturgy committees and anyone interested in gaining a fuller understanding of what we do when we come together for Eucharist.<br /> John F. Baldovin, SJ, Boston College School of Theology & Ministry

Using the question `Whose Mass is it?' Paul Turner uncovers the skein of relationships that give people, from the local sacristan to the curial officials of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, a sense of ownership of the Mass. The number of stakeholders is more than most of us imagine, and the relationships between stakeholders are not always easy. Turner invites each stakeholder to recognize the others. He acknowledges the challenges brought on by change, conflicts won and lost, familial tensions heightened-and sometimes resolved-and gifts many and varied shared, neglected, or rejected. With great scholarly erudition and even greater pastoral wisdom, Turner charts a path of mutual recognition that invites each of us to recognize that the liturgy ultimately belongs to Christ, the center who holds both the liturgy and all of us together.<br /> Bernadette Gasslein, Editor, <i>Worship</i>

"A valuable tool for priests, staff, and liturgy committee; a good review of what we can do, should do, and should not do."Eliot Kapitan, Diocese of Springfield in Illinois