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Are you longing for deeper reverence and understanding at Mass? Journey through 14 lessons and rediscover the greatest prayer of the Church.
Instructors: Mº Aurelio Porfiri with Bishop Athanasius Schneider and guests
We are living in a time of liturgical exile, says Bishop Athanasius Schneider—a moment marked by confusion, forgetfulness, and even abuse in the way we celebrate the Holy Mass. This 14-lesson course, inspired by The Catholic Mass, invites you to recover what has been lost: the awe, beauty, and transcendent meaning of the Church’s greatest treasure.
Each lesson will take you deep into one essential aspect of the Roman Rite, restoring a sense of reverence and wonder. With clarity and authority, Bishop Schneider and co-author Aurelio Porfiri reveal the profound truth that the Mass is the highest form of Christian prayer, not simply a gathering, but a sacred encounter with the divine.
Through this course, you will:
Understand why precise rubrics are not empty ritualism but protect the sacred mystery
Discover how architecture, chant, incense, and sacred art orient us toward Heaven
Learn the importance of silence, recollection, and active interior participation
Grasp the theological and spiritual meaning of ad orientem celebration
Explore how gestures like kneeling and genuflecting are acts of faith and humility
Be introduced to the richness of Eucharistic adoration and the Liturgy of the Hours
Whether you're a priest, religious, liturgical minister, or lay faithful longing to deepen your love for the Mass, this course will help you recover a liturgical spirituality rooted in tradition, beauty, and truth.
Join us in these 14 powerful lessons to rediscover what the Church has always known: the Mass is Heaven on earth.
The Catholic Mass by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, coauthored with Aurelio Porfiri, is a powerful call to rediscover the sacredness of the liturgy. Translated into more than 10 languages and with thousands of copies sold worldwide, this acclaimed book has become a key reference for those seeking a deeper understanding of the Roman Rite. With clarity and spiritual depth, it defends the beauty of tradition and explains why the Mass is the highest form of Christian prayer. A vital resource for clergy and laity alike, it invites readers to approach the liturgy with renewed reverence, wonder, and love.
“The liturgy is not about us, but about God,” Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in 2004. This is never truer than in respect of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: it is God’s work, not ours―even if by the grace of Baptism we are privileged participants in its salvific action.
Bishop Schneider’s profound reverence for the Mass and the Blessed Eucharist grew out of his experience of their deprivation in persecution. If we can imbibe even a little of the faith and love out which this book has emerged, we will not only understand why restoring the centrality of God to the liturgy is essential, we shall ourselves take up this necessary work without further delay.
Card. Robert Sarah
Liturgy is at the core of our life as Catholics. We have received this great gift from God, our Creator, that gives us the opportunity to praise Him in beautful rites, prayers and songs, throughout the beautiful ceremonies that the Church has to preserve for the good of her faithful. This book by Bishop Athanasius Schneider, coadiuvated by M° Aurelio Porfiri, it is a great resource to rediscover the beauty of the Mass and to warn us of the many abuses that the liturgy of the Church has to suffer in too many churches around the world. It is a book that make us think about what we may have and also what we may have lost.
Card. Joseph Zen
This book proclaims a message that all of us need to hear. And it's this: To live with our lives centered on God is the only safe way to live. We do this most fully when we pray the Mass with deep reverence, whose every detail proclaims God's greatness and mercy. Bishop Athanasius Schneider draws abundantly from Sacred Scripture, the saints, and Doctors of the Church. Reading and pondering this book will be transformative and unitive.
Scott Hahn
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